2 Peter 3:17 — Word Study
N1904ὑμεῖς οὖν, ἀγαπητοί, προγινώσκοντες φυλάσσεσθε ἵνα μὴ τῇ τῶν ἀθέσμων πλάνῃ συναπαχθέντες ἐκπέσητε τοῦ ἰδίου στηριγμοῦ,
BSAyou yourselvessu therefore,oun [then, as a consequence] beloved,agapētos [cherished by God] knowing [this] beforehandproginōskō▸ [are aware of, have foreknowledge of] do bewarephulassō▸ [watchful, vigilant] thathina notmē by theho of theho lawlessathesmos [wicked, ungodly] errorplanē [falsehood, deceit] having been led awaysunapagō▸ [led astray, deceived] you may fall fromekpiptō▸ [stumble, lose your footing] theho [your] ownidios steadfastness,stērigmos△ [firm position, steadfastness]
| Greek | English | Parsing |
|---|---|---|
| ὑμεῖς | you yourselves | Personal pronoun, second person, nominative |
| οὖν, | therefore, | Conjunction |
| ἀγαπητοί, | beloved, | Adjective, vocative, plural |
| προγινώσκοντες | knowing [this] beforehand | Verb, present, active |
| φυλάσσεσθε | do beware | Verb, present, middle |
| ἵνα | that | Conjunction |
| μὴ | not | Particle, negative |
| τῇ | by the | Article, dative, singular |
| τῶν | of the | Article, genitive, plural |
| ἀθέσμων | lawless | Adjective, genitive, plural |
| πλάνῃ | error | Noun, dative, singular |
| συναπαχθέντες | having been led away | Verb, aorist, passive |
| ἐκπέσητε | you may fall from | Verb, second aorist, active |
| τοῦ | the | Article, genitive, singular |
| ἰδίου | [your] own | Adjective, genitive, singular |
| στηριγμοῦ, | steadfastness, | Noun, genitive, singular |
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| BSB | Therefore, beloved, since you already know these things, be on your guard so that you will not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure standing. |
| KJV | Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. |
| ASV | Ye therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness. |
| YLT | Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness, |
| WEB | You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness. |
| BBE | For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith. |
Where they part company is ἀθέσμων — see How Translations Differ.
The structure consists of a main clause followed by subordinate clauses that provide reasons and consequences for the warning.







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clause
subjectσύ
verbπρογινώσκω
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1 of 16 occurs nowhere else in the New Testament — a word chosen on purpose.
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Deep Study — 2 Peter 3:17
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Context — Warnings Against False Teachersgenerated
2 Peter 3:17 serves as a crucial reminder to the believers about the necessity of vigilance. Peter emphasizes that, since they already possess knowledge of the truth, they must guard themselves against being misled by the lawless. This warning comes in light of the dangers posed by false teachers, as previously discussed in the letter. The call to remain steadfast is echoed throughout Scripture, reminding believers of the importance of maintaining their faith and not being swayed by deceitful influences.
Cross References
| Reference | Text (BSB) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 Peter 1:12 | Therefore I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you now have. |
| 2 | Proverbs 1:17 | How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it! |
| 3 | Matthew 24:24–25 | For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible. |
| 4 | Mark 13:23 | So be on your guard; I have told you everything in advance. |
| 5 | John 16:4 | But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. |
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — 23 references, hung on the phrase they belong to
The Key Word — ἀθέσμων, athesmosgenerated
The word ἀθέσμος means 'lawless' and is derived from the root for 'law.' It describes individuals who disregard moral laws or divine commandments. In this context, it refers to those who lead others astray by promoting false teachings.
The parsing of this adjective indicates it is used in the genitive plural masculine form, which aligns with its role in describing the error of those who act without regard for God's law.
How Translations Differ — measured against the Berean Standard Biblegenerated
The verse in the Berean Standard Bible uses lawless to describe those who lead others astray, while the KJV and ASV opt for wicked. This distinction highlights the nature of the individuals being warned against.
The translations also differ in their rendering of πλάνῃ. While most versions use error, the ULB translates it as deceit, emphasizing the misleading nature of the teachings.
Sentence Structuregenerated
The main verb of the verse is φυλάσσεσθε, do beware, which governs the following clauses. The structure includes an adverbial clause indicating the reason for the warning, followed by a negative clause that expresses the desired outcome.
The subject of the verse is ὑμεῖς (you), with the participial phrase προγινώσκοντες (knowing beforehand) providing context for the command to be vigilant.
Septuagint Backgroundgenerated
ἀθέσμος does not have a direct equivalent in the Septuagint, but it aligns with the Hebrew concept of lawlessness found in terms like חָטָא (sinner) and רָשָׁע (wicked). This connection emphasizes the moral implications of disregarding God's commandments.
The absence of a direct translation highlights the New Testament's unique context of addressing specific behaviors in the early Christian community.
In plain words — the whole versegenerated
2 Peter 3:17 reminds believers to be cautious and alert, as they already know the truth. Peter warns them not to be misled by those who act without regard for God's laws, emphasizing the importance of maintaining their faith and standing firm.
Frequently Asked Questionsgenerated
Peter refers to misleading teachings and behaviors that disregard God's laws, which can lead believers away from the truth.
Being vigilant helps believers maintain their faith and avoid falling into false teachings that can undermine their spiritual stability.
Falling from one's secure standing refers to losing one's firm position in faith due to being misled or deceived by false teachings.
Believers can grow in grace and knowledge through studying Scripture, prayer, and fellowship with other Christians, which helps them deepen their understanding of God's truth.
Reflection Questionsgenerated
- What are some ways I can guard myself against false teachings in today's world?
- How can I ensure that I remain steadfast in my faith amidst challenges?
- What steps can I take to grow in grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ?
- In what ways can I support others in their faith journey to help them stand firm?
The early church on this verse — how the Fathers read it
Early church Fathers referenced this verse to emphasize the importance of vigilance against deception and the need for steadfastness in faith.
Peter has to warn his people so that they will not be deceived. Our Lord Jesus Christ himself warned us for our safety, that we should “beware of those who come to us in sheep’s clothing,Early Church Fathers on 2 Peter 3 →
Therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, take care that you are not led astray by the error of the wicked and fall from your own commitment, but grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.Early Church Fathers on 2 Peter 3 →
You therefore, brothers, being forewarned, be on guard, etc. Being forewarned, because foolish ones will introduce various errors, some denying the future judgment, some falsifying divine words, some interpreting wrongly,Early Church Fathers on 2 Peter 3 →
Commentators on this verse — 8 expositors, verse by verse
Each of these wrote on 2 Peter 3:17 itself, not merely on the chapter around it.
John Gill1697–1771Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleYe therefore, beloved, seeing ye know [these things] before,.... As that there will be such mockers and scoffers in the last days, and such unlearned and unstable men that will deprave the
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Robert Jamieson1802–1880Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's CommentaryYe therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
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Matthew Poole1624–1679Matthew Poole's Commentary on the Holy BibleSeeing ye know these things, which I have been now writing to you of, viz. That the Judge will certainly come; or, that heretics, deceivers, and scoffers will come; or both may be comprehended. Beware lest ye also; as well as others have been. Fall from your own stedfastness; the stedfastness of your faith. This admonition he gives them, not to discourage them with fear of apostacy, but to awaken them to that holy care which would be a means to prevent it; and so to keep them from security, and trust in themselves, not to weaken their faith, and reliance on the promise.
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John Trapp1601–1669Trapp's Complete Commentary on the Old and New Testaments17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. Ver. 17. Beware lest] Cavebis autem si pavebis. Let him that stands take heed lest he fall. Be not high minded, but fear. Fear a snake under every flower, a snare under every new truth. Try the spirits whether they be of God or not, because many false prophets are abroad, who deceive the hearts of the simple, and make them fall from their own stedfastness. Try therefore before ye trust; look before ye leap. Alioqui saliens antequam videas, casuals es antequam debeas, i.e. If ye look not before ye leap, ye will fall before ye would.…
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Charles John Ellicott1819–1905Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) Know these things before.—Seeing that I have forewarned you of the certain appearance, conduct, and success of these false teachers and scoffers. “Forewarned, forearmed.” Being led away with.—The Greek word occurs only thrice in the New Testament—here, Romans 12:16, and Galatians 2:13. In Romans 12:16 its meaning is a good deal different (see Note there). In Galatians 2:13 it has the same meaning as here; and, strangely enough, it is of Barnabas being “carried away with” the dissimulation of Peter and his associates. The error of the wicked.—Better, the error of the lawless (2 Peter 2:7), but not “the seduction” or “deceit of the lawless,” as some would render it. It is the same word…
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AdamClarkeAdam Clarke's Commentary on the BibleVerse 17. Seeing ye know - before] Seeing that by prophets and apostles you have been thus forewarned, beware, φυλασσεσθε, keep watch, be on your guard; cleave to God and the word of his grace, lest ye be led away from the truth delivered by the prophets and apostles, by the error of the wicked, αθεσμων, of the lawless- those who wrest the Scriptures to make them countenance their lusts, exorbitant exactions, and lawless practices. Fall from your own steadfastness.] From that faith in Christ which has put you in possession of that grace which establishes the heart.
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CambridgeThe Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges17. beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked] Better, of the lawless ones, as in chap. 2 Peter 2:7. It is noticeable that while St Paul had used the word for being “led away” of Barnabas as being influenced by the Judaizing teachers at Antioch (Galatians 2:13), St Peter here applies it to those who were persuaded by teachers at the opposite pole of error. Comp. note on chap. 2 Peter 2:1. The word for “error” is prominent in the Epistles to which St Peter has referred in the preceding verses (Ephesians 4:14; 1 Thessalonians 2:3; 2 Thessalonians 2:11).fall from your own stedfastness] The “steadfastness” of the readers of the Epistle as contrasted with the unstable or…
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Albert Barnes1798–1870Barnes' Notes on the BibleSeeing that ye know these things before - Being aware of this danger, and knowing that such results may follow.
Read Albert Barnes on 2 Peter 3 →The verse in English, compared — 16 translations, and where they part company
Every translation on this page is a decision someone had to make and commit to. Read down a column and you see one translator's judgement; read across a row and you see the range the Greek actually allows. The BSB is the wording the rest of this page is measured against, so it is listed first.
Modern formal
Therefore, beloved, since you already know these things, be on your guard so that you will not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure standing.
You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
Therefore, beloved, since you already know these things, be on your guard so that you will not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure standing.
Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard that you do not get led astray by the error of these unprincipled men and fall from your firm grasp on the truth.
Tyndale line
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
Ye therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.
Ye therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
Ye therefore beloued, seeing ye know these thinges before, beware, lest ye be also plucked away with the errour of the wicked, and fall from your owne stedfastnesse.
Strictly literal
Ye therefore, beloved, knowing [these] things before, take care lest, being led away along with the error of the wicked, ye should fall from your own stedfastness:
Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness,
You, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, you may fall from your own steadfastness,
Therefore, beloved, since you know about these things beforehand, guard yourselves so that you are not led astray by the deceit of lawless people and you lose your own faithfulness.
From the Latin
You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness.
Simplified
My friends, since you already know this, make sure that these errors of the wicked don't lead you astray, and you don't fall from your firm position.
For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.
Word by word, the decisions they made
Counted from the translations carried on this site, not from a survey of every English Bible. A rendering shared by many versions is usually inherited rather than independently arrived at — the Tyndale line in particular runs through most of them.
The sentence as the grammar sees it — from the Nestle 1904 treebank
This is not our own analysis: it is the scholarly syntax tree for the verse, showing how the clause actually holds together.
Boxes are the grammarian's groupings — clause, noun phrase, prepositional phrase.
The earliest translations — Latin and Syriac
Every translation is an argument about meaning made by someone who had to commit to one. These two were made while the Greek was still a living language, and they are the oldest opinions we have about what this verse says.
Vos igitur fratres, præscientes custodite, ne insipientium errore traducti excidatis a propria firmitate :
Jerome revised the Old Latin against the Greek from AD 382; the Latin west read this text for a thousand years.
ܐܢܬܘܢ ܗܟܝܠ ܚܒܝܒܝ ܟܕ ܩܕܡܝܢ ܐܢܬܘܢ ܝܕܥܝܢ ܛܪܘ ܢܦܫܟܘܢ ܕܕܠܡܐ ܟܕ ܐܙܠܝܢ ܐܢܬܘܢ ܒܬܪ ܛܥܝܘܬܐ ܕܐܝܠܝܢ ܕܕܠܐ ܢܡܘܣ ܐܢܘܢ ܬܦܠܘܢ ܡܢ ܣܡܟܐ ܕܝܠܟܘܢ
The Bible of the Syriac-speaking church, in the language nearest to the Aramaic Jesus spoke.
Shown verse by verse rather than word by word: aligning a Greek word to its Latin or Syriac counterpart automatically would be guesswork, and a wrong alignment is worse than none.
The Greek editions compared — what the manuscripts actually say
Eight printed editions of the Greek New Testament, side by side. Where they agree the wording is settled; where a word is missing from an edition it is marked, so you can see the difference rather than take it on trust.
