ΧΕΙΛΟΣ, χειλος
CHEILOS, cheilos
Sounds Like: KHEI-los
Translations: lip, a lip, shore, a shore, bank, a bank
From the root: ΧΕΙΛΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a lip, as in a part of the mouth. It can also refer to the edge or border of something, such as the shore or bank of a body of water. It is used to describe the physical edge or boundary of an object or geographical feature.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G5491 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 7:175
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 22:13
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 11:1, 11:6, 22:17, 41:3, 41:17
- Exodus — 7:15, 14:30
- Deuteronomy — 2:36, 4:48
- 1 Kings — 7:12
- 2 Chronicles — 4:5
- 1 Maccabees — 11:1
- Odes — 9:36
- Job — 40:21
- Ezekiel — 43:13, 47:6
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 3:36
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 3:36
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Hebrews — 11:12
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΧΕΙΛΟΣ.
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.
- ΙΛΕΩΝ — of lips
- ΧΕΙΛΕΣΙ — (to) lips, (to) a lip, (to) a border, (to) a shore
- ΧΕΙΛΕΣΙΝ — (to) lips, (with) lips, (on) lips
- ΧΕΙΛΕΩ — of lips, of shores, of brinks
- ΧΕΙΛΕΩΝ — of lips, of a lip, of a shore, of a bank
- ΧΕΙΛΗ — lips, a lip
- ΧΕΙΛΟΥΣ — (of) a lip, (of) a brink, (of) an edge, (of) a shore, (of) a bank
- ΧΕΙΛΩ — to kiss, to touch with the lips
- ΧΙΛΕΩ — of lips, of a lip, of the lip
- ΧΙΛΕΩΝ — of lips, of a lip, of the lips, of the edge, of the shore
- ΧΙΛΗ — lip, a lip, lips, a shore, a bank, a brim
- ΧΙΛΟΝ — lip, a lip, shore, a shore, edge, an edge
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