ΧΕΙΡΟΝΑ, χειρονα
CHEIRONA, cheirona
Sounds Like: KHEI-ro-na
Translations: worse, a worse thing, inferior, an inferior thing
From the root: ΧΕΙΡΩΝ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is a comparative adjective meaning 'worse' or 'inferior'. It is used to describe something that is of lower quality, less desirable, or more harmful than something else. It can function as a predicate adjective or an attributive adjective, often followed by a genitive case or the particle 'ἤ' (than) to indicate comparison.
Inflection: Nominative or Accusative, Neuter, Plural; or Accusative, Masculine or Feminine, Singular
Strong’s number: G5501 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 34:309
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 67:3
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 34:172
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
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, ΧΕΙΡΩΝ.
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.
- ΧΕΙΡΟΝ — worse, a worse thing, inferior, more evil
- ΧΕΙΡΟΝΙ — (to) worse, (to) inferior
- ΧΕΙΡΟΝΟΣ — of worse, worse
- ΧΕΙΡΟΝΩΝ — (of) worse, (of) inferior, (of) worse things, (of) inferior things, (of) worse men, (of) inferior men
- ΧΕΙΡΟΥΣ — worse, inferior
- ΧΕΙΡΩΝ — Chiron
- ΧΕΙΡΩΝΙ — (to) Cheiron
- ΧΙΡΟΝ — worse, worse off, more evil, more wicked
- ΧΙΡΟΝΑ — worse, more evil, inferior, more grievous
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