ὑμεῖς οὖν, ἀγαπητοί, προγινώσκοντες φυλάσσεσθε ἵνα μὴ τῇ τῶν ἀθέσμων πλάνῃ συναπαχθέντες ἐκπέσητε τοῦ ἰδίου στηριγμοῦ,
The standard critical text of the New Testament.
ὑμεῖς οὖν, ἀγαπητοί, προγινώσκοντες φυλάσσεσθε ἵνα μὴ τῇ τῶν ἀθέσμων πλάνῃ συναπαχθέντες ἐκπέσητε τοῦ ἰδίου στηριγμοῦ,
The previous edition, still widely cited.
ὑμεῖς οὖν, ἀγαπητοί, προγινώσκοντες φυλάσσεσθε ἵνα μὴ τῇ τῶν ἀθέσμων πλάνῃ συναπαχθέντες ἐκπέσητε τοῦ ἰδίου στηριγμοῦ,
The Society of Biblical Literature edition, freely licensed.
ὑμεῖς οὖν, ἀγαπητοί, προγινώσκοντες φυλάσσεσθε ἵνα μὴ τῇ τῶν ἀθέσμων πλάνῃ συναπαχθέντες ἐκπέσητε τοῦ ἰδίου στηριγμοῦ,
The edition that turned scholarship toward the earliest manuscripts.
ὑμεῖς οὖν, ἀγαπητοί, προγινώσκοντες φυλάσσεσθε ἵνα μὴ τῇ τῶν ἀθέσμων πλάνῃ συναπαχθέντες ἐκπέσητε τοῦ ἰδίου στηριγμοῦ,
An independent critical text built from the oldest witnesses then known.
ὑμεῖς οὖν, ἀγαπητοί, προγινώσκοντες φυλάσσεσθε ἵνα μὴ τῇ τῶν ἀθέσμων πλάνῃ συναπαχθέντες ἐκπέσητε τοῦ ἰδίου στηριγμοῦ,
A recent critical edition following documentary evidence closely.
ὑμεῖς οὖν, ἀγαπητοί, προγινώσκοντες φυλάσσεσθε ἵνα μὴ τῇ τῶν ἀθέσμων πλάνῃ συναπαχθέντες ἐκπέσητε τοῦ ἰδίου στηριγμοῦ,
The reading of the majority of surviving manuscripts.
ὑμεῖς οὖν, ἀγαπητοί, προγινώσκοντες φυλάσσεσθε ἵνα μὴ τῇ τῶν ἀθέσμων πλάνῃ συναπαχθέντες ἐκπέσητε τοῦ ἰδίου στηριγμοῦ,
The printed tradition behind the King James Version.
A witness that read differently would show its variant word here, marked.
Word by word, across the editions
Every edition agrees. All 8 printed editions — Nestle-Aland 28, Nestle-Aland 27, SBLGNT, Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Tyndale House 2017, Textus Receptus (KJV), Byzantine majority — carry every word of this verse, in the same order, with no difference that any translator would render differently.
The map of this verse — what each word keeps company with
This is a map of two things, both counted rather than judged. Company kept: which words stand within three words of each of these, anywhere in the Greek New Testament — the thicker the line, the more often the pair meet compared with chance. Built from: the words a word is made out of, taken from its own Strong’s entry. It is not a map of meaning: nothing here claims two words mean the same thing. Click any circle to see the numbers behind it.
Lexicons — every word in 2 Peter 3:17
One dossier per word, with every reference work grouped by kind — Greek lexicons, morphology, Bible dictionaries, topical chains and the English of the translators themselves. The verse sits at the head of each block with the word under study lit, so you never lose your place. The panel above gives the short answer; this is the long one, and it is the part of the page worth indexing.
Every entry below is the lexicographer's own text. Imported from the CrossWire SWORD modules — Abbott-Smith, the full Liddell-Scott-Jones, Strong's, Dodson, the Intermediate LSJ, Robinson and Packard on the Greek, Webster and Cawdrey on the English the translators were using. Where a cell says a work has no entry, that work genuinely has none for this word.
σύ is the second-person singular pronoun meaning 'you' in Greek. It has various forms: genitive σοῦ, dative σοί, and accusative σέ. The word can be used for emphasis or contrast, particularly in the New Testament, as seen in verses like Matthew 26:64. It also appears in various dialects and has enclitic forms.
σύ,
pron. of 2nd pers.,
thou, you, gen., σοῦ, dat., σοί, acc., σέ, pl., ὑμεῖς, -ῶν, -ῖν, -ᾶς (enclitic in oblique cases sing., except after prep. (BL, §48, 3), though πρὸς σέ occurs in Mt 25:39). Nom. for emphasis or contrast: Jo 1:30, 42 4:10 5:33, 39, 44, Ac 4:7, Eph 5:32; so also perhaps σὺ εἶπας, Mt 26:64, al. (M, Pr., 86); before voc., Mt 2:6, Lk 1:76, Jo 17:5, al.; sometimes without emphasis (M, Pr., 85f.), as also
Read the full entry →σύ, pron. of the second pers. (Dor. and Aeol. τύ, Boeot. Tov), gen. σοῦ, dat. σοί, ace. σέ (which oblique cases are enclitic, unless a preposition precede; yet πρός σε is written [uniformly in Ree. (exe. Mt. xxvi. 18), in Grsb. (exe. Jn. xxi. 22, 23), in Treg. (exc. Mt. xxvi. 18; Acts xxiii. 30), in Lchm. (exe. Mt. xxvi.18; Jn. xvii. 11, 13; xxi. 22, 23; Acts xxiii. 30), in Tdf. (exe. Mt. xxvi. 18; Lk. i. 19; Jn. xvii. 11, 13; Jn. xxi. 22; Acts xxiii. 18, 30; 1 Tim. iii. 14; Tit. iii. 12); also by WH in Mt. xxv. 39], see ἐγώ, 2; Lipsius, Grammat. Untersuch. p. 62 sq. [W. §6, 3; B. 31 (27)]); plur. ὑμεῖς, εἴς. : Lat. tu, ete., vos, ete.; thou, ete., ye,ete. The nominatives ov and ὑμεῖς are expressed for emphasis — before a vocative, as σὺ Βηθλεέμ, Mt. ii. 6; σὺ παιδίον (Leian. dial. deor. 2, 1), Lk. i. 76; add, Jn. xvii. 5; Acts i. 24; 1 Tim. vi. 11, etc.; ὑμεῖς of Φαρισαῖοι, Lk. xi. 39…
Read the full entry →σύ (su) — you.
σύ [ῠ],
thou: pronoun of the second person:—Epic dialect nominative τύνη [ῡ] [Refs 8th c.BC+] (Laconian dialect τούνη [Refs 5th c.AD+]; Aeolic dialect σύ [Refs 7th c.BC+]; Doric dialect τύ [ῠ] [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect τού [short syllable] [Refs 6th c.BC+] (also τούν [Refs]σύ, [Refs 8th c.BC+]—Gen. σοῦ, [Refs], elsewhere only Attic dialect, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; enclitic σου, [Refs 8th c.BC+] (also in Lyric poetry, [Refs 8th c.BC+] (which also occurs in Lyric poetry, [Refs 7th c.BC+], and as enclitic σευ, [Refs 8th c.BC+], σεο (enclitic) [Refs] σευ (enclitic) [Refs]:—Doric dialect τεῦ, τευ, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; rarely τέο, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect τεῦς [Refs 6th c.BC+]; Doric dialect τεοῦς [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοι variant in [Refs]; enclitic τεος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; other Doric dialect forms are τίω, τίως, both [Refs 3rd c.BC+]—Dat. σοί, [Refs 8th c.BC+]…
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su
the person pronoun of the second person singular; thou:-- thou. See
also 4571, 4671, 4675; and for the plural 5209, 5210, 5213, 5216.
see GREEK for 4675
see GREEK for 4571
see GREEK for 4671
see GREEK for 5209
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see GREEK for 5213
see GREEK for 5216
σύ, σοῦ, σοί, σέ
Pers.pr.
you
σύ sy 2x
you, gen., σοῦ, dat., σοί, acc., σέ, Mt. 1:20; 2:6
Pron-2NP — Personal pronoun · second person · nominative · pluralnominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked plural.
P-2NP Part of Speech: Personal pronoun Person: second Case: Nominative Number: Plural
3,073 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 37 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 2,892 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.
← what comes before
what comes after →
branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path
16 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →
Counted over the 450 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.
„οὐ φυτεύσεις σεαυτῷ ἄλσος, πᾶν ξύλον παρὰ τὸ θυσιαστήριον κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ σου οὐ ποιήσεις σεαυτῷ“ (Deuter.
παύσομαι δὲ τοῦ λοιποῦ μετὰ τοσαύτης ὀργῆς τὰς τιμωρίας ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀδικήμασιν εἰσπραττόμενος καὶ πολὺ μᾶλλον σοῦ παρακαλοῦντος.
Μεγάλων μὲν ὄντων καὶ πλουσίων τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ δικαιωμάτων εἰς ὑμᾶς, ὑπέρ τι καὶ καθ̓ ὑπερβολὴν ὑπερευφραίνομαι ἐπὶ τοῖς μακαρίοις καὶ ἐνδόξοις ὑμῶν πνεύμασιν: οὕτως ἔμφυτον τῆς δωρεᾶς πνευματικῆς χάριν εἰλήφατε.
τοῦ ἀποδοθῆι τὸν ἐπεσταλμένον ἡμῖν κατὰ μῆνα πυρὸν τοῖς παρʼ ἡμῶν. διʼ ἄλλων γεγράφαμεν ὑμῖν ὑπὲρ ὧν βουλόμεθα μηδεμιᾶς προσφωνήσεως προσπεπτωκυίας. ἑαυτῶν δὲ ἐπιμελόμενοι ἵνʼ ὑγιαίνητε, — ἔσμεν ἐν
η Φατρήους καὶ … χαίρειν καὶ ἐρρωμένοις διευτυχεῖν. ἐρρώμεθα δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ ὑμῶν τὴν ἀρίστην μνείαν ποιούμενοι παρὰ τοῖς ἐν Πηλουσίωι θεοῖς. καλῶς ποιήσεις διαλύσας Ἁρκοννῆσιν καὶ
παρὰ Πετεύριος διεθέντος μου ὑπάρξει σοι εἰς στέφανον χαλκοῦ τάλαντα δεκάπεντε, τάλαντα ιε. εὐτύχει .
The Greek word οὖν (oun) is a particle used to express consequence, sequence, or to resume a narrative. It translates to 'therefore,' 'then,' or 'accordingly,' and appears frequently in the New Testament, such as in Matthew 3:10 and Romans 5:9. It can also serve in exhortations and questions, indicating what follows logically from previous statements.
οὖν,
particle expressing consequence or simple sequence (never standing first in a sentence),
wherefore, therefore, then: Mt 3:10, Lk 3:9, Jo 8:38, Ac 1:21, Ro 5:9, al.; in exhortations, Mt 3:8, Lk 11:35, Ac 3:19, Ro 6:12, al.; in questions, Mt 13:28, Mk 15:12, Jo 8:[5], Ro 6:1, al.; continuing a…
Read the full entry →οὖν ἃ conj. indicating that something follows from another necessarily; [al. regard the primary force of the particle as confirmatory or continuative, rather than illative; cf. Passow, or L.andS.s. v.; Kiihner § 508, 1 ii. p- 707 sqq.; Biiumlein p. 173 sqq.; Kriiger § 69, 52; Donaldson p. 571; Rost in a program “ Ueber Ableitung ” u.s.w. p.2; Klotz p. 717; Hartung ii. 4]. Hence it is used in drawing a conclusion and in connecting sentences together logically, then, therefore, accordingly, consequently, these things being so, [ (Klotz, Rost, al., have wished to derive the word fr. the neut. ptep. ὄν (cf. ὄντως) ; but see Baumlein or Kiihner u.s.); ef. W. § 53, 8]: Mt. iii. 10; x. 32 (since persecutions are not to be dreaded, and consequently furnish no excuse for denying me [οἵ. W. 455 (424)]); Mt. xviii. 4; Lk. iii.9; xvi. 27; In. viii. 38 (καὶ ὑμεῖς οὖν, and ye accordingly, i. e.…
Read the full entry →οὖν. This common particle, which occurs in the NT nearly 500 times, is used in our sources in a variety of connexions, the exact shade of meaning being determined by the context. (1) For the causal meaning ‘‘therefore” we may cite BGU II. 423" (ii/aA.p.) (= Sevectzons, p. 91) Kal καλῶς pol ἐστιν. ἐρωτῶ ce οὖν, κύριέ pou πατήρ, γράψον μοι ἐπιστόλιον πρῶτον μὲν περὶ τῆς σωτηρίας σου... , “it is well with me. I beg you, therefore, my lord father, write me a letter, first regarding your health ... ,” and P Oxy XIV. 16651 (iii/A.D.), where a son in urgent need of oil writes to his father—dvayxalws οὖν, ἐὰν ἔτι παρὰ σεαυτῷ χρ[ἴ]ον ἔχῃς, δήλωσον ἢ τῷ vie σου ἢ ᾧ ἐὰν σὺ βούλῃ τούτους μοι ἐν τάχει παρα[σ]χεῖν, ‘perforce, therefore, if you have still with you any unguent, instruct your son or any one else you wish to supply me with them speedily ” (Edd.). (2) Οὖν is very common in a looser…
Read the full entry →οὖν (oun) — therefore/then.
