ΣΤΙΦΗ, στιφη
STIPHĒ, stiphē
Sounds Like: STEE-fee
Translations: crowd, a crowd, throng, a throng, band, a band, company, a company, body, a body
From the root: ΣΤΙΦΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a dense mass of people or things, a crowd, throng, or a compact body of soldiers or individuals. It describes a group that is closely packed together. It is typically used in the plural to denote multiple such groups or a large, undifferentiated mass.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G4769 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 17 — 8:195
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 6:33
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΤΙΦΟΣ.
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.
- ΣΤΙΦΕΙ — to a dense mass, to a close body, to a compact body, to a crowd, to a throng, to a band, to a company
- ΣΤΙΦΟΣ — crowd, a crowd, throng, a throng, band, a band, company, a company, body, a body
- ΣΤΙΦΟΣἘΞΕΘΕΟΝ — crowd, a crowd, throng, a throng, band, a band, troop, a troop
- ΣΤΙΦΟΣΕἸΣ — a dense mass, a close body of men, a throng, a crowd, a band, a troop
- ΣΤΙΦΟΥΣ — of a crowd, of a throng, of a band, of a company, of a body
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