ΛΟΙΜΟΙ, λοιμοι
LOIMOI, loimoi
Sounds Like: LOY-moy
Translations: pestilence, plague, a plague, scoundrels, wicked men, a pest
From the root: ΛΟΙΜΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a plague or pestilence, often a destructive disease. In a figurative sense, it can also describe a 'pest' or 'scoundrel' – a destructive or wicked person, as seen in the provided examples where it refers to 'wicked men' or 'pests' who cause trouble. It is used to describe both literal afflictions and troublesome individuals.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3061 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 3:1
Codex Sinaiticus
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Samuel — 2:12, 10:27
- 2 Chronicles — 13:7
- 1 Maccabees — 10:61, 15:3, 15:21
- Isaiah — 5:14
- Ezekiel — 30:11, 31:12, 32:12
- Amos — 4:2
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Luke — 21:11
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΛΟΙΜΟΣ.
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.
- ΛΟΙΜΑ — plague, pestilence, a plague, a pestilence, destruction, ruin, a destructive person, a scoundrel
- ΛΟΙΜΑΝΗ — plague, pestilence, a plague, a pestilence
- ΛΟΙΜΗΝ — plague, pestilence, a plague, a pestilence, a disease, a pest, a scoundrel
- ΛΟΙΜΙΚΗ — pestilential, plague-ridden, deadly, a pestilential (disease)
- ΛΟΙΜΙΚΟΝ — pestilential, plague-like, deadly, a pestilential thing
- ΛΟΙΜΙΚΟΣ — pestilential, pestilent, plague-bearing, plague-stricken
- ΛΟΙΜΟ — plague, pestilence, disease, destructive person, a plague, a pestilence, (of) a plague, (of) a pestilence
- ΛΟΙΜΟΙΣ — (to) plagues, (to) pestilences, (to) diseases
- ΛΟΙΜΟΝ — pestilence, plague, a plague, scoundrel, pest, a pest
- ΛΟΙΜΟΣ — plague, pestilence, a pest, a scoundrel, a troublemaker
- ΛΟΙΜΟΤΕΡΟΥΣ — more pestilent, more plague-ridden, more destructive, more harmful
- ΛΟΙΜΟΥ — of pestilence, of plague, of disease, of a plague, of a disease
- ΛΟΙΜΟΥΣ — plagues, pestilences, diseases, epidemics
- ΛΟΙΜΩ — (to) pestilence, (to) plague, (to) disease, (to) destruction, (to) ruin, (to) a pestilent fellow, (to) a scoundrel, (to) a plague
- ΛΟΙΜΩΝ — of plagues, of pestilences, of destructive people, of scoffers, of wicked men
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