οὖν,
Ionic dialect and Doric dialect ὦν (the latter in [Refs 8th c.BC+], adverb certainly, in fact, confirming something, frequently in contrast with something which is not confirmed, in [Refs 8th c.BC+] only in combination with γε (see. γοῦν), γάρ, οὔτε or μήτε, ὡς, ἐπεί, μέν, etc.:
1. really, φημὶ γὰρ οὖν κατανεῦσαι.. Κρονίωνα for I declare that Zeus did really promise.., [Refs 8th c.BC+]; τόφρα γὰρ οὖν ἑπόμεσθα.., ὄφρ᾽ for we followed them up to the very point, where.., [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐλέχθησαν λόγοι ἄπιστοι μὲν ἐνίοισι Ἑλλήνων, ἐλέχθησαν δ᾽ ὦν but they really were spoken, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Θηβαῖοι μὲν ταῦτα λέγουσι.., Πλαταιῆς δ᾽ οὐχ ὁμολογοῦσι.., ἐκ δ᾽ οὖν τῆς γῆς ἀνεχώρησαν at all events they did return, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; so δ᾽ οὖν after a parenthesis; εἰ δή τις ὑμῶν οὕτως ἔχει,—οὐκ ἀξιῶ μὲν γὰρ ἔγωγε,—εἰ…
οὖν
oun
apparently a primary word; (adverbially) certainly, or
(conjunctionally) accordingly:--and (so, truly), but, now (then), so
(likewise then), then, therefore, verily, wherefore.
οὖν
Cj.
therefore, then
οὖν really, at all events, used like γοῦν to dismiss a perplexing subject, οὔτ᾽ οὖν ἀγγελίῃς ἔτι πείθομαι, οὔτε θεοπροπίης ἐμπάζομαι Od.; ἐλέχθησαν λόγοι ἄπιστοι μὲν ἐνίοισι Ἑλλήνων, ἐλέχθησαν δ᾽ ὦν but they really were spoken, Hdt.; εἴτ᾽ οὖν, εἴτε μὴ γενήσεται whether it shall be really so, or no, Eur.; εἴτ᾽ οὖν ἀληθὲς εἴτ᾽ οὖν ψεῦδος Plat.; εἰ δ᾽ ἔστιν, ὥσπερ οὖν ἔστι, θεός if he is, as he surely is, a god, id. Plat.
added to indef. Pronouns and Advs., like Lat. cunque, ὅστις whoever, ὁστισοῦν whosoever; ὅπως how, ὁπωσοῦν howsoever; ἄλλος ὁστισοὖν another, be he who he may; so, ὁποιοσοῦν, ὁποσοσοῦν, ὁπωσοῦν, ὁποθενοῦν…
Read the full entry →Conj — Conjunctionconjunction — it joins clauses, and never changes form.
CONJ CONJunction or conjunctive particle
539 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 5 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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Counted over the 110 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.
τὸ μὲν οὖν κάλλος τῶν νοημάτων τῆς κοσμοποιίας οὐδεὶς οὔτε ποιητὴς οὔτε λογογράφος ἀξίως ἂν ὑμνῆσαι δύναιτο·
ἤδη μὲν οὖν καὶ πρότερον διενοήθην, ὅτε τὸν πόλεμον συνέγραφον, δηλῶσαι τίνες ὄντες ἐξ ἀρχῆς Ἰουδαῖοι καὶ τίσι χρησάμενοι τύχαις ὑφʼ οἵῳ τε παιδευθέντες νομοθέτῃ τὰ πρὸς εὐσέβειαν καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ἄσκησιν ἀρετῆς πόσους τε πολέμους ἐν μακροῖς…
πεπεισμένος οὖν τοῦτο καὶ συνειδὼς ἐμαυτῷ, ὅτι ἐν ὑμῖν λαλήσας πολλὰ ἐπίσταμαι, ὅτι ἐμοὶ συνώδευσεν ἐν ὁδῷ δικαιοσύνης κύριος, καὶ πάντως ἀναγκάζομαι κἀγὼ εἰς τοῦτο, ἀγαπᾶν ὑμᾶς ὑπὲρ τὴν ψυχήν μου, ὅτι μεγάλη πίστις καὶ ἀγάπη ἐγκατοικεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν ἐπ’…
χαίρειν. τοῦ παρʼ Ἑρμώνακτος τῶν ὁμοτίμων τοῖς συγγενέσι καὶ ὑποδιοικητοῦ χρηματισμοῦ ἀντίγραφον ὑπόκειται. κατακολουθήσας οὖν τοῖς διʼ αὐτοῦ σημαινομένοις χρημάτισον ἀπὸ τῆς ἐν Παθύρει τραπέζης, συνυπογράφοντος Φίβιος τοῦ…
δὲ καὶ αὐτοί. μεταλαβόντες τοὺς συντετελεσμένους πρὸς τοὺς ἀσεβεῖς Ἑρμωνθίτας ἀγῶνας μεγάλως ἐχάρημεν. ἐπεὶ οὖν προκεχειρίκαμεν προστάτην τοῦ μεγίστου θεοῦ Νεχθφαραῦτος βεα … ρων … δια … στρατιωτῶν
ἐπιβεβληκέναι εἰς Μέμφιν, Ἱέρακα δὲ προκεχειρίσθαι μετὰ δυνάμεων μυρίων ἐπὶ καταστολὴν τῆς Θηβαίδος. ὅπως οὖν εἰδότες εὐθαρσεῖς ὑπάρχητε ἐκρίναμεν σημῆναι. ἔρρωσθε ἔτους λ Φαῶφι ιθ
The Greek word ἀγαπητός (*agapetos*) means 'beloved' or 'dear,' derived from the verb ἀγαπάω (*agapaō*). It is used in the New Testament to describe Jesus as beloved by God (e.g., Mt 3:17) and to refer to Christians as beloved among one another (e.g., Ro 1:7). The word also appears in various forms of address, highlighting its affectionate connotation.
ἀγαπητός, -ή, -όν
(< ἀγαπάω),
[in LXX chiefly for יָתִיד, יָדִיד;]
beloved (v. M, Pr., 221);
by God: of Christ, Mt 3:17; of men, Ro 1:7;
by Christians, of one another: I Co 4:14; freq. as form of address, I Co 10:14; opp. to ἐχθρός, Ro 11:28 (v. AR, Eph., 229; Cremer, 17; MM, VGT, s.v.).
ἀγαπητός, τή, -dv, (ἀγαπάω), beloved, esteemed, dear, favorite; (opp. to ἐχθρός, Ro. xi. 28): 6 vids μου (τοῦ Θεοῦ) ὁ ἀγαπητός, of Jesus, the Messiah, Mt. 111. 17 "Ayap fhere WH mrg. take ὁ dy. absol., connecting it with what follows]; xii. 18; xvii. 5; Mk. i. 11; ix. 7; Lk. iii. 22; ix. 35 (where Lmrg. T Tr WH ὁ ἐκλελεγμένος) ; 2 Pet. i. 17, cf. Mk. xii. 6; Lk. xx. 13; [cf. Ascensio Isa. (ed. Dillmann) vii. 23 sq.; viii. 18, 25,ete.]. dyaπητοὶ Θεοῦ [W. 194 (182 sq.) ; B. 190 (165)] is applied to Christians as being reconciled to God and judged by him to be worthy of eternal life: Ro. i. 7, οἵ. xi. 28; 1 Th. i. 4; Col. iii. 12, (Sept., Ps. lix. (Ix.) 7; evii. (eviii.) 7; exxvi. (exxvii.) 2, ἀγαπητοί σου and αὐτοῦ, of pious Israelites). But Christians, bound together by mutual love, are ἀγαπητοί also to one another (Philem. 16; 1 Tim. vi. 2); hence they are dignified with this epithet…
Read the full entry →ἀγαπητός. For the use of this characteristic NT designation in the Christian papyri, see for example the address of the muchdiscussed letter of Psenosiris P Grenf II. 73 (late iii/a.p.) (= Selections, p. 117), ᾿Απόλλωνι πρεσβυτέρῳ ἀγαπητῷ ἀδελφῷ ἐν K(upl)w χαίρειν. So P Lond 417} (c. Α.1.. 346) (ΞΞ 11. p. 299, Sevectéons, Ὁ. 123), P Heid 67 (iv/a.D.) (= Selections, p. 125) α΄. The word is also found in a horoscope of A.D. 20-50 addressed to a certain Tryphon—P Oxy II. 235°, Τρύφων ἀγᾳπετέ : he may of course have been a Jew— see on the fem. T'pvpatwa below.
ἀγαπητός (agapētos) — beloved.
ἀγαπ-ητός, ή, όν,
Doric dialect ἀγαπ-ᾱτός, ά, όν, that wherewith one must be content [Refs], hence of only children, μοῦνος ἐὼν ἀ.[NT+8th c.BC+]; ἀγαπητός· μονογενής, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
2. to be acquiesced in (as the least in a choice of evils), [Refs 5th c.BC+] —hence, ἀγαπητόν [ἐστι] one must be content, εἰ.., ἐάν.. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; with infinitive, [Refs]
II. of things, desirable, ἤθη[Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. of persons, beloved, ἀδελφὲ ἀγαπητέ[LXX]: in letters, as a term of address, [NT]
III. adverb -τῶς gladly, contentedly, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III.2. just enough to content one, barely, scarcely, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
ἀγαπητός
agapetos
from 25; beloved:--(dearly, well) beloved, dear.
see GREEK for 25
ἀγαπητός, ή, όν
Adj
loved, beloved
ἀγαπητός agapētos 61x
beloved, dear; worthy of love
ἀγαπητός verb. adj. ἀγαπάω, beloved, of an only son, Hom., Dem.
of things, worthy of love, loveable, dear, Plat., etc.
to be acquiesced in (as the least in a choice of evils), ἀγαπητόν [ἐστι] one must be content, εἰ.., ἐάν.., id. Plat., Xen., etc.
adv. -τῶς, cheerfully, contentedly, Plat., Dem., etc.
just enough to content one, only just, barely, scarcely, Plat.
Adj-VPM — Adjective · vocative · plural · masculinevocative — the one being addressed.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
A-VPM Part of Speech: Adjective Case: Vocative Number: Plural Gender: Masculine
be-luv'-ed, be-luv'-d' (agapetos): A term of affectionate endearment common to both Testaments; in the Old Testament found, 26 out of 42 times, in Solomon's So of Love. Limited chiefly to two Heb words and their derivatives: 'ahebh, "to breathe" or "long for," hence, to love, corresponding to the New Testament, agapao, "to prefer," i.e. a love based on respect and benevolent regard; dodh, "love," chiefly love between the sexes, based on sense and emotion, akin to phileo (Latin amare). Used occasionally, in their nobler sense, interchangeably, e.g. the former of a husband's love for his wife (De 21:15,16); twice of a lover (So 1:14,16), thus lifting the affection of the So of Solomon out of mere amorousness into the realm of the spiritual and possibly Messianic. Both words used of…
61 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 1 different way. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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Counted over the 13 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.
ἀγαπητὸν οὖν ἐστιν ἀντιβῆναι καὶ μαχέσασθαι τῷ γένει τῆς ἐπιθυμίας.
νῦν γὰρ ἔστιν ἀνδρείως ἀγωνισαμένοις τὴν ἐλευθερίαν ἀπολαβεῖν, ἣν καὶ διʼ αὐτὴν ἅπασιν ἀγαπητὴν οὖσαν ὑμῖν ὑπὲρ ἐξουσίας τοῦ θρησκεύειν τὸ θεῖον ποθεινοτέραν εἶναι συμβέβηκεν.
Ταῦτα, ἀγαπητοί, οὐ μόνον ὑμᾶς νουθετοῦντες ἐπιστέλλομεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἑαυτοὺς ὑπομιμνήσκοντες: ἐν γὰρ τῷ αὐτῷ ἐσμὲν σκάμματι, καὶ ὁ αὐτὸς ἡμῖν ἀγὼν ἐπίκειται.
r τῷ ἀγαπητῷ ἀδελφῷ … Σανσνῶτι καὶ Ἀπο … τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ
r,ctr τῷ ἀγαπητῷ ἀδελφῷ ἄπα Παιηοῦ καὶ Παταβεὶτ πρεσβυτέροις Καλλιστος ἐν κυρίῳ θεῷ χαίρειν. γινώσκειν ὑμᾶς θέλομεν
r,ctr τοῖς παναγίοις ἀγαπητοῖς καὶ γλυκυτάτοις Παιηοῦτι πρεσβυτέρῳ καὶ Διοσκόρῳ καὶ Ἱέρακι καὶ … καὶ ἄπα Σουροῦ καὶ
προγινώσκω is a verb meaning to know beforehand or foreknow, derived from the components of 'before' and 'know.' It appears in the New Testament in contexts related to divine foreknowledge, such as Romans 8:29 and 1 Peter 1:20. The lexicons note its use in both a general and a theological sense, with some suggesting it can imply a designation to future roles or privileges.
