ΜΙΣΘΟΦΟΡΟΙΣ, μισθοφοροις
MISTHOPHOROIS, misthophorois
Sounds Like: mis-tho-FO-roys
Translations: to mercenaries, for mercenaries
From the root: ΜΙΣΘΟΦΟΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to hired soldiers or mercenaries. It is a compound word derived from 'μισθός' (misthos), meaning 'wages' or 'pay', and 'φέρω' (pherō), meaning 'to bear' or 'to carry'. Thus, it literally means 'wage-bearers' or 'those who carry wages'. It is used to describe professional soldiers who fight for pay rather than for loyalty to a specific nation or cause.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3401 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 5:9
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΙΣΘΟΦΟΡΟΣ.
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.
- ΜΙΣΘΟΦΟΡΟΙ — mercenaries, hired soldiers
- ΜΙΣΘΟΦΟΡΟΣ — hireling, a hireling, mercenary, a mercenary, hired servant, a hired servant, hired man, a hired man, hired
- ΜΙΣΘΟΦΟΡΟΥΣ — mercenaries, a mercenary, hired soldiers, hired men
- ΜΙΣΘΟΦΟΡΩΝ — of mercenaries, of hired soldiers, of hired servants
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