ΧΩΛΑΙ, χωλαι
CHŌLAI, chōlai
Sounds Like: kho-LAI
Translations: lame, crippled, halt, limping, lame ones, crippled ones
From the root: ΧΩΛΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes someone or something that is lame, crippled, or unable to walk properly. It can refer to a physical disability or, metaphorically, to something that is defective or incomplete. In a sentence, it would modify a noun, indicating that the noun possesses the quality of being lame or crippled.
Inflection: Plural, Feminine, Nominative or Vocative
Strong’s number: G5560 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:56
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΧΩΛΟΣ.
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.
- ΧΩΛΑ — lame, a lame person, lame things, the lame
- ΧΩΛΟΙ — lame, crippled, a lame person, a crippled person
- ΧΩΛΟΝ — lame, a lame, crippled, a crippled
- ΧΩΛΟΣ — lame, crippled, a lame person, a crippled person
- ΧΩΛΟΥΣ — lame, crippled, a lame person, a crippled person
- ΧΩΛΩ — lame, crippled, a lame person, a crippled person
- ΧΩΛΩΝ — of the lame, of the crippled, of lame people, of crippled people
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