** προ-γινώσκω,
[in LXX: Wi 6:13 8:8 18:6*;]
to know beforehand, foreknow: II Pe 3:17; c. acc. pers., Ac 26:5; of the Divine foreknowledge, Ro 8:29 11:2, I Pe 1:20.†
προ-γινώσκω; 2 aor. 3 pers. sing. προέγνω ; pf. pass. ptep. προεγνωσμένος ; to have knowledge of beforehand ; 0 foreknow : se. ταῦτα, 2 Pet. iii. 17, cf. 14, 16; τινά, Acts xXxvi. 55 ots προέγνω, whom he (God) foreknew, sc. that they would love him, or (with reference to what follows) whom he foreknew to be fit to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, Ro. viii. 29 (τῶν εἰς αὐτὸν [Χριστὸν] πιστεύειν προεγνωσμένων, Justin M. dial. c. Tr. c. 42; προγινώσκει [ὁ θεός] τινας ἐκ μετανοίας σωθήσεσθαι μέλλοντας, id. apol. i. 28); ὃν προέγνω, whose character he clearly saw beforehand, Ro. xi. [1 Lehm. in br.], 2, (against those who in the preceding passages fr. Ro. explain προγινώσκειν as meaning to predestinate, cf. Meyer, Philippi, Van Hengel); προεγνωσμένου, sc. ὑπὸ tov θεοῦ (foreknown by God, although not yet ‘made manifest’ to men), 1 Pet. i. 20. (Sap. vi. 14; viii. 8; xviii. 6; Eur.…
Read the full entry →προγινώσκω. For this verb = ‘‘ foreknow,” ‘‘ know previously,” as in the Apocrypha (Sap 6! a/.) and 2 Pet 3}7, cf. BGU IV. 11418 (B.c. 14) διὰ τὸ προεγνωκέναι (corrected from προεγνωκώς) pe περὶ τῶν ϑακτυλιδίῳων. In 1 Pet 1°° Hort (Comm. ad /.) thinks the meaning is rather ‘‘ designate before ” to a position or function, ?
προγινώσκω (proginōskō) — to know/choose.
προγιγνώσκω,
Ionic dialect and later προγεωργ-γῑνώσκω: future -γνώσομαι: Epic dialect aorist infinitive προγνώμεναι [Refs]:—know, perceive, learn, or understand beforehand, τι [same place]; τὰ στοιχεῖα [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—in Medicine texts, know before being told, declare unaided, τά τε παρεόντα καὶ τὰ προγεγονότα καὶ τὰ μέλλοντα ἔσεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. prognosticate, π. χειμῶνα αἱ μέλιτται [Refs 4th c.BC+]
3. foreknow, λαόν [NT]
4. with genitive, π. τῶν θεῶν learn things in advance of.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II. judge beforehand, ἐς τὸ μέλλον καλὸν π. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; provide, τι [Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, παρὰ τῷ διαιτητῇ προεγνωσμένος ἀδικεῖν judged beforehand to have done…
προγινώσκω
proginosko
from 4253 and 1097; to know beforehand, i.e. foresee:--foreknow
(ordain), know (before).
see GREEK for 4253
see GREEK for 1097
προγινώσκω
v.
I know beforehand
προγινώσκω proginōskō 5x
to know beforehand, to be previously acquainted with, Acts 26:5; 2 Pet. 3:17; to determine on beforehand, to foreordain, 1 Pet. 1:20; in NT, from the Hebrew, to foreknow, to appoint as the subject of future privileges, Rom. 8:29; 11:2*
Verb-PAP-NPM — Verb · present · active · participle · nominative · plural · masculinenominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
V-PAP-NPM Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Present Voice: Active Mood: Participle Case: Nominative Number: Plural Gender: Masculine
5 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 4 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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ἐκ δὲ τῆς Ἰσαχάρου φυλῆς διακόσιοι μὲν οἱ προγινώσκοντες τὰ μέλλοντα, ὁπλῖται δὲ δισμύριοι.
φυλάσσω is built from the root idea of watching or guarding. It covers a range of meanings including to guard, protect, observe, and keep oneself from something. In the New Testament, it appears in contexts like guarding a person or thing (Acts 12:4), preserving teachings (2 Timothy 1:14), and being on one's guard (Luke 12:15). The lexicons do not show significant disagreement.
φυλάσσω
[in LXX chiefly and very freq. for שָׁמַר, also for נָצַר, etc. ;]
to guard, watch;
to guard or watch: c. cogn. acc., φυλακάς, Lk 2:8; c. acc. pers., Ac 12:4 28:16; pass., Lk 8:29, Ac 23:35; c. acc. rei, Ac 22:20;
to guard or protect: c. acc., Lk 11:21, Jo 12:25 17:12, II Th 3:3, I Ti 6:20, II Ti 1:12, 14, II Pe 2:5; ἑαυτὸν ἀπό…
φυλάσσω ; fut. φυλάξω; 1 aor. ἐφύλαξα; Mid., pres. φυλάσσομαι; 1 aor. ἐφυλαξάμην ; pres. pass. φυλάσσομαι ; fr. Hom. down; Sept. times too many to count for >3¥, occasionally for 7¥3, [ete.]; 1. Act. to guard (Lat. custodio) ; i. e. a. to watch, to keep watch: with φυλακήν added, Lk. ii. 8 (see φυλακή, a.). b. to guard or watch, have an eye upon: twa, one, lest he escape, Acts xii. 4; xxviii. 16; pass., Acts xxiii. 35 ; Lk. viii. 29; τί, any thing, lest it be carried off: τὰ ἱμάτια, Acts xxii. 20. c. to guard a person (or thing) that he may remain safe, i.e. lest he suffer violence, be despoiled, ete., i.q. to protect: τὴν αὐλήν, Lk. xi. 21; ἀπό twos, to protect one from a pers. or thing, 2 Th. iii. 3 [see πονηρός, p- 531°], (Xen. Cyr. 1, 4, 7; Ps. exl. (exli.) 9; cf. B. § 147, 3; [W. 223 (209)]); τὴν παραθήκην (or παρακαταθήκην), to keep from being snatched away, preserve safe and…
Read the full entry →φυλάσσω, (1) “* guard,” ‘‘protect” : P Par 665" (i/B.c.) πρεσβύτεροι οἱ TA χώματα Kal περιχώματα φυλάσσοντες, P Oxy VI. 924" (iv/a.D.) ἢ μὴν φυλάξῃς καὶ συντηρήσῃς ᾿Αρίας ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐπιημερινοῦ (1. ᾿Αρίαν. .. τῆς ἐφημερινῆς) φρικός, ‘verily guard and protect Aria from ague by day” (Edd.). (2) ‘‘keep,” ‘‘observe”: Cagnat IV. 66138 (a.1. 85) τοῦτο δὲ τὸ ψήφισμα νενομοθετῆσθαι τῷ αἰῶνι τῆς Ρωμαίων ἡγεμονίας φυλαχθησόμενον (cf. Ac γ58, a/.), P Ryl IL. 1771! (A.D. 246) τὸ δὲ ὑπηλλαγμένον [ἥμισυ μέρος οἰκίας φυ]λάξομ(εν) ἀνεξαλλοτρίωτον, “the mortgaged half share of the house we will preserve unalienated” (Edd.). Cf. also P Ryl II. 116%° (A.D. 194) λόγου por φυλασσομένου περὶ ὧν ἔχω δικαίων πάντων, ‘account being kept of all my claims” (Edd.), 74. 868 (A.D. 195) λόγου φυλασσομένου τῇ πόλει re[pht [o]d [ἔχει παντὸς δ[ικαίο]ν, ‘‘ without prejudice to any right claimed by the city” (Edd.). The verb…
Read the full entry →φυλάσσω (phulassō) — to keep/guard: observe.
φῠλάσσω,
Attic dialect φυλάττω, Epic dialect infinitive φυλασσέμεναι [Refs 8th c.BC+]; poetry imperfect φύλασσε [Refs 5th c.BC+]: future φυλάξω [Refs 8th c.BC+]aorist ἐφύλαξα, Epic dialect φύλ- [Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect πεφύλᾰχα [LXX+5th c.BC+]:—middle, future -άξομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+]; also in passive sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐφυλαξάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, future -αχθήσομαι[Refs 1st c.BC+]: aorist ἐφυλάχθην [Refs 2nd c.AD+]: perfect πεφύλαγμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; imperative, only in middle sense in early writers, πεφύλαξο [Refs 8th c.BC+]; participle, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
Read the full entry →φυλάσσω
phulasso
probably from 5443 through the idea of isolation; to watch, i.e. be on
guard (literally of figuratively); by implication, to preserve, obey,
avoid:--beward, keep (self), observe, save. Compare 5083.
see GREEK for 5443
see GREEK for 5083
φυλάσσω
v.
I keep, guard, observe
φυλάσσω phylassō 31x
to be on watch, keep watch, Lk. 2:8; to have in keeping, Acts 20:20; to have in custody, Acts 28:16; to keep under restraint, confine, Lk. 8:29; Acts 12:4; 23:35; to guard, defend, Lk. 11:21; to keep safe, preserve, Jn. 12:25; 17:12; 2 Thess. 3:3; 2 Pet. 2:5; Jude 24; to keep in abstinence, Acts 21:25; Read the full entry →
φυλάσσω Root ΦΥΛΑΚ absol. to keep watch and ward, keep guard, Hom., attic; σὺν κυσὶ φυλάσσοντες περὶ μῆλα Il.
trans. to watch, guard, keep, defend, Hom., etc.; φυλάττειν τινὰ ἀπό τινος to guard one from a person or thing, Xen.:—also φ. τινὰ μὴ πάσχειν to guard one against suffering, Soph.:—Pass. to be watched, kept under guard, Hdt.
to watch for, lie in wait or ambush for, Hom., Thuc.; φ. τὸ σύμβολον to look out for the signal-fire, Aesch.: to watch, to wait for, observe an appointed time or a fixed event, Hdt., Thuc.; φ. νύκτα to wait for night, Thuc.
metaph. to keep, maintain, cherish, χόλον, ὅρκια Il.; φ. ἔπος to observe a command, id. Il.; νόμον Soph.; φ. σκαιοσύναν to cling to it, foster it, id. Soph.:—Pass., φυλάττεσθαι παρά τινι to be fostered in or by . . , id.…
Verb-PMM-2P — Verb · present · middle · imperative · second person · pluralpresent middle imperative — an action in progress.
V-PMM-2P Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Present Voice: Middle Mood: iMperative Person: second Number: Plural
31 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 23 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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„Καὶ ἐξέβαλε τὸν Ἀδὰμ καὶ κατῴκισεν ἀπέναντι τοῦ παραδείσου τῆς τρυφῆς [καὶ ἔταξε] τὰ Χερουβὶμ καὶ τὴν φλογίνην ῥομφαίαν τὴν στρεφομένην, φυλάσσειν τὴν ὁδὸν τοῦ ξύλου τῆς ζωῆς“ (Gen.
μάρτυς δέ μου τῷ λόγῳ μία τῶν ἐν Κύπρῳ πόλεων ἰσχύσασα τὴν προσηγορίαν φυλάξαι·
ἐφ̓ ὅσον ἐστὶν ἐν ἡμῖν, μελετῶμεν τὸν φόβον τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ φυλάσσειν ἀγωνιζώμεθα τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ, ἵνα ἐν τοῖς δικαιώμασιν αὐτοῦ εὐφρανθῶμεν.
τὴν ἀπὸ ἀπηλιώτου ἄφεσιν ἱερέων. οἱ τέσσαρες ἱερεῖς τῶν ἀπὸ Τεβτύνεως τῆς Πολέμωνος μερίδος φυλάσσοντες τὰς προκιμένας ἀφέσεις δύο ὀμνύομεν Τιβέριον Καίσαρα Σεβαστὸν Νέον Αὐτοκράτορα θεοῦ Σεβαστοῦ υἱὸν εἶ
Ἀπίωνι σιτολόγωι. ὀβολοὶ ι ἑτέρα χειρογραφία Παπνεβτύνεως καὶ ἄλλων εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν περὶ … φυλάσσειν τροφάς. ὀβολοὶ γ. … … ὑπομνημάτιον Ὀννόφριος πρὸς Σισένξιν ἀποχῆς φερνῆς δραχμῶν ιϛ. ὀβολοὶ
πάντων σωτῆρα καὶ εὐεργέτην, ἐὰν φαίνηται, γράψαι τῶι τοῦ νομοῦ στρατηγῶι Ἀσινιανῶι ἀπαρανοχλήτους ἡμᾶς φυλάξαι καὶ ἐπισχεῖν μέχρι τῆς σῆς διαγνώσεως ἐπὶ διαλογισμοῦ τοῦ νομοῦ ἄνω, ἵνʼ ὦμεν εὐεργετημένοι.
