2001 Translation

MOLIS, molis

Sounds Like: MOH-lees

Translations: with difficulty, scarcely, hardly, barely, just, only just

From the root: ΜΟΛΙΣ

Part of Speech: Adverb

Explanation: This word is an adverb that indicates something is done with great effort or difficulty, or that it happens only just in time or to a very limited extent. It can convey the idea of something barely happening or being achieved. For example, 'he barely escaped' or 'they arrived only just'.

Inflection: Does not inflect

Strong’s number: G3433 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:103, 1:175

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:30

Codex Sinaiticus

• Proverbs — 11:31
• Sirach — 21:20, 26:29, 29:6, 32:7
• Acts of the Apostles — 14:18, 27:7, 27:8, 27:16
• 1 Peter — 4:18

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 2:10, 2:14, 4:22, 12:66

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 3:90
• Book 5 — 1:99
• Book 6 — 11:241, 14:338
• Book 7 — 8:189
• Book 8 — 4:100, 14:377
• Book 11 — 6:241
• Book 13 — 13:375
• Book 14 — 1:14, 4:62, 11:292, 14:377
• Book 15 — 4:107, 7:251
• Book 16 — 10:350
• Book 19 — 1:77, 1:152
• Book 20 — 12:265

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 5:8, 5:14, 8:9, 12:13, 12:17, 15:7, 24:8, 26:13, 34:9
• Book Two — 1:11, 18:42, 19:32
• Book Four — 1:30, 1:55, 4:48, 5:36
• Book Five — 5:1, 7:5, 7:18, 11:21
• Book Six — 1:90, 3:36, 5:7, 5:23, 5:24
• Book Seven — 2:8, 3:19, 4:10, 7:29, 8:59, 8:124

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 34:173

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 3 Maccabees — 1:23, 5:15
• Proverbs — 11:31
• Wisdom — 9:16
• Sirach — 21:20, 26:29, 29:6, 35:7

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 14:18, 27:7, 27:8, 27:16
• Romans — 5:7
• 1 Peter — 4:18

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΟΛΙΣ.

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.

• ΜΟΛΙΣΔ' — scarcely, hardly, barely, with difficulty, just, only just

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