ὈΡΦΑΝΟΥΣ, ὀρφανους
ORPHANOUS, orphanous
Sounds Like: or-fa-NOOS
Translations: orphans, fatherless, a fatherless person, desolate, an orphan
From the root: ΟΡΦΑΝΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun, Adjective
Explanation: This word refers to someone who is fatherless, an orphan, or desolate. It can be used as a noun to mean 'an orphan' or 'a fatherless person', or as an adjective to describe someone as 'orphaned' or 'desolate'. In the provided examples, it is used in the plural accusative case, referring to 'orphans' as objects of an action.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3737 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 17 — 1:17
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 29:13
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
- Mandate 8 — 1:10
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
- Parable 1 — 1:8
The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions
- Vision 2 — 4:3
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, ΟΡΦΑΝΟΣ.
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.
- ὈΡΦΑΝ — orphan, an orphan, fatherless, desolate
- ὈΡΦΑΝΑ — orphans, fatherless, a fatherless child, an orphan
- ὈΡΦΑΝΗ — orphan, an orphan, fatherless, bereaved
- ὈΡΦΑΝΟΙ — orphans, fatherless, a fatherless one, an orphan
- ὈΡΦΑΝΟΙΣ — (to) orphans, (to) fatherless, (to) desolate
- ὈΡΦΑΝΟΝ — orphan, an orphan, fatherless, bereaved, desolate
- ὈΡΦΑΝΟΣ — orphan, an orphan, fatherless, desolate, comfortless
- ὈΡΦΑΝΩ — orphan, an orphan, of orphans, to an orphan, to orphans
- ὈΡΦΑΝΩΝ — of orphans, orphans
- ΟΡΦΑΝ — orphan, fatherless, an orphan, a fatherless child
- ΟΡΦΑΝΟ — orphan, an orphan, orphaned, fatherless, desolate, comfortless
- ΟΡΦΑΝΟΙ — orphans, fatherless, bereaved, destitute
- ΟΡΦΑΝΟΙΣ — to orphans, to fatherless children, to bereft ones, to desolate ones
- ΟΡΦΑΝΟΝ — orphan, an orphan, fatherless, desolate, comfortless
- ΟΡΦΑΝΟΣ — orphan, an orphan, fatherless, desolate, comfortless, bereft
- ΟΡΦΑΝΟΥ — of an orphan, of an orphaned person, of a fatherless child, of a desolate person, an orphan, a fatherless child, a desolate person
- ΟΡΦΑΝΟΥΣ — orphans, fatherless, destitute
- ΟΡΦΑΝΩ — orphan, an orphan, fatherless, a fatherless child, (to) an orphan, (to) a fatherless child
- ΟΡΦΑΝΩΝ — of orphans
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