ΥΠΟΝΟΜΟΝ, υπονομον
YPONOMON, yponomon
Sounds Like: hoo-POH-no-mon
Translations: mine, a mine, tunnel, a tunnel, underground passage, an underground passage
From the root: ΥΠΟΝΟΜΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to an underground passage or tunnel, often dug for military purposes, such as undermining city walls during a siege. It can also refer to a drain or sewer. It is a compound word, combining 'ὑπό' (under) and 'νόμος' (law, custom, or in this context, related to 'νέμω' meaning to distribute or assign, implying a dug-out portion of land).
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G5260 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 17:31
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΥΠΟΝΟΜΟΣ.
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.
- ΤΟΥΣΥΠΟΝΟΜΟΥΣ — the underground passages, the tunnels, the mines, the sewers
- ΥΠΟΝΟΜΟΙ — mines, tunnels, underground passages, saps, sewers
- ΥΠΟΝΟΜΟΙΣ — underground passages, mines, tunnels, saps, sewers, trenches
- ΥΠΟΝΟΜΟΣ — underground passage, mine, tunnel, sewer, a mine, an underground passage
- ΥΠΟΝΟΜΟΥΣ — underground passages, mines, tunnels, sewers
- ΥΠΟΝΟΜΩΝ — of undermining, of mines, of tunnels, of subterranean passages
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