ΜΕΙΡΑΚΙΑ, μειρακια
MEIRAKIA, meirakia
Sounds Like: mei-RA-kee-ah
Translations: youths, young men, boys, lads
From the root: ΜΕΙΡΑΚΙΟΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to young people, specifically boys or young men, typically in their adolescence or early youth. It is often used to describe a group of youths. It is a compound word, though its exact etymology is debated.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G3371 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:72
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
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, ΜΕΙΡΑΚΙΟΝ.
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.
- ΜΕΙΡ — youth, young man, boy, lad, a youth, a young man, a boy, a lad
- ΜΕΙΡΑΚΙΟΙΣ — to young men, to youths, to boys
- ΜΕΙΡΑΚΙΟΝ — youth, young man, a youth, a young man, lad, boy
- ΜΕΙΡΑΚΙΟΝΤΙ — (to) a youth, (to) a young man, (to) a lad
- ΜΕΙΡΑΚΙΟΥ — of a youth, of a lad, of a boy, of a young man
- ΜΕΙΡΑΚΙΩ — (to) a young man, (to) a boy, (to) a youth
- ΜΕΙΡΑΚΙΩΝ — of young men, of youths, of boys
- ΜΙΡΑΚΙΣΚΟΣ — young man, a young man, youth, a youth, lad, a lad
- ΤΑΜΕΙΡΑΚΙΑ — boys, lads, youths, young men
- ΤΩΝΜΕΙΡΑΚΙΩΝ — (of) young men, (of) youths, (of) lads
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