2001 Translation

OSTA, osta

Sounds Like: oss-TAH

Translations: bones

From the root: ὈΣΤΟΥ͂Ν

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the hard, rigid forms that make up the skeleton of a body. It is used to describe the skeletal structure of humans or animals.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G3747 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 18:8, 25:3

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 8:200, 15:319
• Book 5 — 2:125
• Book 8 — 9:232
• Book 10 — 4:66
• Book 12 — 6:211, 6:212, 6:213
• Book 13 — 6:210
• Book 20 — 4:95

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 15:6, 97:3, 98:4, 102:1, 103:1, 103:7, 104:1

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 18:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 50:25
• Exodus — 13:19
• Joshua — 24:32
• 1 Samuel — 31:13
• 2 Samuel — 5:1, 19:12, 21:12, 21:13, 21:14
• 1 Kings — 13:2, 13:31
• 2 Kings — 23:16, 23:18, 23:20
• 1 Chronicles — 10:12, 11:1
• 2 Chronicles — 34:5
• 1 Maccabees — 13:25
• 4 Maccabees — 18:17
• Psalms — 6:3, 21:15, 21:18, 30:11, 31:3, 33:21, 34:10, 41:11, 50:10, 52:6, 101:4, 140:7
• Psalms of Solomon — 4:21, 8:6, 12:4, 13:3
• Odes — 6:16, 7:13
• Proverbs — 16:2, 17:22, 24:22, 25:15
• Ecclesiastes — 11:5
• Job — 4:14, 7:15, 19:20, 20:11, 30:17, 30:30, 33:21, 33:24
• Sirach — 26:13, 28:17, 46:12, 49:10, 49:15
• Isaiah — 38:13, 58:11, 66:14
• Jeremiah — 8:1, 23:9, 27:17
• Baruch — 2:24
• Ezekiel — 6:5, 24:5, 37:3, 37:4, 37:7, 37:11
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 6:24
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 6:24
• Amos — 2:1, 6:10
• Habakkuk — 3:16

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ὈΣΤΟΥ͂Ν.

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.

• ὈΣΤΕΑ — bones
• ὈΣΤΕΩΝ — of bones, bones
• ὈΣΤΟΙΣ — to bones, for bones, bones
• ὈΣΤΩΝ — of bones, bones

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