ΧΕΙΡΕΣ, χειρες
CHEIRES, cheires
Sounds Like: KHEI-res
Translations: hands
From the root: ΧΕΙΡ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the hands, the terminal part of the arm beyond the forearm in humans and other primates. It is commonly used to denote physical actions, control, or power. For example, it can refer to the act of giving or receiving, or to the power or authority of a person or God.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G5495 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 8:9
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 56:7
Codex Sinaiticus
- Judges — 7:11
- 2 Esdras — 12:18
- 4 Maccabees — 14:6
- Psalms — 57:3, 80:7, 94:5, 118:73
- Proverbs — 6:17, 10:4, 13:4, 21:25
- Ecclesiastes — 2:11
- Song of Solomon — 5:5, 5:14
- Job — 5:12, 5:18, 20:10
- Sirach — 25:23, 42:6, 43:12, 48:19
- Isaiah — 1:15
- 1 John — 1:1
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 16:12, 27:22, 27:23, 37:27, 49:8
- Exodus — 15:17, 17:12
- Leviticus — 7:20
- Deuteronomy — 13:9, 21:7, 33:7
- Judges — 7:11, 19:27
- 2 Samuel — 2:7, 3:34, 4:1, 16:21, 19:43
- 1 Kings — 7:18, 7:19, 8:54
- 2 Kings — 11:7
- 2 Chronicles — 15:7
- Nehemiah — 2:18, 6:9
- 4 Maccabees — 14:6
- Psalms — 57:3, 80:7, 94:5, 118:73, 151:2
- Odes — 1:17
- Proverbs — 6:17, 10:4, 13:4, 21:25
- Ecclesiastes — 2:11
- Song of Solomon — 5:5, 5:14
- Job — 5:12, 5:18, 10:8, 20:10
- Sirach — 25:23, 42:6, 43:12, 48:19
- Isaiah — 1:15, 31:7, 35:3, 59:3
- Jeremiah — 2:36, 6:24, 27:15, 27:43, 31:37, 37:6
- Lamentations — 4:10
- Ezekiel — 7:17, 7:27, 10:12, 21:7, 22:14
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 2:32
- Hosea — 13:4
- Zephaniah — 3:16
- Zechariah — 4:9, 8:9
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
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
- ΧΕΙΡΑ — hand, a hand
- 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
- 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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