2001 Translation

OLIGON, oligon

Sounds Like: o-LI-gon

Translations: little, a little, few, a few, small, a small amount, short, a short time, briefly

From the root: ὈΛΙΓΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective, Adverb

Explanation: This word can function as an adjective meaning 'little' or 'few', or as an adverb meaning 'a little' or 'briefly'. As an adjective, it describes a small quantity or number of something. As an adverb, it indicates a small degree or duration of an action. It is often used to denote scarcity or brevity.

Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative (as an adjective); Does not inflect (as an adverb)

Strong’s number: G3641 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:29

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 19:134, 5:50
• Book Two — 5:50

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 3:90, 4:114, 11:204, 17:256, 18:258
• Book 2 — 15:324
• Book 3 — 1:25, 2:45, 2:62, 6:122, 7:154, 7:157, 7:175, 13:299
• Book 4 — 2:12, 2:21, 4:81, 6:116, 6:128
• Book 5 — 1:27, 3:177, 5:198, 9:324
• Book 7 — 1:31, 5:96, 6:126, 9:205, 10:249, 12:300, 12:303, 14:344, 15:383
• Book 8 — 2:42, 11:285, 13:322, 13:343, 14:381
• Book 9 — 3:44, 4:85, 6:121, 10:214
• Book 10 — 1:23, 2:26, 2:33
• Book 11 — 8:345
• Book 12 — 2:14, 3:136, 6:199, 10:412
• Book 13 — 7:224, 12:340
• Book 14 — 11:286, 13:336, 16:468
• Book 15 — 5:115
• Book 17 — 4:76, 5:83, 7:183
• Book 18 — 1:11, 1:20, 2:37, 6:143, 6:172, 8:293, 9:372
• Book 19 — 1:15, 1:74, 1:76, 1:97, 1:143, 1:155, 6:295, 8:346, 8:348, 9:366
• Book 20 — 2:24, 8:157, 8:174, 11:257

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 4:11, 8:9, 18:24, 20:13, 26:7, 33:25
• Book Two — 4:8, 7:16, 17:42, 19:41, 20:10
• Book Three — 5:26, 7:91, 7:122, 7:128, 7:159, 7:170, 9:6, 9:26
• Book Four — 1:6, 1:19, 1:49, 2:6, 2:32, 2:34, 7:33, 7:41, 8:12, 10:15, 11:13
• Book Five — 2:38, 4:14, 6:7, 6:37, 7:8, 7:32, 9:1, 11:15, 13:23
• Book Six — 8:28
• Book Seven — 2:8, 5:19

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 12:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 3:1, 25:1, 56:18, 126:4

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 31:151, 59:304, 59:305, 63:324, 65:344, 68:381

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 11:1

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 19:3

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 9:3

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Leviticus — 25:52
• Numbers — 11:32
• 1 Kings — 17:10, 17:12
• Judith — 13:9
• Tobit — 4:8, 12:8
• 2 Maccabees — 11:1, 13:19
• 4 Maccabees — 6:20, 15:27
• Psalms — 36:10, 36:16, 72:2
• Psalms of Solomon — 16:2
• Proverbs — 5:14, 6:10, 24:48
• Ecclesiastes — 5:11
• Wisdom — 12:2, 15:8, 16:3, 16:6
• Sirach — 6:19, 34:19, 40:6, 51:16, 51:27
• Isaiah — 21:17

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 2 — 1:4
• Parable 7 — 1:6

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Mark — 1:19, 6:31
• Luke — 5:3, 7:47
• Acts — 14:28
• 2 Corinthians — 8:15
• 1 Timothy — 4:8
• James — 4:14
• 1 Peter — 1:6, 5:10
• Revelation — 12:12, 17:10

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
• ὈΛΙΓΟΙ — few, a few, little, small
• ὈΛΙΓΟΙΣ — to few, for few, with few, by few, to little, for little, with little, by little
• 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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