ΛΕΟΝΤΕΣ, λεοντες
LEONTES, leontes
Sounds Like: LEH-on-tes
Translations: lions, a lion
From the root: ΛΕΩΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a lion, a large carnivorous feline mammal. In Koine Greek, it is often used literally to refer to the animal, but can also be used metaphorically to describe someone or something with characteristics associated with lions, such as strength, ferocity, or courage. The form ΛΕΟΝΤΕΣ is the plural form of the noun.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3023 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Jeremiah — 28:38
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Kings — 7:16, 7:22, 10:19, 10:20
- 2 Chronicles — 9:18, 9:19
- 4 Maccabees — 16:3
- Isaiah — 5:29
- Jeremiah — 2:15, 27:17, 28:38
- Ezekiel — 22:25
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 6:24, 14:32
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 6:23, 6:24, 14:31
- Zephaniah — 3:3
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΛΕΩΝ.
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.
- ΛΕΟΝ — lion, a lion
- ΛΕΟΝΤΑ — lion, a lion
- ΛΕΟΝΤΑΙΣ — to a lion, for a lion, by a lion, with a lion
- ΛΕΟΝΤΑΣ — lion, a lion
- ΛΕΟΝΤΙ — (to) a lion, (to) the lion
- ΛΕΟΝΤΙΝΟΝ — lion-like, of a lion, a lion's skin, a lion's hide
- ΛΕΟΝΤΟΣ — of a lion, of the lion
- ΛΕΟΝΤΩ — of lions, to lions
- ΛΕΟΝΤΩΝ — of lions
- ΛΕΟΤΑ — lions
- ΛΕΟΤΕΣ — lions
- ΛΕΟΤΟΣ — of a lion, of the lion
- ΛΕΟΤΩΝ — of a lion, of lions
- ΛΕΟΥΣΙ — to lions, for lions
- ΛΕΟΥΣΙΝ — lions, to lions, for lions
- ΛΕΩΝ — lion, a lion
- ΛΙΟΝ — lion, a lion
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