2001 Translation

CHEIRA, cheira

Sounds Like: KHEI-rah

Translations: hand, a hand

From the root: ΧΕΙΡ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a hand, the part of the body at the end of the arm. It can be used literally to denote the physical hand or metaphorically to represent power, authority, action, or control. For example, it might be used in phrases like 'in the hand of' to indicate possession or control.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G5495 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 100:1-2

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:183

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 13:5, 19:5

Codex Sinaiticus

• Genesis — 22:6, 24:2
• Judges — 5:26
• 1 Chronicles — 13:10, 18:3
• 2 Esdras — 10:19, 12:18, 13:4, 13:5, 13:8, 13:9, 13:10, 13:12, 13:17, 13:19, 21:24, 23:13, 23:21
• Esther — 2:8
• Tobit — 13:2
• 1 Maccabees — 5:6, 6:25, 9:47, 12:39
• 4 Maccabees — 16:20
• Psalms — 36:24, 37:3, 54:21, 67:32, 73:11, 80:15, 88:26, 103:28, 105:26, 120:5, 128:7, 138:5, 143:7
• Proverbs — 23:2, 26:15, 30:32
• Ecclesiastes — 7:18
• Job — 1:11, 2:5, 13:21, 21:5, 31:21, 31:25, 31:35, 40:4, 40:32
• Wisdom — 16:15
• Sirach — 7:32, 15:16, 31:14, 31:18, 36:2, 36:5, 47:4, 50:15
• Isaiah — 14:27, 24:21
• Jeremiah — 1:9
• Lamentations — 0:10
• Zephaniah — 1:4
• Matthew — 8:3, 9:18, 12:13, 14:31
• Mark — 1:41, 3:1
• Luke — 5:13, 6:8, 6:10, 9:62, 15:22
• John — 7:30, 20:25, 20:27
• Acts of the Apostles — 9:41, 19:33
• Revelation — 10:5, 14:9, 20:4
• Epistle of Barnabas — 19:5

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 4:113
• Book 4 — 5:98
• Book 6 — 14:329
• Book 7 — 4:81, 4:82, 10:243, 13:327
• Book 8 — 9:233, 10:243, 15:408
• Book 9 — 7:148
• Book 10 — 1:7, 11:233
• Book 12 — 2:96, 6:185, 10:398
• Book 13 — 1:28, 9:257
• Book 17 — 2:45, 6:156, 10:287
• Book 20 — 2:18, 4:91

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 1:4, 7:5, 8:6, 9:2, 18:10, 34:16
• Book Three — 1:6, 7:148, 7:204, 8:39
• Book Four — 6:19, 7:4
• Book Five — 1:12, 6:43, 12:3
• Book Six — 1:13, 1:38, 1:54
• Book Seven — 6:34

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 21:3, 138:2

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 9:2

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 8:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 3:22, 8:9, 14:22, 22:6, 22:10, 22:12, 24:2, 24:9, 37:22, 38:28, 38:29, 38:30, 40:13, 40:21, 41:35, 41:42, 41:44, 42:37, 47:29, 48:14, 49:24
• Exodus — 3:20, 4:4, 4:6, 4:7, 6:8, 7:4, 7:5, 7:19, 8:6, 9:15, 9:22, 9:23, 10:12, 10:21, 10:22, 14:16, 14:21, 14:26, 14:27, 14:31, 21:24, 33:23
• Leviticus — 1:4, 1:10, 4:4, 4:24, 4:29, 4:33, 14:15, 14:26
• Numbers — 14:30, 20:11
• Deuteronomy — 3:24, 7:19, 11:2, 12:7, 12:18, 15:7, 15:10, 19:21, 25:11, 25:12, 28:8, 28:20, 32:40, 34:12
• Joshua — 8:18, 8:19
• Judges — 3:21, 3:30, 5:26, 15:15, 16:26, 17:5, 17:12, 18:19
• 1 Samuel — 6:5, 14:26, 14:27, 15:12, 17:46, 17:49, 21:3, 21:4, 21:8, 24:7, 24:11, 25:26, 25:31, 25:33, 26:9, 26:11, 26:23
• 2 Samuel — 1:14, 6:6, 8:3, 15:2, 15:5, 15:18, 18:4, 18:12, 18:28, 20:21, 24:16
• 1 Kings — 12:24, 13:4, 13:6, 13:33, 18:9, 21:28, 22:15
• 2 Kings — 5:11, 6:7, 7:2, 9:24, 10:15, 13:16, 15:19, 18:21, 22:5, 22:9
• 1 Chronicles — 13:9, 13:10, 18:3, 21:15, 23:28
• 2 Chronicles — 6:32, 18:33, 34:10, 34:17
• Ezra (Alpha) — 6:32, 8:60
• Ezra (Beta) — 1:8, 6:12, 8:33, 10:19
• Nehemiah — 2:18, 3:4, 3:5, 3:8, 3:9, 3:10, 3:12, 3:17, 3:19, 9:15, 11:24, 13:13, 13:21
• Esther — 2:8, 3:10
• Tobit — 11:4, 13:2, 13:2
• 1 Maccabees — 5:6, 6:25, 9:47
• 2 Maccabees — 7:34, 15:30, 15:32
• 4 Maccabees — 16:20
• Psalms — 36:24, 37:3, 54:21, 67:32, 73:11, 80:15, 88:26, 103:28, 105:26, 120:5, 128:7, 138:5, 143:7
• Psalms of Solomon — 5:8, 5:14
• Odes — 2:40
• Proverbs — 6:1, 23:2, 24:67, 26:15
• Ecclesiastes — 7:19
• Song of Solomon — 5:4
• Job — 1:11, 2:5, 13:21, 21:5, 28:9, 31:21, 31:25, 31:27, 31:35, 39:34, 40:27
• Wisdom — 8:12, 10:20, 16:15
• Sirach — 7:32, 15:16, 22:2, 25:26, 29:5, 33:3, 33:7, 34:14, 34:18, 47:4, 50:15
• Isaiah — 1:25, 5:25, 11:8, 11:11, 11:15, 14:27, 24:21, 28:4, 31:3, 36:6, 47:6, 49:22
• Jeremiah — 1:9, 6:12, 15:6, 16:21, 28:25, 29:10, 29:11, 40:13, 43:14
• Lamentations — 1:10, 2:8, 3:3, 5:6
• Ezekiel — 6:14, 10:7, 13:9, 14:9, 14:13, 16:27, 16:49, 17:18, 18:8, 18:17, 20:15, 20:23, 20:28, 20:42, 21:11, 21:12, 21:14, 21:17, 22:13, 25:6, 25:7, 25:13, 25:16, 30:24, 35:3, 36:7, 38:12, 39:21, 44:12, 47:14
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 11:42
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 5:5, 10:10, 11:42
• Hosea — 7:5
• Amos — 1:8
• Zephaniah — 1:4, 2:13
• Zechariah — 2:9, 13:7, 14:13

