Μωϋσῆς
See also: Μωυσής
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Μωσῆς (Mōsês), Μωϋσῆ (Mōüsê), Μοϋσῆς (Moüsês)
Etymology
From Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (mōše).
Pronunciation
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /mo.yˈse̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /mo.yˈsis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /mo.yˈsis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /mo.iˈsis/
Proper noun
Μωϋσῆς • (Mōüsês) m (genitive Μωϋσέως); third declension
- a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Moses
Inflection
Irregular declension of ὁ Μωϋσῆς; τοῦ Μωϋσέως (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ Μωϋσῆς ho Mōüsês | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Μωϋσέως toû Mōüséōs | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Μωϋσεῖ tôi Mōüseî | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Μωϋσῆν tòn Mōüsên | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Μωϋσῆ Mōüsê | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Μωυσής (Mōusḗs) is the ancestor of most forms of the name Moses used in Christendom. Most Islamic world forms derive from Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā). Most Jewish community forms derive directly from the Hebrew or other Jewish languages.
- → Albanian: Moisiu
- → Armenian: Մովսես (Movses)
- → Breton: Moizez
- → Bulgarian: Мойсей (Mojsej)
- → Catalan: Moisès
- → Czech: Mojžíš
- → Danish: Moses
- → Dutch: Mozes
- → Estonian: Mooses
- → Finnish: Mooses
- → French: Moïse
- → Friulian: Moisès
- → Galician: Moisés
- → Georgian: მოსე (mose)
- Greek: Μωυσής (Moysís)
- → Gothic: 𐌼𐍉𐍃𐌴𐍃 (mōsēs)
- → Hungarian: Mózes
- → Italian: Mosè
- → Japanese: モーセ (Mōze)
- → Latin: Moyses, Moses
- English: Moses
- German: Moses
- → Lithuanian: Mozė
- → Norwegian: Moses
- → Polish: Mojżesz
- → Portuguese: Moisés
- → Russian: Моисе́й (Moiséj)
- → Scottish Gaelic: Maois
- → Serbo-Croatian: Мојсије, Mojsije
- → Slovak: Mojžiš
- → Slovene: Mojzes
- → Spanish: Moisés
- → Swedish: Mose
- → Ukrainian: Мойсей (Mojsej)
References
- Nestle, Eberhard; Aland, Kurt; et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G3475 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible