ὈΛΙΓΟΙ, ὀλιγοι
OLIGOI, oligoi
Sounds Like: o-LI-goi
Translations: few, a few, little, small
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 are not many of a particular item or group, or that something is of limited size or extent. For example, it can refer to a small number of people or a small amount of time.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3641 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 103:9
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:200
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 6:130
- Book 4 — 5:98
- Book 5 — 3:182, 6:226
- Book 8 — 14:383
- Book 12 — 1:9
- Book 13 — 5:161
- Book 14 — 4:71, 4:72
- Book 16 — 9:284
- Book 17 — 9:216
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 4:9, 8:11, 34:3
- Book Two — 1:5, 17:43, 17:50
- Book Three — 2:10, 2:13, 6:5, 10:62
- Book Four — 3:47, 5:4
- Book Five — 1:14, 6:21
- Book Six — 1:52
- Book Seven — 3:15
Justin Martyr
- First Apology of Justin Martyr — 26:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Numbers — 13:19
- Deuteronomy — 4:27
- Joshua — 7:3
- 2 Chronicles — 29:34
- Nehemiah — 2:12
- 1 Maccabees — 3:29, 6:54, 9:9
- Ecclesiastes — 5:1, 9:14
- Job — 14:21
- Isaiah — 24:6
- Jeremiah — 49:2, 51:28
- Baruch — 2:13
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
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.
- ὈΛΙΓΑ — few, a few, little, a little
- 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
- 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
This concordance database is in beta
That means it's an unfinished preview of what we're building and is still being refined and corrected. It was initially generated from Google Gemini 2.5. It will be edited and corrected over time, with additional information added as we go.
It is your responsibility to double-check anything important.
Please report any errors or important missing information.