ΣΤΕΓΗ, στεγη
STEGĒ, stegē
Sounds Like: STEG-hay
Translations: roof, a roof, house, a house, dwelling, a dwelling
From the root: ΣΤΕΓΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a roof, covering, or a dwelling place. It is commonly used to denote the upper covering of a building, providing shelter. By extension, it can also refer to the entire house or dwelling itself, emphasizing the concept of shelter and habitation.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4721 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 14:17
Codex Sinaiticus
- 4 Maccabees — 17:3
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 1:26
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, ΣΤΕΓΗ.
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.
- ΣΤΕΓ — roof, a roof, house, a house, dwelling, a dwelling
- ΣΤΕΓΑΙ — roofs, a roof, decks, a deck, coverings, a covering
- ΣΤΕΓΑΙΣ — to roofs, for roofs, to houses, for houses, to dwellings, for dwellings
- ΣΤΕΓΑΣ — of a roof, of a covering, of a shelter
- ΣΤΕΓΕΣΙΝ — to roofs, to houses, to dwellings, to a roof, to a house, to a dwelling
- ΣΤΕΓΗΝ — roof, a roof, house, a house, dwelling, a dwelling
- ΣΤΕΓΗΣ — of a roof, of a house, of a dwelling, of a shelter
- ΤΕΓΗ — roof, a roof, covering, a covering
- ΤΕΓΩΝ — of a roof, of roofs, of a covering, of coverings
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