ΜΑΝΤΕΙΑΙΣ, μαντειαις
MANTEIAIS, manteiais
Sounds Like: man-TEH-ee-aiss
Translations: (to) divination, (to) oracles, (to) prophecies
From the root: ΜΑΝΤΕΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the act or practice of divination, or the oracles and prophecies that result from it. It describes the means by which one attempts to gain knowledge of the future or the unknown through supernatural means. It is used in the dative case, indicating the indirect object or the means by which something is done.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3132 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 18 — 6:223
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΑΝΤΕΙΑ.
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.
- ΜΑΝΤΕΙΑ — divination, soothsaying, oracle, a divination
- ΜΑΝΤΕΙΑΙ — divinations, prophecies, oracles, a divination, a prophecy, an oracle
- ΜΑΝΤΕΙΑΝ — divination, a divination, oracle, soothsaying
- ΜΑΝΤΕΙΑΣ — of divination, of soothsaying, of prophecy, of an oracle
- ΜΑΝΤΕΙΩΝ — of divination, of oracles, of soothsaying, of prophecies
- ΜΑΝΤΙΑΙ — divinations, prophecies, oracles, soothsayings
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