The Greek word ἵνα is primarily a conjunction meaning 'in order that' or 'that,' indicating purpose or intention. It can also function as an adverb of place, meaning 'where' or 'whither.' In the New Testament, it appears in various contexts, often introducing clauses that express purpose, such as in Matthew 1:22. The lexicons do not show significant disagreement on its meanings or usages.
ἵνα, I. an adv. of Place. fr. Hom. down, esp. in the poets; a. where; in what place. b. to what place; whither. Of the former signification C. F. A. Fritzsche (on Mt. p. 836; differently in Fritzschiorum Opusce. p. 186 sqq-.) thought he had found two examples in bibl. Greek, and H. A. W. Meyer agrees with him. The first viz. iva μὴ φυσιοῦσθε, 1 Co. iv. 6, they explain thus: where (i. e. in which state of things viz. when ye have leatned from my example to think humbly of yourselves) the one is not exalted to the other’s disadvantage; the second, iva αὐτοὺς ζηλοῦτε, Gal. iv. 17, thus: where ye zealously court them; but see II. 1 d. below. “ iva I. a final Conjunction (for from local direction, indicated by the adverb, the transition was easy te mental direction or intention) denoting pur pose and end: to the intent that; to the end that, in order that; ἵνα pn, that not, lest; it is used…
Read the full entry →ἵνα (hina) — in order that/to.
ἵνα,
adverb,
I. of Place,
I.1. in that place, there, once in [Refs 8th c.BC+]
I.2. elsewhere relative, in which place, where,[Refs 8th c.BC+]: rarely in Attic dialect Prose, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἵ. ἡ Νίκη (i.e. ἐστίν) [Refs 8th c.BC+] [same place]; ἵν᾽ ἄν with subjunctive, wherever, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; as indirect interrogative, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
I.2. b after [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἔμαθε ἵ. ἦν κακοῦ in what a calamity, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἵν᾽ ἕσταμεν χρείας[Refs 5th c.BC+]
I.2. c with Verbs of motion, whither, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
II. of circumstance, γάμος.., ἵ. χρή at which, when, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἵ. μὲν ἐξῆν αὐτοῖς.., ἐνταῦθα.. when it was in their power, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. ={ἐάν}, uncertain in [Refs 8th c.BC+]
ἵνα
hina
probably from the same as the former part of 1438 (through the
demonstrative idea; compare 3588); in order that (denoting the purpose
or the result):--albeit, because, to the intent (that), lest, so as,
(so) that, (for) to. Compare 3363.
see GREEK for 1438
see GREEK for 3588
see GREEK for 3363
ἵνα
Cj.
in order that, so that
ἵνα Adverb,
of Place,
demonstr. in that place, there, only in Il. 10. 127.
relat., = ὅπου, in which place, where, Hdt., etc.;—so, ἵνα τε Il.; ἵνα περ Hom.:—c. gen., ἵνα γῆς in whatever part of the land, Hdt.; ἔμαθε ἵνα ἦν κακοῦ in what a calamity, id. Hdt.; οὐχ ὁρᾷς ἵν᾽ εἶ κακοῦ Soph.
= ὅποι, with Verbs of motion, whither, Od.; ὁρᾷς ἵν᾽ ἥκεις Soph.
of circumstance, when, at which, Od.
Final Conjunction, = ὅπως, that, in order that, Lat. ut, Hom.:
with subj.,
after principal tenses of ind., id. Hom., etc.
after historical tenses, in similes, where the aor. refers to any possible time, Od.
after opt. and ἄν, ἔδωκε μένος, ἵνα γένοιτο she gave him vigour, that he might become, Il.
with opt., after historical tenses, Hom., etc.
Conj — Conjunctionconjunction — it joins clauses, and never changes form.
CONJ CONJunction or conjunctive particle
677 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 10 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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Every reference is on the Strong's page.
Counted over the 300 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.
ἑκάστῃ δὲ τῶν ἡμερῶν ἀπένειμεν ἔνια τῶν τοῦ παντὸς τμημάτων τὴν πρώτην ὑπεξελόμενος, ἣν αὐτὸς οὐδὲ πρώτην, ἵνα μὴ ταῖς ἄλλαις συγκαταριθμῆται, καλεῖ, μίαν δ’ ὀνομάσας ὀνόματι εὐθυβόλῳ προσαγορεύει, τὴν μονάδος φύσιν καὶ πρόσρησιν ἐνιδών τε καὶ…
ἵνα καὶ τῆς πλινθίνης ἀφανισθείσης ὑπὸ τῆς ἐπομβρίας ἡ λιθίνη μείνασα παράσχῃ μαθεῖν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τὰ ἐγγεγραμμένα δηλοῦσα καὶ πλινθίνην ὑπʼ αὐτῶν ἀνατεθῆναι.
λογισάμενος οὖν τοῦτο, ὅτι ἐὰν μελήσῃ μοι περὶ ὑμῶν τοῦ μέρος τι μεταδοῦναι ἀφ̓ οὗ ἔλαβον, ὅτι ἔσται μοι τοιούτοις πνεύμασιν ὑπηρετήσαντι εἰς μισθόν, ἐσπούδασα κατὰ μικρὸν ὑμῖν πέμπειν, ἵνα μετὰ τῆς πίστεως ὑμῶν τελείαν ἔχητε τὴν γνῶσιν.
καὶ θεῶν μὴ ὀκνήσῃς διελθὼν εἰς ἐμπόριον καὶ ἀγοράσας, οὐθὲν γὰρ ἄλλο ἡμᾶς ἐπικωλύει, ἵνα μὴ ὑστερήσωμεν τῆς ἐργασίας. τὰς δὲ τιμὰς τούτων λαβὲ παρὰ Ἀπολλοφάνους. τὸ γύναιον ἐπίτοκον
vestiges … ἵνα μηθὲν ἐν τούτοις ἀγνοηθῆι … … Ἑρμίαι τῶν διαδόχων καὶ ἐπιμελητῆι, παρὰ Δρύτωνος τοῦ
ἕκαστος τῶν παρὰ σοὶ σιτοποιησάμενος πυροῦ ἀρτάβην μίαν ἐν ἑτοίμωι ἔσται αὐτοῖς ὁ ἄρτος, ἵνα δὲ καὶ κριθὴ ὑπάρξηι ἐπιμε … … ηγησαιἐμμέτρως αἴτησαιἐμμε … … τησαι ἔρρωσο ἔτους
μή (mē) is a Greek negative particle used to express subjective negation, often in conditional or hypothetical contexts. It contrasts with οὐ (ou), which indicates absolute denial. μή can function as an adverb meaning 'not' or as a conjunction meaning 'lest.' It appears in various grammatical constructions, including prohibitions and deliberative questions, and is referenced in verses like Matthew 5:29 and John 3:18.
μή,
subjective negative particle,
used where the negation depends on a condition or hypothesis, expressed or understood, as distinct from οὐ, which denies absolutely. μή is used where one thinks a thing is not, as distinct from an absolute negation. As a general rule, οὐ negatives the indic., μή the other moods, incl, ptcp. [In LXX for אֵין, אַיִן, אַל.]
As a neg. adv., not;
with ref. to thought or opinion: Jo 3:18, Tit 1:11, II Pe 1:9.
μή, Sept. for Ox, |X, PN, ἃ particle of negation, which differs from οὐ (which is always an adverb) in that ov denies the thing itself (orto speak technically, denies simply, absolutely, categorically, directly, objectively). but μή denies the thought of the thing, or the thing according to the judgment, opinion, will, purpose, preference, of some one (hence, as we say technically, indirectly, hypothetically, subjectively). This distinction holds also of the compounds οὐδείς, μηδείς, οὐκέτι, μηκέτι, ete. But pris either an ad verb of negation, not (Lat. non, ne); or aconjunction, that... not, lest, (Lat. ne); or an interrogative particle, (Lat. num) [i. e. (generally) implying aneg. ans.; in indir. quest. whether nol (suggesting apprehension) ]. Cf. Herm. ad Vig. § 267 p- 802 sqq-; Matthiae § 608; Bitm. Gram. § 148 (cf. Alex. Bttm. N. T. Gr. p. 344 (296) sqq.); Kiihner ii. §§ 512 sq. p.…
Read the full entry →μή Grenf II. 384 (mid. 1.8.6.) καλῶς οὖ]ν ποιήσις μὴ ἀμελήσ[α]ς α[. . ἀγο]ράσαι. .. , P Oxy I. 3815 (a.p. 49--50) (= Selections, p. 53) τοῦ δὲ Σύρου μὴ βουλομένου ἐνμεῖναι τοῖς κεκριμένοις, “45 Syrus does not wish to abide by what has been decided,” 2d. II. 2755 (A.D. 66) (= Selections, p. 58) ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ μὴ ἰδότος γράμματα, “1 wrote for him seeing that he was unlettered,” BGU I. 22° (a.p. 114) (= Selections, p. 74) TappovOios . . . τὸ παρὸν μὴ ἔχουσα κύριον, ‘ Tarmuthis at present without a guardian,’ and P Grenf II. 779 (iii/iv A.D.) (= Sedections, p. 120) θαυμάζω πάνυ [ὅτι] ἀλόγως ἀπέστητε μὴ ἄραντες [τὸ σ]ῶμα τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ ὑμῶν, “1 wonder exceedingly that you went off so unreasonably, without taking the body of your brother”; cf. P Tor 1. 1¥8-4 (νον 116) εἰ δὲ kal τις θείηι τὸ μὴ ὄν (cf. 1 Cor 1°8)—acc. and inf. follow, P Ryl II. 144°? (Α.Ὁ. 38) ἐπαγαγεῖν αἰτίας τοῦ μὴ ὄντος, ‘‘…
Read the full entry →μή (mē) — not.
μή,
Elean μά [ᾱ] [Refs 6th c.BC+]. (Cf. Sanskrit mā´, Armenian mi [from I.-[Refs 5th c.BC+] mē´], negative used in prohibitions):—not, the negative of the will and thought, as οὐ of fact and statement; μή rejects, οὐ denies; μή is relative, οὐ absolute; μή subjective, οὐ objective. (A few examples of μηδέ and μηδείς have been included.)
__A in INDEPENDENT sentences, used in expressions of will or wish, command, entreaty, warning,
__A.1 with present imperative, 2 person, μή μ᾽ ἐρέθιζε [Refs 8th c.BC+]: rarely with aorist imperative, μὴ.. ἔνθεο τιμῇ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; in Attic dialect, μὴ ψεῦσον, ὦ Ζεῦ, τῆς.. ἐλπίδος [Refs 8th c.BC+]perfect imperative [Refs 8th c.BC+] person when perfect = present, μὴ κεκράγετε [Refs 5th c.BC+]
μή
me
a primary particle of qualified negation (whereas 3756 expresses an
absolute denial); (adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an
interrogative implying a negative answer (whereas 3756 expects an
affirmative one)) whether:--any but (that), X forbear, + God forbid, +
lack, lest, neither, never, no (X wise in), none, nor, (can-)not,
nothing, that not, un(-taken), without. Often used in compounds in
substantially the same relations. See also 3362, 3363, 3364, 3372,
3373, 3375, 3378.
see GREEK for 3756
see GREEK for 3362
see GREEK for 3363
see GREEK for 3364
see GREEK for 3372
see GREEK for 3373
see GREEK for 3375
see GREEK for 3378
μή
Neg.prt.
not, lest
μή mē 1x
a negative particle, can function as a conj, not, for the particulars of its usage, especially as distinguished from that of οὐ, consult a grammar; as a conj., lest, that not, Mt. 5:29, 30; 18:10; 24:6; Mk. 13:36; μή, or μήτι, or μήποτε, when prefixed to an interrogative clause, it expresses an intimation either of the reality of the matters respecting which the question is asked, Mt. 12:23; or the contrary, Jn. 4:12
Particle-N — Particle · negativeparticle — a small word colouring the clause; it does not decline.
PRT-N PaRTicle, disjunctive particle Negative
1,085 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 23 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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2 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →
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The definite article — the commonest word in the Greek New Testament at 19,867 occurrences. Greek uses it more freely than English does and can drop it deliberately, so its presence and its absence both carry weight for a translator; but no single occurrence carries a message of its own. Here it simply gathers “the things” into one definite bundle.
ὁ, ἡ, τό,
the prepositive article (ἄρθρον προτακτικόν), originally a demonstr. pron. (so usually in Hom.), in general corresponding to the Eng. definite article.
As demonstr. pron.
As freq. in Hom., absol., he (she, it), his (etc.): Ac 17:28 (quoted from the poet Aratus).
