ὈΛΥΜΠΙΑΣ, ὀλυμπιας
OLYMPIAS, olympias
Sounds Like: oh-lym-PEE-as
Translations: Olympias, Olympia
From the root: ὈΛΥΜΠΙΑΣ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: This is a proper noun that can refer to a few things. It is most commonly known as the name of the ancient Greek city of Olympia, famous for being the site of the Olympic Games. It can also refer to Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great. In some contexts, it might refer to the Olympic Games themselves.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative or Genitive, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3690 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 17 — 1:20
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 29:11
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ὈΛΥΜΠΙΑΣ.
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.
- ὈΛΥΜΠΙΑΔΑ — Olympiad, an Olympiad
- ὈΛΥΜΠΙΑΔΙ — (to) Olympiad, (for) Olympiad, (in) an Olympiad, (to) a period of four years
- ὈΛΥΜΠΙΑΔΟΣ — of an Olympiad, of the Olympiad
- ὈΛΥΜΠΙΑΣΙ — to Olympia, at Olympia, in Olympia, to the Olympic games, at the Olympic games, in the Olympic games
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