ΞΥΣΤΟΝ, ξυστον
XYSTON, xyston
Sounds Like: KSOO-ston
Translations: polished, smooth, scraped, shaved, a javelin, a spear, a portico, a covered walk
From the root: ΞΥΣΤΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word can function as an adjective meaning 'polished,' 'smooth,' 'scraped,' or 'shaved.' It describes something that has been made smooth or refined. As a noun, it can refer to a 'javelin' or 'spear,' likely due to its smooth, polished shaft. It can also denote a 'portico' or 'covered walk,' which were often paved or smoothed areas for exercise or public gathering, particularly in gymnasiums.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G3586 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 7 — 12:299
Josephus' The Jewish War
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΞΥΣΤΟΣ.
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.
- ΞΥΣΤΟΙΣ — polished, smooth, sharpened, pointed, a javelin, a spear
- ΞΥΣΤΟΣ — polished, scraped, a scraped place, a colonnade, a portico
- ΞΥΣΤΟΥ — of scraped, of polished, of smoothed, of a scraped, of a polished, of a smoothed, of a portico, of a colonnade, of a promenade
- ΞΥΣΤΟΥΣ — hewn, polished, smooth
- ΞΥΣΤΩ — hewn, dressed, polished, smooth
- ΞΥΣΤΩΝ — of hewn, of polished, of smoothed
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