ΥΛΑΙΣ, υλαις
YLAIS, ylais
Sounds Like: HOO-lais
Translations: forests, woods, thickets, materials, matter
From the root: ΥΛΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a forest, woods, or a thicket of trees. It can also refer to material or matter, especially raw material used for building or other purposes. In a broader sense, it can denote the substance from which something is made. It is used in sentences to describe physical landscapes or the components of an object.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G5207 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 12:6
Codex Sinaiticus
- Job — 38:40
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Job — 38:40
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΥΛΗ.
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.
- ΤΗΝΥΛΗΝ — the wood, the forest, the matter, the material
- ΥΛΑ — material, matter, wood, a wood, forest, a forest
- ΥΛΑΙ — woods, forests, materials, matter
- ΥΛΗ — wood, a wood, forest, a forest, material, matter, a matter
- ΥΛΗΝ — material, matter, wood, a wood, forest, a forest
- ΥΛΗΣ — of wood, of forest, of material, of matter, a forest, a wood, a material, a matter
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