2001 Translation

STYGNOS, stygnos

Sounds Like: STOO-gnoce

Translations: gloomy, sad, sullen, a gloomy, a sad, a sullen

From the root: ΣΤΥΓΝΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word describes someone or something as having a gloomy, sad, or sullen appearance or disposition. It is used to indicate a state of dejection or a severe, forbidding look. It can be applied to a person's face or general demeanor.

Inflection: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Strong’s number: G4765 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• Isaiah — 57:17
• Shepherd of Hermas — 2:3

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Isaiah — 57:17
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 2:12

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 1 — 2:3

From the same root

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

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.

• ΣΤΥΓΝ — gloomy, sad, dismal, stern, sullen, a gloomy, a sad, a dismal, a stern, a sullen
• ΣΤΥΓΝΗΝ — gloomy, dismal, sad, a gloomy, a dismal, a sad
• ΣΤΥΓΝΗΣ — of gloomy, of sad, of sullen, of stern

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