2001 Translation

OPHEŌS, opheōs

Sounds Like: O-FEH-ohs

Translations: of a serpent, of a snake

From the root: ΟΦΙΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This is the genitive singular form of the noun 'ὄφις' (ophis), meaning 'serpent' or 'snake'. It is used to indicate possession or origin, similar to how 'of a serpent' or 'belonging to a snake' would be used in English. For example, 'the venom of a serpent' or 'the path of a snake'.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Masculine

Strong’s number: G3789 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:2, 2:94, 10:62

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 1:48
• Book 3 — 7:154

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 39:6, 88:4, 94:2, 94:5, 100:4, 100:5, 124:3

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 12:3, 12:6

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Psalms — 57:5, 139:4
• Proverbs — 23:32, 24:54
• Job — 20:16
• Sirach — 21:2, 25:15
• Isaiah — 14:29
• Jeremiah — 26:22

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Revelation — 12:14

From the same root

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

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.

• ὈΦΕΙΣ — serpents, snakes
• ὈΦΕΣΙ — (to) serpents, (to) snakes
• ὈΦΕΣΙΝ — to snakes, to serpents
• ὈΦΕΩΝ — of serpents, of snakes
• ὈΦΙΝ — snake, serpent, a snake, a serpent
• ΟΦΕΙΣ — serpents, snakes
• ΟΦΕΣΙΝ — to serpents, to snakes
• ΟΦΕΩΝ — (of) snakes, (of) serpents
• ΟΦΕΩΣ — of a serpent, of a snake, of a dragon
• ΟΦΙ — serpent, snake, a serpent, a snake, (to) a serpent, (to) a snake, (for) a serpent, (for) a snake
• ΟΦΙΝ — snake, serpent, a snake, a serpent
• ΟΦΙΣ — snake, serpent, a snake, a serpent

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