ὁ 435 ὁ tives of quantity, ὅλος, πᾶς, πολύς, see each in its own place. d. What has been said concerning adjectives holds true also of all other limitations added to substantives, as ἡ κατ᾽ ἐκλογὴν πρόθεσις, Ro. ix. 11; ἡ παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ διαθήκη, Ro. xi. 27; 6 λόγος 6 τοῦ σταυροῦ, 1 Co. i. 18; ἡ εἰς Χριστὸν πίστις, Col. ii. 5; on the other hand, ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν ἡ πρὸς τὸν θεόν, 1 Th. i. 8; τῆς διακονίας τῆς εἰς τοὺς ἁγίους, 2 Co. viii. 4; see many other exx. of each usage in W. 131 (124) sqq.; [B. 91 (80) sqq.]. e. The noun has the article before it when a demonstrative pronoun (υὗτος, ἐκεῖνος) belonging to it either precedes or follows [W. § 18, 4; B. § 127, 29-31]; as, ὁ ἄνθρωπος οὗτος, Jn. ix. 24 [οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρ. 1, Tr mrg. WH); Acts vi. 13; xxii. 26; ὁ λαὸς οὗτος, Mt. xv. 8; 6 vids σου οὗτος, Lk. xv. 30; plur. Lk. xxiv. 17, and numberless other exx.; οὗτος 6 ἄνθρωπος, Lk. xiv. 30; οὗτος ὁ…
Read the full entry →ὃ, ἡ τό. (1) Apart from connexion with μέν or δέ (see below) the demonstrative use of the art. in the NT is confined to a poetical quotation Ac 1778, but it is not uncommon in the papyri, e.g. P Par 45® (B.C. 153) (= Witkowski®, p. 85) τὰ (for ἃ) πράσεις (Δ πράσσεις), P Oxy VIII. 1160! (iii/iv A.D.) Ta (for ἃ) σεσύλληχα (for συνείληχα) δὲ κέρμα {ταν τηρῶ αὐτὰ εἰς τὴν δίκην, “1 am keeping for the trial the money that I have collected” (Ed.). For the distributive Opéev.. - 6 8€, as in 1 Cor7’, cf. P Lond 535 (B.c. 161) (=I. p. 19, U.P.Z. i. p. 239) kal τὰ μὲν ἡμῶν ἐληφότων εἰς τὴν γινομένην ἡμῖν συντάξειν, τὰ δ᾽ ἔτι διὰ τὴν τῶν ὑποτεταγμένων {(.. ... > παρελκομένων. (2) The use of the art. as a relative, of which there is no trace in the NT, may again be illustrated by the following papyrus citations from ¢c. A.D. 346—P Lond 414® (= II. Ῥ. 292) γεινῴσκιν oe θέλω περὶ τοῦ βρεουίου…
Read the full entry →ὁ (ho) — the/this/who.
ὁ,
ἡ, τό, is, when thus written,
__A demonstrative Pronoun.
__B in Attic dialect, definite or prepositive Article.
__C in Epic dialect, the so-called postpositive Article, = relative Pronoun, ὅς, ἥ, ὅ.—The nominative masculine and feminine singular and plural, ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ, have no accent in codices and most printed books, except when used as the relative; but ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ differ only in writing from ὃ, ἣ, οἳ, α; the nominative forms of the article are said by Hdn.Gr.1.474 to be oxytone, and by [Refs 2nd c.AD+] in Aeolic dialect accusative to [Refs 8th c.BC+] genitive and dative dual τοῖιν [Refs 8th c.BC+]— In Doric dialect and all other dialects except Attic dialect and Ionic dialect the feminine forms preserve the old ᾱ instead of changing it to η, hence Doric dialect etc. ἁ, τάν, τᾶ; the genitive plural τάων contracts in many dialects to τᾶ; the genitive…
ὁ ἡ τό
ho
he hay, and the neuter
to to
in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be
supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this, that, one,
he, she, it, etc.
ὁ, ἡ, τό
Article
the
ὁ ho 19x
the prepositive article, answering, to a considerable extent, to the English definite article; but, for the principle and facts of its usage, consult a grammar; ὁ μὲν ... ὁ δέ, the one ... the other, Phil. 1:16, 17; Heb. 7:5, 6, 20, 21, 23, 24; pl. some ... others, Mt. 13:23; 22:5, 6; ὁ δέ, but he, Mt. 4:4; 12:48; οἱ δέ, but others, Mt. 28:17; used, in a poetic quotation, for a personal pronoun, Acts 17:28
ὁ the, that
ὁ, ἡ, τό, is
demonstr. Pronoun.
the definite Article.
in epic, the relative Pronoun, when it is written with the accent ὅ, ἥ, τό ῀ ὅς, ἥ, ὅ. Besides the common forms, note epic gen. sg. τοῖο for τοῦ; pl. nom. τοί, ταί; gen. fem. τάων [α^], dat. τοῖσι, τῇς and τῇσι; dual gen, and dat. τοῖιν:— in Trag. we find τοὶ μέν . . , τοὶ δέ . . , for οἱ μέν . . , οἱ δέ . . ; dat. pl. also τοῖσι, ταῖσι: the dual has commonly but one gender, τώ for τά, τοῖν for ταῖν.
DEMONSTR. PRONOUN:
joined with a Subst., not as the Art., but like Lat. ille, ὁ Τυδείδης Tydeus's famous son, Il.; Νέστωρ ὁ γέρων Nestor— that aged man, id. Il.; τιμῆς τῆς Πριάμου for honour, namely that of Priam, id. Il.
Art-DSF — Article · dative · singular · femininedative — to, for, with — the one it is done to or by.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
T-DSF Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Dative Number: Singular Gender: Feminine
In the sense of "against" which survives only in dialectal English (compare Wright, Dialect Dict., I, 470, for examples) is the King James Version rendering of the dative emauto of 1Co 4:4 (the American Standard Revised Version renders this "against"). In classical Greek the same idiom sunoida with dative = "be conscious" or "be cognizant of" a thing.
By
In the expression “by myself” (A.V., 1 Cor. 4:4), means, as rendered in the Revised Version, “against myself.”
20,685 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 83 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.
ἡ τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.
Χαίρετε, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἐν εἰρήνῃ.
r βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν
ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει Παθύρεως χαλκοῦ Γ. ἐπρίατο Ὧρος Νεχούτου.
βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν
The definite article — the commonest word in the Greek New Testament at 19,867 occurrences. Greek uses it more freely than English does and can drop it deliberately, so its presence and its absence both carry weight for a translator; but no single occurrence carries a message of its own. Here it simply gathers “the things” into one definite bundle.
ὁ, ἡ, τό,
the prepositive article (ἄρθρον προτακτικόν), originally a demonstr. pron. (so usually in Hom.), in general corresponding to the Eng. definite article.
As demonstr. pron.
As freq. in Hom., absol., he (she, it), his (etc.): Ac 17:28 (quoted from the poet Aratus).
ὁ 435 ὁ tives of quantity, ὅλος, πᾶς, πολύς, see each in its own place. d. What has been said concerning adjectives holds true also of all other limitations added to substantives, as ἡ κατ᾽ ἐκλογὴν πρόθεσις, Ro. ix. 11; ἡ παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ διαθήκη, Ro. xi. 27; 6 λόγος 6 τοῦ σταυροῦ, 1 Co. i. 18; ἡ εἰς Χριστὸν πίστις, Col. ii. 5; on the other hand, ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν ἡ πρὸς τὸν θεόν, 1 Th. i. 8; τῆς διακονίας τῆς εἰς τοὺς ἁγίους, 2 Co. viii. 4; see many other exx. of each usage in W. 131 (124) sqq.; [B. 91 (80) sqq.]. e. The noun has the article before it when a demonstrative pronoun (υὗτος, ἐκεῖνος) belonging to it either precedes or follows [W. § 18, 4; B. § 127, 29-31]; as, ὁ ἄνθρωπος οὗτος, Jn. ix. 24 [οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρ. 1, Tr mrg. WH); Acts vi. 13; xxii. 26; ὁ λαὸς οὗτος, Mt. xv. 8; 6 vids σου οὗτος, Lk. xv. 30; plur. Lk. xxiv. 17, and numberless other exx.; οὗτος 6 ἄνθρωπος, Lk. xiv. 30; οὗτος ὁ…
Read the full entry →ὃ, ἡ τό. (1) Apart from connexion with μέν or δέ (see below) the demonstrative use of the art. in the NT is confined to a poetical quotation Ac 1778, but it is not uncommon in the papyri, e.g. P Par 45® (B.C. 153) (= Witkowski®, p. 85) τὰ (for ἃ) πράσεις (Δ πράσσεις), P Oxy VIII. 1160! (iii/iv A.D.) Ta (for ἃ) σεσύλληχα (for συνείληχα) δὲ κέρμα {ταν τηρῶ αὐτὰ εἰς τὴν δίκην, “1 am keeping for the trial the money that I have collected” (Ed.). For the distributive Opéev.. - 6 8€, as in 1 Cor7’, cf. P Lond 535 (B.c. 161) (=I. p. 19, U.P.Z. i. p. 239) kal τὰ μὲν ἡμῶν ἐληφότων εἰς τὴν γινομένην ἡμῖν συντάξειν, τὰ δ᾽ ἔτι διὰ τὴν τῶν ὑποτεταγμένων {(.. ... > παρελκομένων. (2) The use of the art. as a relative, of which there is no trace in the NT, may again be illustrated by the following papyrus citations from ¢c. A.D. 346—P Lond 414® (= II. Ῥ. 292) γεινῴσκιν oe θέλω περὶ τοῦ βρεουίου…
Read the full entry →ὁ (ho) — the/this/who.
ὁ,
ἡ, τό, is, when thus written,
__A demonstrative Pronoun.
__B in Attic dialect, definite or prepositive Article.
__C in Epic dialect, the so-called postpositive Article, = relative Pronoun, ὅς, ἥ, ὅ.—The nominative masculine and feminine singular and plural, ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ, have no accent in codices and most printed books, except when used as the relative; but ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ differ only in writing from ὃ, ἣ, οἳ, α; the nominative forms of the article are said by Hdn.Gr.1.474 to be oxytone, and by [Refs 2nd c.AD+] in Aeolic dialect accusative to [Refs 8th c.BC+] genitive and dative dual τοῖιν [Refs 8th c.BC+]— In Doric dialect and all other dialects except Attic dialect and Ionic dialect the feminine forms preserve the old ᾱ instead of changing it to η, hence Doric dialect etc. ἁ, τάν, τᾶ; the genitive plural τάων contracts in many dialects to τᾶ; the genitive…
ὁ ἡ τό
ho
he hay, and the neuter
to to
in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be
supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this, that, one,
he, she, it, etc.
ὁ, ἡ, τό
Article
the
ὁ ho 19x
the prepositive article, answering, to a considerable extent, to the English definite article; but, for the principle and facts of its usage, consult a grammar; ὁ μὲν ... ὁ δέ, the one ... the other, Phil. 1:16, 17; Heb. 7:5, 6, 20, 21, 23, 24; pl. some ... others, Mt. 13:23; 22:5, 6; ὁ δέ, but he, Mt. 4:4; 12:48; οἱ δέ, but others, Mt. 28:17; used, in a poetic quotation, for a personal pronoun, Acts 17:28
ὁ the, that
ὁ, ἡ, τό, is
demonstr. Pronoun.
the definite Article.
in epic, the relative Pronoun, when it is written with the accent ὅ, ἥ, τό ῀ ὅς, ἥ, ὅ. Besides the common forms, note epic gen. sg. τοῖο for τοῦ; pl. nom. τοί, ταί; gen. fem. τάων [α^], dat. τοῖσι, τῇς and τῇσι; dual gen, and dat. τοῖιν:— in Trag. we find τοὶ μέν . . , τοὶ δέ . . , for οἱ μέν . . , οἱ δέ . . ; dat. pl. also τοῖσι, ταῖσι: the dual has commonly but one gender, τώ for τά, τοῖν for ταῖν.
DEMONSTR. PRONOUN:
joined with a Subst., not as the Art., but like Lat. ille, ὁ Τυδείδης Tydeus's famous son, Il.; Νέστωρ ὁ γέρων Nestor— that aged man, id. Il.; τιμῆς τῆς Πριάμου for honour, namely that of Priam, id. Il.
Art-GPM — Article · genitive · plural · masculinegenitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
T-GPM Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Genitive Number: Plural Gender: Masculine
ov:
(1) In Anglo-Saxon, had the meaning "from," "away from" (as the strengthened form "off" has still), and was not used for genitive or possessive relations, these being expressed by special case-forms. In the Norman period, however, "of" was taken to represent the French de (a use well developed by the time of Chaucer), and in the Elizabethan period both senses of "of" were in common use. But after about 1600 the later force of the word became predominant, and in the earlier sense (which is now practically obsolete) it was replaced by other prepositions. In consequence the King James Version (and in some cases the Revised Version (British and American)) contains many uses of "of" that are no longer familiar--most of them, to be sure, causing no difficulty, but there still being a few responsible for real obscurities.
OF, preposition ov. [Gr.]
1. From or out of; proceeding from, as the cause, source, means, author or agent bestowing.
I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you. 1 Corinthians 11:1.
For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts. Joshua 11:1.
It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed.
Lamentations 3:1.
The whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Proverbs 16:1.
