ὈΣΠΡΙΩΝ, ὀσπριων
OSPRIŌN, ospriōn
Sounds Like: oss-PREE-ohn
Translations: of vegetables, of pulse, of legumes
From the root: ὈΣΠΡΙΟΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to edible plants, particularly legumes or other vegetables grown for their seeds, such as beans, lentils, or peas. It is used in a general sense to denote plant-based food, often in contrast to meat or other richer foods. In the provided context, it appears in the genitive plural, indicating 'of vegetables' or 'of pulse'.
Inflection: Genitive, Plural, Neuter
Strong’s number: G3742 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:147
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Seven — 8:45
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ὈΣΠΡΙΟΝ.
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.
- ὈΣΠΡΙΑ — pulses, legumes, vegetables, a pulse, a legume, a vegetable
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