ὈΛΙΓΩ, ὀλιγω
OLIGŌ, oligō
Sounds Like: oh-li-GOH-oh
Translations: I make little, I diminish, I despise, I make light of, I belittle
From the root: ὈΛΙΓΟΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a verb meaning 'to make little, to diminish, to despise, or to belittle'. It describes the action of reducing something in size, importance, or value. It can be used in contexts where someone or something is being made insignificant or treated with contempt.
Inflection: First Person Singular, Present, Active, Indicative
Strong’s number: G3640 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:10
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:79
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 23:4
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 2 — 7:174
- Book 3 — 12:291
- Book 5 — 1:9
- Book 7 — 9:194
- Book 8 — 4:99, 12:314
- Book 10 — 10:216
- Book 12 — 2:24
- Book 17 — 9:223, 10:256
- Book 18 — 1:23, 4:85, 6:145, 6:201, 8:300, 9:338, 9:367
- Book 19 — 1:26, 1:100, 2:177, 3:214
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 60:2
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 8:30
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
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, ὈΛΙΓΟΩ.
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.
- ὈΛΙΓΩΘΗ — to be diminished, to be made few, to be made small, to be lessened, to be reduced
- ὈΛΙΓΩΘΗΣΕΤΑΙ — will be diminished, will be made few, will be shortened
- ὈΛΙΓΩΘΗΤΩ — let it be made little, let it be diminished, let it be regarded as little, let it be esteemed lightly
- ὈΛΙΓΩΣΕΙΣ — you will diminish, you will lessen, you will make little
- ὨΛΙΓΩΘΗΣΑΝ — they were diminished, they were made few, they became few, they were lessened, they were reduced
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