Go, inquire of the Lord for me. 2 Chronicles 34:2.
That holy thing that shall be born of thee. Luke 1:1.
Hence of is the sign of the genitive case, the case that denotes production; as the son of man, the son proceeding from man, produced from man. This is the primary sense, although we now say, produced by man. 'Part of these were slain; ' that is, a number separate, for part denotes a division; the sense then is, a number from or out of the whole were slain. So also, 'some of these were slain; ' that is…
20,685 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 83 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.
ἡ τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.
Χαίρετε, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἐν εἰρήνῃ.
r βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν
ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει Παθύρεως χαλκοῦ Γ. ἐπρίατο Ὧρος Νεχούτου.
βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν
The Greek word ἄθεσμος (i.e., *athesmos*) means 'lawless' and is derived from the root for 'law' (θεσμός, *thesmos*). It describes those who violate laws or moral codes, particularly in the context of the New Testament, where it appears in 2 Peter 2:7 and 3:17. Synonyms include ἀθέμιτος and ἄνομος, indicating a range of meanings related to wickedness and criminal behavior.
**† ἄθεσμος, -ον
(< θεσμός, law, custom),
[in LXX: III Mac 5:12 6:26*;]
lawless, esp. of those who violate the law of nature and conscience (cf. MM, VGT, s.v.): II Pe 2:7 3:17.†
SYN.: ἀθέμιτος, ἄνομος, κακός, πονηρός, φαῦλος (v. Tr., Syn., §lxxiv; DCG, ii, 821b).
ἄ-θεσμος, -ov, (θεσμός, lawless, [A. V. wicked]; of one who breaks through the restraints of law and gratifies [Sept., Diod., Philo, his lusts: 2 Pet. ii. 7; iii. 17. Joseph., Plut.]
ἄθεσμος. An instance of this word, which in the NT is confined to 2 Peter (27, 317), may be quoted from the late P Oxy I. 1297 (vi/A.D.) where a man breaks off the engagement of his daughter to a certain Phoebammon, because it had come to his ears that the latter was giving himself over to ‘‘ lawless” deeds—axykoévar σε παρεμβάλλοντα ἑαυτὸν ἐν τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἀθέσμοις πράγμασιν.
ἄθεσμος (athesmos) — lawless.
ἄθεσμος, ον,
={ἀθέσμιος}, [LXX+1st c.AD+]. adverb -μως[LXX+5th c.AD+]
ἄθεσμος
athesmos
from 1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of 5087 (in the sense
of enacting); lawless, i.e. (by implication) criminal:--wicked.
see GREEK for 1
see GREEK for 5087
ἄθεσμος, ον
Adj
lawless
ἄθεσμος athesmos 2x
lawless, unrestrained, licentious, 2 Pet. 2:7; 3:17*
ἄθεσμος = ἀθέσμιος, Plut.
Adj-GPM — Adjective · genitive · plural · masculinegenitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
A-GPM Part of Speech: Adjective Case: Genitive Number: Plural Gender: Masculine
lo'-les (anomos): While occurring but once in the King James Version (1Ti 1:9), is translated in various ways, e.g. "without law" (1Co 9:21); "unlawful" (2Pe 2:8 the King James Version); "lawless" (1Ti 1:9); "transgressor" (Mr 15:28; Lu 22:37); "wicked" (Ac 2:23 the King James Version; 2Th 2:8 the King James Version). When Paul claims to be "without law," he has reference to those things in the ceremonial law which might well be passed over, and not to the moral…
2 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 1 different way. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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ἀλλὰ γλωσσαλγία καὶ ἀχάλινον στόμα ὅταν ἐκνόμοις ἀφροσύναις ὑπηρετῶσι, πάντως τι καινουργεῖται τῶν ἀθέσμων.
δικαίων ὀρεγομένους καὶ δυναμένους ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ … σαι τοῖς ταύτην ἐνοικοῦσιν τῶν συμβεβηκότων αὐτοῖς ἀθέσμων … ης ἐκ προγόνων δεσπόται τὴν βασιλικὴν βουλὴν τοῦτο ὅπερ ἐστὶ τὸ διοικῆσαι
The Greek word πλάνη (*planē*) means a wandering or straying, often used metaphorically to denote error, particularly in moral or religious contexts. It appears in the New Testament in verses such as Matthew 27:64 and Romans 1:27, where it conveys notions of deceit and wrong opinion. The lexicons agree on its general meaning, but some entries emphasize its use in relation to deceit more than others.
πλάνη, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX: Pr 14:8 (מִרְמָה), Wi 1:12, al;]
a wandering. Metaph., a going astray, an error (in NT always with respect to morals or religion): Mt 27:64, Ro 1:27, Eph 4:14, I Th 2:3, II Th 2:11, Ja 5:20, II Pe 2:18 3:17, I Jo 4:6, Ju 11.†
πλάνη, -ns, 7, α wandering, a straying about, whereby one, led astray from the right way, roams hither and thither (Aeschyl., [Hdt.], Eur., Plat., Dem.,al.). In the N. T. metaph. mental straying, i.e. error, wrong opinion relative to morals or religion: Eph. iv. 14; 1 Th. ii. 3; 2 Th. ii. 11; 2 Pet. ii. 18; iii. 17; 1 Jn. iv. 6; Jude 11 (on which [cf. W. 189 (177) and] see ἐκχέω, b. fin.) ; er ror which shows itself in action, a wrong mode of acting: Ro. i. 27; πλάνη ὁδοῦ τινος, [R. V. error of one’s way i. 6.7 the wrong manner of life which one follows, Jas. v. 20 (πλάνη ζωῆς, Sap. i. 12); as sometimes the Lat. error, iq. that which leads into error, deceit, fraud: Mt. XXVii. 64.* [πλάνης, -nTos, 6, see πλανήτης. |
πλάνη has apparently the act. sense of ‘‘ deceit’? in BGU IV. 12088 (B.c. 27-6) δι᾿ οὗ [μοι] ἱστορεῖς τὴν [Καλατύ]τεως πλ[άν7γην, ‘‘by means of which (sc. a writing-tablet) you are acquainting me with the deceit of Kalatytis.”” Cf. Aazde/ 351° πάσα[ι]σ [1] mwAavy[s τ]έχν[αι]ς, where the editor understands the word as denoting the craft and stratagem which hunters use against wild beasts. See further s.v. πλανάω. In the NT πλάνη is generally, if not always, used in the pass. sense of ‘‘error”’: cf. Armitage Robinson ad Eph 4}4.
πλάνη (planē) — error.
πλᾰν-η, ἡ,
wandering, roaming, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. discursive treatment, ἡ διὰ παντὸς διέξοδος καὶ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. metaphorically, going astray, βίοτος ἀνθρώπων π. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ περὶ τὰ χρώματα π. τῆς ὄψεως the illusion, [Refs]; πολλὴν ἔχει.. πλάνην irregularity, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; πολλὰς ἀπορίας ἔχει καὶ π. [Refs]; ἡ κατὰ τὰς αἰσθήσεις π. [Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.2. deceit, imposture, [LXX+NT]
πλάνη
plane
feminine of 4108 (as abstractly); objectively, fraudulence;
subjectively, a straying from orthodoxy or piety:--deceit, to deceive,
delusion, error.
see GREEK for 4108
πλάνη, ης, ἡ
n.f.
a wandering, error
πλάνη planē 10x
a wandering; deceit, deception, delusion, imposture, fraud, Mt. 27:64; 1 Thess. 2:3; seduction, deceiving, Eph. 4:14; 2 Thess. 2:11; 1 Jn. 4:6; error, false opinion, 2 Pet. 3:17; wandering from the path of truth and virtue, perverseness, wickedness, sin, Rom. 1:27; Jas. 5:20; 2 Pet. 2:18; Jude 11*
πλάνη πλά^νη, ἡ, like ἄλη, a wandering, roaming, Hdt., Aesch.
a digression, Plat.
metaph. a going astray, error, id. Plat., etc.
Noun-DSF — Noun · dative · singular · femininedative — to, for, with — the one it is done to or by.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
N-DSF Part of Speech: Noun Case: Dative Number: Singular Gender: Feminine
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ὁ ψευδῶν εἰκαστικός, ὁ πλάνης, ὁ οἰητικός, ὁ παρανοῶν, ὁ μωραίνων, ὁ εὑρισκόμενος ἄνους ἐν ἐκστάσει καὶ μελαγχολίᾳ καὶ μακρῷ γήρᾳ;
Μηνύειν δὲ καὶ τὰς ὁδοὺς τοῖς ἀγνοοῦσι, καὶ μὴ γέλωτα θηρωμένους αὑτοῖς ἐμποδίζειν πλάνῃ τὴν ἑτέρου χρείαν.
ἀκριβεύεσθαι οὖν ὀφείλομεν, ἀδελφοί, περὶ τῆς σωτηρίας ἡμῶν, ἵνα μὴ ὁ πονηρὸς παρείσδυσιν πλάνης ποιήσας ἐν ἡμῖν ἐκσφενδονήσῃ ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τῆς ζωῆς ἡμῶν.
λων Σαλώμη … … ὑμῶν Μαριάμη ἡ εἰποῦσα … οὐετρανός. εἰ δέ τις πλανη … … … … ς ἀπόκριμα
ἑωρῶμεν αὐτὸν χρόνου προκόπτοντος οὔτε τοὺς καμήλους συνωνούμενον οὔτε τὸ ἀργύριον ἡμῖν ἀποδιδόντος ἀλλὰ πλάνῃ πολλῇ ἡμᾶς περιάγοντος, ἀντικατέστημεν πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐκεῖσε τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν ἐπιτρόπου Κ
ὡς τὴν ἄνωθεν καὶ ἐκ φύσεως προσκυρωθεῖσαν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἐλευθερίαν οὐδὲ χρόνος πολὺς οὐδὲ πλάνη παρακολουθήσασα μειῶσαι δυνήσεται. Ἰακὼβ γὰρ, ἐκ τῆς Ἀνταιοπολιτῶν ὁρμώμενος, καὶ διάξας μετὰ τοῦ ἐν
The Greek word συναπάγω (i.e., *sunapago*) is built from the prefix συν- (together) and the root ἀγώ (to lead). It means to lead away with or together, and can also imply accommodating oneself to others. In the New Testament, it appears in Galatians 2:13 and 2 Peter 3:17, where it conveys a sense of being carried away or yielding to influences.
συν-απ-άγω
[in LXX: Ex 14:6 (לקח) * ;]
to lead away with or together (Ex, l.c.). Pass., metaph. (as συμπεριφέρομαι, v. LS, s.v.), to be carried away with: c. dat., Ga 2:13, II Pe 3:17; of accommodating oneself to (EV, condescend to) things or persons (on the meaning, v. ICC, in l.; Field, Notes, 163), Ro 12:16.†
συν-απ-άγω: Pass., pres. ptep. συναπαγόμενος ; 1 aor. συναπήχθην; to lead away with or together: ἵππον, Xen. Cyr. 8,3, 23; τριήρεις, Hell. 5,1, 23; τὸν λαὸν μεθ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ, Sept. Ex. xiv. 6; pass. metaph. to be carried away with: with dat. of the thing, i. e. by a thing, so as to experience with others the force of that which carries away (Zosim. hist. 5, 6, 9 αὐτὴ ἡ Σπάρτη συναπήγετο τῇ κοινῇ τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἁλώσει), to follow the impulse of a thing to what harmonizes with it, Gal. ii. 13; 2 Pet. iii. 17; to suffer one’s self to be carried away together with (something that carries away), τοῖς ταπεινοῖς (opp. to τὰ ὑψηλὰ φρονεῖν), i. 6. to yield or submit one’s self to lowly things, conditions, employments, — not to evade their power, Ro. xii.…
Read the full entry →συναπάγω, “‘lead away with,” is used metaph. in the pass. ‘fam carried away with” as with a flood: cf. Gal 215, 2 Pet 317. On the AV, RV rendering ‘‘condescend to” in Rom 1215 see Field Motes, p. 163, where the corresponding use of ’ συναποθνῃσκω συμπεριφέρομαι, “comply with,” ‘‘ accommodate oneself to,”’ as in Sir 25! γυνὴ Kal ἀνὴρ ἑαυτοῖς συμπεριφερόμενοι, is cited.
συναπάγω (sunapagō) — to lead away with.
συναπάγω [ᾰγ],
lead away with or together, τινι [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. carry off with, οἱ γλυκεῖς οἶνοι.. οὐ συναπάγουσιν ἑαυτοῖς τοὺς χολώδεις χυμούς [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II. passive, τοὺς συναπαχθέντας ἡμῖν γεωργούς arrested with us, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
II.2. metaphorically, to be led away likewise, [NT]
II.3. ={συμπεριφέρομαι} (συμπεριφέρω [NT]
συναπάγω
sunapago
from 4862 and 520; to take off together, i.e. transport with (seduce,
passively, yield):--carry (lead) away with, condescend.
see GREEK for 4862
see GREEK for 520
συναπάγω
v.
