2001 Translation

CHEIROS, cheiros

Sounds Like: KHEI-ross

Translations: of hand, of a hand, of the hand, of power, of authority, of control

From the root: ΧΕΙΡ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This is the genitive singular form of the noun 'χείρ' (cheir), meaning 'hand'. In Koine Greek, 'hand' can refer not only to the physical limb but also metaphorically to power, authority, control, or agency. When used in the genitive case, it often indicates possession, origin, or the agent by which something is done, thus translating to 'of hand' or 'by the hand of'.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine

Strong’s number: G5495 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 4:7, 5:5, 14:2, 14:7, 16:7

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 28:2, 56:9

Codex Sinaiticus

• Leviticus — 21:19, 22:25
• Judges — 6:9, 6:14, 8:22, 9:16, 9:17, 10:12
• 1 Chronicles — 11:3, 11:23, 18:1
• 2 Esdras — 19:27, 20:32
• Judith — 13:14, 16:2
• Tobit — 5:18, 7:13
• Psalms — 16:13, 17:1, 21:21, 30:16, 34:10, 38:11, 48:16, 70:4, 72:23, 77:42, 81:4, 87:6, 88:49, 94:7, 96:10, 105:10, 139:5, 143:7, 143:11
• Ecclesiastes — 2:24, 4:1
• Job — 2:10, 6:23, 20:24, 27:22
• Wisdom — 5:16, 13:10
• Sirach — 21:19, 27:19, 35:9, 49:11, 51:3, 51:8
• Isaiah — 40:2
• Jeremiah — 15:17, 32:15, 39:4
• Zechariah — 11:6
• Mark — 8:23
• Luke — 1:71, 8:54
• John — 10:28, 10:29, 10:39
• Acts of the Apostles — 2:23, 3:7, 7:25, 11:30, 12:11, 15:23
• Hebrews — 8:9
• Revelation — 10:10, 13:16
• Epistle of Barnabas — 4:7, 12:11, 14:2

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 6 — 12:248
• Book 8 — 9:234
• Book 14 — 16:473
• Book 16 — 10:318, 10:320
• Book 17 — 10:259

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 2:6, 5:11, 22:13, 25:28, 27:17, 34:6
• Book Three — 7:156
• Book Six — 4:37
• Book Seven — 8:55, 9:9

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 11:3, 22:6, 26:2, 50:3, 56:19, 65:4, 98:5, 105:1, 105:2, 105:3, 122:3, 124:2

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 15:83, 72:403

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 4:11, 9:5, 19:16, 30:35, 32:11, 32:16, 39:4, 39:22, 39:23, 41:42, 43:9, 48:17, 48:22, 49:24
• Exodus — 3:8, 3:19, 13:9, 13:16, 14:30, 18:4, 18:8, 18:9, 18:10, 21:24, 29:20
• Leviticus — 8:23, 10:11, 14:14, 14:16, 14:17, 14:18, 14:25, 14:28, 14:29, 21:19, 22:25
• Numbers — 5:25, 24:24, 35:17, 35:18
• Deuteronomy — 6:8, 7:8, 8:17, 11:18, 19:21, 25:11
• Joshua — 17:4, 22:31
• Judges — 2:16, 2:18, 6:9, 6:14, 8:22, 8:34, 9:16, 9:17, 10:12, 12:2, 13:5, 13:23, 15:17, 17:3
• Ruth — 4:5, 4:9
• 1 Samuel — 4:3, 4:8, 7:3, 7:8, 7:14, 9:16, 10:1, 10:4, 10:18, 12:3, 12:4, 12:10, 12:11, 14:48, 15:28, 17:37, 24:16, 25:35, 25:39, 27:1, 28:17
• 2 Samuel — 3:18, 4:11, 8:1, 12:7, 13:6, 13:10, 14:16, 18:19, 18:31, 19:9, 22:1, 23:21
• 1 Kings — 10:13, 11:11, 11:12, 11:31, 11:34, 11:35, 14:26, 21:42, 22:3
• 2 Kings — 5:18, 5:20, 8:20, 8:22, 9:7, 9:8, 13:5, 13:25, 14:27, 16:7, 17:7, 18:29, 18:33, 18:34, 18:35, 19:14, 19:19, 20:6
• 1 Chronicles — 11:3, 11:23, 12:17, 18:1, 24:19, 26:28, 28:19, 29:5, 29:8, 29:16
• 2 Chronicles — 7:6, 13:8, 16:7, 21:10, 23:18, 24:11, 25:15, 26:11, 28:5, 30:6, 30:16, 31:15, 32:11, 32:13, 32:14, 32:15, 32:17, 32:22, 34:9, 34:14, 35:4, 35:6, 35:11
• Ezra (Beta) — 8:31
• Nehemiah — 5:5, 9:27, 10:31
• Esther — 4:17
• Judith — 13:14, 16:2
• Tobit — 5:18, 5:18, 7:12, 7:12
• 1 Maccabees — 2:48, 5:12, 5:62, 9:46
• 3 Maccabees — 2:8, 5:13, 6:10
• Psalms — 16:14, 17:1, 21:21, 30:16, 34:10, 38:11, 48:16, 70:4, 71:12, 72:23, 77:42, 81:4, 87:6, 88:49, 94:7, 96:10, 105:10, 106:2, 135:24, 139:5, 143:7, 143:11
• Odes — 13:71, 13:73
• Ecclesiastes — 2:24, 4:1
• Job — 2:10, 5:15, 5:20, 6:23, 20:24, 23:2, 27:22, 29:12, 35:7
• Wisdom — 2:18, 5:16, 13:10
• Sirach — 4:9, 21:19, 27:19, 32:12, 49:11, 51:3, 51:8
• Isaiah — 19:16, 36:18, 36:19, 36:20, 37:20, 38:6, 40:2, 42:6, 49:2, 51:16, 51:17, 51:18, 51:22
• Jeremiah — 15:17, 15:21, 20:13, 21:12, 22:3, 22:24, 32:1, 32:3, 32:14, 38:11, 38:32, 39:4, 41:3, 49:11
• Lamentations — 5:8
• Baruch — 3:5, 4:18, 4:21
• Ezekiel — 3:18, 3:20, 8:3, 13:18, 13:21, 13:23, 27:21, 30:10, 30:22, 33:6, 33:8, 34:27, 37:19, 38:17, 39:3, 46:5
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 3:15, 3:88, 5:5, 5:24, 6:27, 8:4, 8:7, 11:41
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 3:88, 5:5, 6:16, 8:25, 10:16, 11:41
• Hosea — 2:10, 13:14
• Micah — 4:10
• Habakkuk — 2:9
• Zephaniah — 3:15
• Zechariah — 11:6, 14:13

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 2 — 1:4
• Vision 3 — 1:7, 2:4

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 8:15, 9:25
• Mark — 1:31, 5:41, 8:23, 9:27
• Luke — 1:71, 1:74, 8:54
• John — 10:28, 10:29, 10:39
• Acts — 2:23, 3:7, 7:25, 11:30, 12:11, 15:23, 23:19, 28:3, 28:4
• Hebrews — 8:9
• Revelation — 8:4, 10:10, 13:16, 19:2

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
• 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
• 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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