ἱππεύς
hippeús · G2460 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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horseman, cavalryman
A soldier who fights on horseback
ExamplesActs 23:23 And he called to him two of the centurions and said, “Get two hundred soldiers ready by the third hour of the night to proceed to Caesarea, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen.”
Acts 23:32 But on the next day they let the horsemen go on with him, and they returned to the barracks.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἑβδομήκονταseventy 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀπέρχομαιto go away, to depart, to leave 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἑτοιμάζωto prepare, to make ready 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- פָּרָשׁ pârâsh · H6571 · war-horse, horseman, (plural:) cavalry
- Hebrew פָּרָשׁ (horseman) serves as the direct semantic equivalent of Greek ἱππεύς (equestrian/cavalry member), both denoting a mounted warrior or cavalry soldier in military contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Horseman, cavalryman55.21
- In Acts 23:23, a centurion is ordered to prepare “two hundred soldiers... with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen,” using this word for a mounted soldier.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἱππέως, ὁ (ἵππος), a horseman: Acts 23:23, Acts 23:32. (From Homer down.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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