ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗΝΟΥΣ, σεβαστηνους
SEBASTĒNOUS, sebastēnous
Sounds Like: seh-bas-TEE-noos
Translations: Augusti, revered ones, venerable ones
From the root: ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word is the masculine plural accusative form of the adjective 'ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ' (Sebastos), meaning 'revered' or 'venerable'. It is often used as a proper noun to refer to the Roman Emperor Augustus or, in the plural, to the emperors or members of the imperial family, similar to how 'Caesar' was used. In this form, it would function as the direct object of a verb.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4575 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 20 — 8:176
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 5:9
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ.
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.
- ΣΕΒΑΣΤΑ — Augusta, venerable, revered, holy, a holy one
- ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ — Augusta, venerable, reverend, an Augusta
- ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗΝ — Augusta, Sebaste, venerable, revered, august
- ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗΝΟΙ — Augustan soldiers, Sebastenians, imperial troops
- ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗΝΟΙΣ — Augustans, those belonging to Augustus, the imperial guard, the imperial troops, (to) Augustans
- ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗΝΩΝ — of the Augustans, of the Sebastians, of the Imperial soldiers
- ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗΣ — Augustus, venerable, revered, an Augustus, a venerable one, (of) Augustus, (of) a venerable one, (to) Augustus, (to) a venerable one
- ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟ — Augustus, venerable, revered, a revered one, a venerable one
- ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΝ — Augustus, an Augustus, venerable, a venerable thing, revered, a revered thing, holy, a holy thing
- ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ — Augustus, venerable, reverend, worshipful, an Augustus
- ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ — of Augustus, of the venerable one, of the revered one
- ΣΕΒΑΣΤΩ — (to) Augustus, (to) the venerable one, (to) the revered one, (to) an Augustus, (to) a venerable one, (to) a revered one
- ΤΟΥΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ — of Augustus, of the Emperor, of the venerable one, of the revered one
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