2001 Translation

XANTHOS, xanthos

Sounds Like: KSAN-thoss

Translations: yellow, blond, fair-haired

From the root: ΞΑΝΘΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word describes a color, specifically yellow or golden. It is often used to describe hair color, meaning blond or fair-haired. It functions as an adjective, modifying nouns to indicate their color or the color of their hair.

Inflection: Nominative, Singular, Masculine

Strong’s number: G3586 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 6 — 8:164

From the same root

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

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.

• ΞΑΝΘΗΝ — yellow, blonde, golden, a yellow, a blonde, a golden
• ΞΑΝΘΗΣ — of the blonde, of the yellow, of the golden
• ΞΑΝΘΙΚΟΝ — yellow, a yellow thing, blond, a blond thing
• ΞΑΝΘΟΤΗΤΑ — blondness, yellowness, fairness, a blondness, a yellowness, a fairness

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