ΛΕΙΑΝ, λειαν
LEIAN, leian
Sounds Like: LEI-an
Translations: smooth, level, plain, a smooth place
From the root: ΛΕΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is smooth, level, or plain, without roughness or unevenness. It can refer to a physical surface or a general state of being unhindered. For example, it could describe a smooth road or a calm sea.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3006 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:76
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 10:182, 19:302
- Book 2 — 14:307
- Book 4 — 5:93, 5:99, 7:162, 7:163, 7:164, 7:170
- Book 5 — 1:21, 1:62, 1:96, 2:167, 6:210, 8:263, 8:267, 8:294
- Book 6 — 5:80, 6:120, 7:151, 13:271, 13:323, 13:324, 14:356
- Book 8 — 12:294
- Book 9 — 9:191, 12:245, 12:247
- Book 12 — 7:287, 8:353
- Book 13 — 5:179, 7:101, 12:337
- Book 17 — 10:274
- Book 20 — 4:80
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 46:3
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΛΕΙΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΛΕΙΑΣ — smooth, level, even, a smooth, a level, an even
- ΛΕΙΟΙ — smooth, level, flat, polished
- ΛΕΙΟΝ — smooth, level, plain, a smooth thing, a level thing, a plain thing
- ΛΕΙΟΣ — smooth, level, soft, plain
- ΛΕΙΟΤΑΤΟΥ — of the smoothest, of the very smooth
- ΛΕΙΟΤΗΤΑ — smoothness, evenness, levelness
- ΛΕΙΩΣ — smooth, level, even, a smooth, a level
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