ΣΚΥΜΝΟΙ, σκυμνοι
SKYMNOI, skymnoi
Sounds Like: SKOOM-noy
Translations: cubs, young lions, whelps
From the root: ΣΚΥΜΝΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the young of a lion, often translated as 'cubs' or 'young lions'. It can also be used more broadly to refer to the young of other predatory animals, like a whelp. It is typically used in contexts describing the offspring of fierce or powerful creatures.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4657 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
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, ΣΚΥΜΝΟΣ.
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.
- ΣΚΥΜΝΟ — lion's whelp, young lion, a lion's whelp, a young lion
- ΣΚΥΜΝΟΙΣ — lion cub, young lion, a lion cub, a young lion
- ΣΚΥΜΝΟΝ — lion's cub, a lion's cub, young lion, a young lion
- ΣΚΥΜΝΟΣ — lion's cub, young lion, a lion's cub, a young lion
- ΣΚΥΜΝΟΥ — of a lion's cub, of a young lion, of a cub
- ΣΚΥΜΝΟΥΣ — lion cubs, young lions
- ΣΚΥΜΝΩΝ — (of) lion cubs, (of) young lions
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