ὈΛΙΓΑ, ὀλιγα
OLIGA, oliga
Sounds Like: o-LEE-gah
Translations: few, a few, little, a little
From the root: ὈΛΙΓΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes a small quantity or number of something. It is used to indicate that there is not much of something, or that there are not many of a group. It can be used to modify nouns, indicating a limited amount.
Inflection: Neuter, Nominative or Accusative, Plural
Strong’s number: G3641 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 1:8
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 7:10
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 1:1
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 4 — 6:128
- Book 8 — 7:188
- Book 14 — 11:296, 16:474
- Book 17 — 2:27, 10:283, 10:285, 11:323
- Book 18 — 1:10
Josephus' The Jewish War
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Deuteronomy — 28:38
- 2 Kings — 10:18
- Job — 8:7, 15:11
- Wisdom — 3:5
- Sirach — 18:10, 19:1, 20:15, 31:10, 43:32
- Isaiah — 10:7
- Haggai — 1:6, 1:9
- Zechariah — 1:15
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ὈΛΙΓΟΣ.
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.
- ὈΛΙΓΑΙ — few, a few
- ὈΛΙΓΑΙΣ — few, a few, little, a little
- ὈΛΙΓΑΣ — few, a few, little
- ὈΛΙΓΑΣΟ — unknown
- ὈΛΙΓΗ — little, a little, few, a few, small, a small
- ὈΛΙΓΟΙ — few, a few, little, small
- ὈΛΙΓΟΙΣ — to few, for few, with few, by few, to little, for little, with little, by little
- ὈΛΙΓΟΝ — little, a little, few, a few, small, a small amount, short, a short time, briefly
- ὈΛΙΓΟΝΩΣ — scarcely, slightly, a little, hardly
- ὈΛΙΓΟΣ — little, few, small
- ὈΛΙΓΟΣΤΟΣ — smallest, least, fewest, a smallest, a least, a fewest
- ὈΛΙΓΟΣΤΩ — (to) fewest, (to) very few, (to) a very small number
- ὈΛΙΓΟΥ — of little, of few, a little, few, almost, nearly, a short time, a little while
- ὈΛΙΓΩΝ — of few, of little
- ὈΛΙΓΩΣ — little, few, scarcely, hardly, slightly, a little
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