The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments

• Mandate 4 — 3:6

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 1 — 1:2
• Vision 3 — 10:7
• Vision 5 — 1:1, 1:5

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 8:3, 9:18, 12:10, 12:13, 12:49, 14:31, 26:23, 26:51
• Mark — 1:41, 3:1, 3:3, 3:5, 7:32
• Luke — 5:13, 6:8, 6:10, 9:62, 15:22
• John — 7:30, 20:25, 20:27
• Acts — 4:30, 9:41, 19:33, 26:1
• Revelation — 10:5, 14:9, 20:1, 20:4

Twelve Disciples

• The Didache — 4:9

From the same root

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

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.

• ΕΙΡΑΣ — hands
• ΙΑΧΕΙΡΑΝ — hand, a hand
• ΤΑΣΧΕΙΡΑΣ — the hands
• ΤΗΣΧΕΙΡΟΣ — (of) the hand, (of) a hand
• ΧΕΙΡ — hand, a hand, power, agency, a means
• ΧΕΙΡʼ — hand, a hand, (of) hand, (to) hand, power, a power, (of) power, (to) power, agency, a agency, (of) agency, (to) agency
• ΧΕΙΡΑʼ — hand, a hand, (with) hand, (by) hand, (into) hand, (to) hand
• ΧΕΙΡΑΙΣ — to hands, with hands, by hands, in hands
• ΧΕΙΡΑΙΣΤΑ — hands, with hands, by hands
• ΧΕΙΡΑΝ — hand, a hand
• ΧΕΙΡΑΣ — hands
• ΧΕΙΡΕ — hands, a hand
• ΧΕΙΡΕΙ — he attempts, he undertakes, he tries, he endeavors
• ΧΕΙΡΕΣ — hands
• ΧΕΙΡΗ — hand, a hand
• ΧΕΙΡΙ — to hand, by hand, in hand, with hand, by the hand, in the hand, with the hand
• ΧΕΙΡΙΣΙ — to hands, with hands, by hands
• ΧΕΙΡΟ — of hand, of a hand, of the hand, by hand, with hand
• ΧΕΙΡΟΣ — of hand, of a hand, of the hand, of power, of authority, of control
• ΧΕΙΡΟΣΙ — (to) hand, (to) hands
• ΧΕΡ — hand, a hand, (of) hand, (to) hand
• ΧΕΡΑΙ — hands, (in) hands, (with) hands, (by) hands
• ΧΕΡΕΣ — hands
• ΧΕΡΙΝ — hand, a hand, (by) hand, (with) hand, (in) hand, (to) hand
• ΧΕΡΙΩ — hand, a hand, power, strength, might, a means, a person
• ΧΕΡΝΗΤΙΣ — spinner, handmaid, one who works with her hands, a spinner, a handmaid, a poor woman
• ΧΕΡΟΙΝ — to two hands, with two hands, in two hands
• ΧΕΡΟΝΤΩΝ — of hands
• ΧΕΡΣΙ — to hands, with hands, in hands
• ΧΕΡΣΙΝ — (to) hands, (with) hands, (in) hands, hands
• ΧΙΡ — hand, a hand, of hand, to hand
• ΧΙΡΑ — hand, a hand, power, strength, agency
• ΧΙΡΑʼ — of hand, of a hand, of a person, of a side, of a power, of a means
• ΧΙΡΑΕΣ — hands
• ΧΙΡΑΙΣ — hands, with hands, by hands
• ΧΙΡΑΝ — hand, a hand
• ΧΙΡΑΣ — hands, a hand
• ΧΙΡΕΙ — hand, a hand, by hand, with the hand, (in) the hand
• ΧΙΡΕΣ — hands, a hand
• ΧΙΡΙ — (to) hand, (by) hand, (in) hand, (with) hand, (by) means, (through) means
• ΧΙΡΟΝΕΣ — hands, a hand
• ΧΙΡΟΣ — of hand, of a hand, of a person's hand, of a person's power, of a person's agency
• ΧΙΡΟΥΣ — hands, (of) hands, (to) hands
• ΧΙΡΩ — of hands, hands
• ΧΙΡΩΝ — hands, of hands
• Χ‾Η‾ — hand, a hand, (of) hand, (to) hand

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