ΧΩΜΑΤΩΝ, χωματων
CHŌMATŌN, chōmatōn
Sounds Like: kho-MA-ton
Translations: of mounds, of earthworks, of ramparts, of embankments
From the root: ΧΩΜΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a mound, an earthwork, a rampart, or an embankment. It is often used in a military context to describe fortifications or siege works made of earth. It is the genitive plural form of the noun.
Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Neuter
Strong’s number: G5516 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 7:74, 7:82, 7:154
- Book Four — 1:13, 1:17
- Book Five — 6:16, 6:28, 9:9, 11:24, 11:45, 12:10, 12:32
- Book Six — 1:9, 1:14, 2:58, 3:1, 8:1, 8:19
- Book Seven — 6:32, 8:53, 9:14
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΧΩΜΑ.
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.
- ΤΩΝΧΩΜΑΤΩΝ — of the earthworks, of the mounds, of the ramparts, of the bulwarks
- ΧΩΜΑ — mound, an embankment, a rampart, a siege-mound
- ΧΩΜΑΣΙ — to mounds, for mounds, to ramparts, for ramparts, mounds, ramparts
- ΧΩΜΑΣΙΝ — mound, rampart, embankment, siege-mound, earthwork
- ΧΩΜΑΣΙΝΟΙ — mound-builders, people of the mounds, those who build mounds, those who use mounds
- ΧΩΜΑΤΑ — mounds, earthworks, ramparts, embankments
- ΧΩΜΑΤΙ — mound, a mound, heap, a heap, earth, soil, a dam, an embankment
- ΧΩΜΑΤΟΣ — of a mound, of an embankment, of a heap, of an earthwork, of a rampart
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