Redirected from μοχλουϲ, replacing lunate sigma Ϲϲ with normal sigma Σσ/ς.
ΜΟΧΛΟΥΣ, μοχλους
MOCHLOUS, mochlous
Sounds Like: MOKH-loos
Translations: bars, bolts, levers, crowbars
From the root: ΜΟΧΛΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a bar, bolt, or lever, often used for securing gates or doors, or as a tool for prying or moving heavy objects. In the provided context, it is used in the plural, referring to multiple such objects, likely in the sense of fortifications or implements of destruction.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3429 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 11:4
Codex Sinaiticus
- 2 Esdras — 13:3, 13:6, 13:14
- 1 Maccabees — 12:38
- Psalms — 106:16, 147:2
- Sirach — 49:13
- Isaiah — 45:2
- Lamentations — 2:9
- Nahum — 3:13
- Epistle of Barnabas — 11:4
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 6 — 13:273
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 26:26, 26:27, 26:29, 35:10, 38:18, 39:14, 40:16
- Numbers — 3:36, 4:31
- 2 Chronicles — 14:7
- Nehemiah — 3:3, 3:6, 3:13, 3:14
- 1 Maccabees — 12:38
- Psalms — 106:16, 147:2
- Sirach — 49:13
- Isaiah — 45:2
- Lamentations — 2:9
- Amos — 1:5
- Nahum — 3:13
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΟΧΛΟΣ.
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.
- ΜΟΧΛΟΙ — bars, bolts, levers
- ΜΟΧΛΟΙΣ — bars, bolts, levers
- ΜΟΧΛΟΝ — bar, a bar, bolt, a bolt, lever, a lever
- ΜΟΧΛΟΣ — bar, a bar, lever, a lever, bolt, a bolt
- ΜΟΧΛΟΥ — (of) bar, (of) bolt, (of) lever
- ΜΟΧΛΩ — (to) bar, (to) lever, (to) bolt
- ΜΟΧΛΩΝ — of bars, of levers, of beams, of bolts
- ΤΟΥΣΜΟΧΛΟΥΣ — the bars, the bolts, the levers, the crowbars
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