I lead away with, condescend to
συναπάγω synapagō 3x
to lead or carry away with; to seduce; pass. to be led away
συναπάγω fut. ξω to lead away with another, c. dat., Xen.; absol., id. Xen.
Pass. to be led away likewise, NTest.
to accommodate oneself to a thing, c. dat., id. NTest.
Verb-APP-NPM — Verb · aorist · passive · participle · nominative · plural · masculinenominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
V-APP-NPM Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Aorist Voice: Passive Mood: Participle Case: Nominative Number: Plural Gender: Masculine
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The Greek word ἐκπίπτω (ekpipto) combines the prefix ἐκ (out of) with πίπτω (to fall). It generally means to fall out of, fall from, or fall off, and can also imply losing something or becoming ineffective. In the New Testament, it appears in contexts like falling away from grace (Galatians 5:4) and being cast ashore (Acts 27:17).
ἐκ-πίπτω
[in LXX: Is 40:8 28:1, 4 (הֶבֶל), Jb 14:2 (מָלַל, v. RV. mg), Jb 15:30 (סוּר), Jb 15:33 (שָׁלַךְ hi.), etc. ;]
to fall out of, fall from, fall off: seq. ἐκ τ. χειρῶν, Ac 12:7; absol., Ac 27:32; of the withering of flowers (as LXX, ll c.), Ja 1:11, I Pe 1:24 (LXX); of navigators falling off from a straight course, Ac 27:17, 26, 29. Metaph., c. gen. rei: Ga 5:4, Read the full entry →
ἐκ-πίπτω ; pf. ἐκπέπτωκα ; 2 aor. ἐξέπεσον ; 1 aor. ἐξέmeoa (Acts xii. 7 LT Tr WH; Gal. ν. 4; on this aor. see [πίπτω and] ἀπέρχομαι) ; [fr. Hom. down]; to fall out of, to fall down from; 1. prop.: ai ἁλύσεις ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν (see ἐκ. I. 3 [ef. W. 427 (398) and De verb. comp. ete. Pt. ii. p. 11]), Acts xii. 7 (ἐκ τῆς θήκης, Is. vi. 13; ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, Is. xiv. 12); absol.: Mk. xiii. 25 RG; Acts xxvii. 32; Jas. i. 11; 1 Pet. i. 24; of navigators, ἐκπ. eis (i. 6. from a straight course) to fall off i. 6. be driven into (cf. Stallbaum on Plato’s Phileb. p. 106 sq. ; al. supply ‘from deep water,’ and render ἐκπ. to be cast away], Acts xxvii. 17, 25, 29, in this last vs. LT Tr WH have adopted ἐκπ. κατά, (often in Grk. writ., as eis γῆν, Eur. Hel. 409; εἰς τὸν λιμένα, Thue. 2, 92). 2. metaph. a. τινός [W. 427 (398), and De verb. comp. ete. τι. 5.7, to fall from a thing, to lose it: τῆς χάριτος…
Read the full entry →ἐκπίπτω. For the literal meaning ‘‘ fall out of,’’ ‘‘leave,”’ we can cite P Rein 112° (B.c. 111) διὰ τὸ τοῦτον ἐκπεπτωκέναι Kal μὴ εὑρίσκεσθαι, “attendu que mon mari a quitté le pays et a disparu”’ (Ed.). The idea of ending in failure or nothingness, as in Jas 11, is seen in Vett. Val. p. 7027 καθαιρεῖται -
ἐκπίπτω (ekpiptō) — to fall out.
ἐκπίπτω,
future -πεσοῦμαι: aorist ἐξέπεσον: perfect ἐκπέπτωκα:— fall out of, δίφρου [Refs 8th c.BC+]; θαλερὸν δέ οἱ ἔκπεσε δάκρυ fell from his eyes, [Refs]fall out, [Refs]; fall down, of trees, [Refs 4th c.BC+]meteors, [Refs 8th c.BC+]passive of ἐκβάλλω:
1. of seafaring men, to be cast ashore, ἐκ δ᾽ ἔπεσον θυμηγερέων [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ναυαγὸν ἐ.[Refs 5th c.BC+]; of things, suffer shipwreck, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of fish, to be cast up, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
2. fall from a thing, i.e. be deprived of it, ἐκ πολλῶν καὶ εὐδαιμόνων ἐς πτωχηΐην [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τυραννίδος, ἀρχῆς, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
ἐκπίπτω
ekpipto
from 1537 and 4098; to drop away; specially, be driven out of one's
course; figuratively, to lose, become inefficient:--be cast, fail,
fall (away, off), take none effect.
see GREEK for 1537
see GREEK for 4098
ἐκπίπτω
v.
I fall out, fall off, fall away, fade away, wither away
ἐκπίπτω ekpiptō 10x
to fall off or from, Acts 12:7; 27:32; met. to fall from, forfeit, lose, Gal. 5:4; 2 Pet. 3:17; to be cast ashore, Acts 27:17, 26, 29; to fall to the ground, be fruitless, ineffectual, Rom. 9:6; to cease, come to an end, Jas. 1:11; 1 Pet. 1:24*
ἐκπίπτω fut. -πεσοῦμαι aor2 ἐξέπεσον perf. -πέπτωκα to fall out of a chariot, c. gen., Hom., etc.; c. dat. pers., τόξον δέ οἱ ἔκπεσε χειρός Il.
of seafaring men, to be thrown ashore, Lat. ejici, Od., Hdt., etc.: of things, to suffer shipwreck, Xen.
to fall from a thing, i. e. be deprived of it, Lat. excidere, τινός or ἔκ τινος Aesch., etc.
to be driven out, of persons banished, Hdt., etc.
to go out or forth, sally out, id. Hdt., Xen.
to come out, of votes, id. Xen.
to escape, Thuc.
of oracles, to issue from the sanctuary, be imparted, Luc.
to depart from, digress, Xen., Aeschin.
to fall off, come to naught, NTest.
of actors, to be hissed off the stage, Lat. explodi, Dem.
Verb-2AAS-2P — Verb · second aorist · active · subjunctive · second person · pluralsecond aorist active subjunctive — a completed action, viewed as a whole.
V-2AAS-2P Part of Speech: Verb Tense: second Aorist Voice: Active Mood: Subjunctive Person: second Number: Plural
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οὐδὲ γὰρ Μωυσῇ τῷ πανσόφῳ κατένευσεν ὁ θεὸς τοῦτό γε, καίτοι γε μυρίας ποιησαμένῳ δεήσεις, ἀλλὰ χρησμὸς ἐξέπεσεν αὐτῷ, ὅτι „τὰ μὲν ὀπίσω θεάσῃ, τὸ δὲ πρόσωπον οὐκ ὄψει“ (Exod.
προσιόντος δὲ ἀσπάσασθαι τοῦ Ἀμασᾶ φιλοτεχνεῖ τὴν μάχαιραν αὐτομάτως ἐκ τῆς θήκης ἐκπεσεῖν, βαστάσας δʼ αὐτὴν ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς καὶ τῇ ἑτέρᾳ τὸν Ἀμασᾶν ἐγγὺς γενόμενον ὡς καταφιλήσων τοῦ γενείου λαβόμενος οὐ προϊδόμενον εἰς τὴν γαστέρα πλήξας ἀπέκτεινεν,…
περὶ τὸν τούτων ποτισμὸν χάριν τοῦ γεγονότος περὶ τὴν κώμην ἐκρήγματος πρὸς τὸ μὴ ἐκπεσεῖν τοῦ δέοντος καιροῦ, Ζήνωνος δέ τινος κακοσχολοῦντος παρεπιδημοῦντος δʼ ἐν τῆι αὐτῆι μοι Κροκοδίλων
μετηλλαχέναι τὸν βίον ἀντίγραφον ὑπόκειται. πε … γεωργίαν τὸν δηλούμενον κλῆρον στόχασαι τοῦ μὴ ἐκπεσεῖν
πρὸς αὐτὸν περὶ τούτων ὕβριν μοι ἐπετέλεσεν οὐ τὴν τυχοῦσαν καὶ ἐν τῇ συμπλοκῇ ἐξέπεσεν παρʼ ἐμοῦ εἰς τὸ ἔδαφος ὃ εἶχον ἐπὶ τῶι ὤμῳ μου παιδίον ὥστε ἐκ
The definite article — the commonest word in the Greek New Testament at 19,867 occurrences. Greek uses it more freely than English does and can drop it deliberately, so its presence and its absence both carry weight for a translator; but no single occurrence carries a message of its own. Here it simply gathers “the things” into one definite bundle.
ὁ, ἡ, τό,
the prepositive article (ἄρθρον προτακτικόν), originally a demonstr. pron. (so usually in Hom.), in general corresponding to the Eng. definite article.
As demonstr. pron.
As freq. in Hom., absol., he (she, it), his (etc.): Ac 17:28 (quoted from the poet Aratus).
ὁ 435 ὁ tives of quantity, ὅλος, πᾶς, πολύς, see each in its own place. d. What has been said concerning adjectives holds true also of all other limitations added to substantives, as ἡ κατ᾽ ἐκλογὴν πρόθεσις, Ro. ix. 11; ἡ παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ διαθήκη, Ro. xi. 27; 6 λόγος 6 τοῦ σταυροῦ, 1 Co. i. 18; ἡ εἰς Χριστὸν πίστις, Col. ii. 5; on the other hand, ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν ἡ πρὸς τὸν θεόν, 1 Th. i. 8; τῆς διακονίας τῆς εἰς τοὺς ἁγίους, 2 Co. viii. 4; see many other exx. of each usage in W. 131 (124) sqq.; [B. 91 (80) sqq.]. e. The noun has the article before it when a demonstrative pronoun (υὗτος, ἐκεῖνος) belonging to it either precedes or follows [W. § 18, 4; B. § 127, 29-31]; as, ὁ ἄνθρωπος οὗτος, Jn. ix. 24 [οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρ. 1, Tr mrg. WH); Acts vi. 13; xxii. 26; ὁ λαὸς οὗτος, Mt. xv. 8; 6 vids σου οὗτος, Lk. xv. 30; plur. Lk. xxiv. 17, and numberless other exx.; οὗτος 6 ἄνθρωπος, Lk. xiv. 30; οὗτος ὁ…
Read the full entry →ὃ, ἡ τό. (1) Apart from connexion with μέν or δέ (see below) the demonstrative use of the art. in the NT is confined to a poetical quotation Ac 1778, but it is not uncommon in the papyri, e.g. P Par 45® (B.C. 153) (= Witkowski®, p. 85) τὰ (for ἃ) πράσεις (Δ πράσσεις), P Oxy VIII. 1160! (iii/iv A.D.) Ta (for ἃ) σεσύλληχα (for συνείληχα) δὲ κέρμα {ταν τηρῶ αὐτὰ εἰς τὴν δίκην, “1 am keeping for the trial the money that I have collected” (Ed.). For the distributive Opéev.. - 6 8€, as in 1 Cor7’, cf. P Lond 535 (B.c. 161) (=I. p. 19, U.P.Z. i. p. 239) kal τὰ μὲν ἡμῶν ἐληφότων εἰς τὴν γινομένην ἡμῖν συντάξειν, τὰ δ᾽ ἔτι διὰ τὴν τῶν ὑποτεταγμένων {(.. ... > παρελκομένων. (2) The use of the art. as a relative, of which there is no trace in the NT, may again be illustrated by the following papyrus citations from ¢c. A.D. 346—P Lond 414® (= II. Ῥ. 292) γεινῴσκιν oe θέλω περὶ τοῦ βρεουίου…
Read the full entry →ὁ (ho) — the/this/who.
ὁ,
ἡ, τό, is, when thus written,
__A demonstrative Pronoun.
__B in Attic dialect, definite or prepositive Article.
__C in Epic dialect, the so-called postpositive Article, = relative Pronoun, ὅς, ἥ, ὅ.—The nominative masculine and feminine singular and plural, ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ, have no accent in codices and most printed books, except when used as the relative; but ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ differ only in writing from ὃ, ἣ, οἳ, α; the nominative forms of the article are said by Hdn.Gr.1.474 to be oxytone, and by [Refs 2nd c.AD+] in Aeolic dialect accusative to [Refs 8th c.BC+] genitive and dative dual τοῖιν [Refs 8th c.BC+]— In Doric dialect and all other dialects except Attic dialect and Ionic dialect the feminine forms preserve the old ᾱ instead of changing it to η, hence Doric dialect etc. ἁ, τάν, τᾶ; the genitive plural τάων contracts in many dialects to τᾶ; the genitive…
ὁ ἡ τό
ho
he hay, and the neuter
to to
in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be
supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this, that, one,
he, she, it, etc.
ὁ, ἡ, τό
Article
the
ὁ ho 19x
the prepositive article, answering, to a considerable extent, to the English definite article; but, for the principle and facts of its usage, consult a grammar; ὁ μὲν ... ὁ δέ, the one ... the other, Phil. 1:16, 17; Heb. 7:5, 6, 20, 21, 23, 24; pl. some ... others, Mt. 13:23; 22:5, 6; ὁ δέ, but he, Mt. 4:4; 12:48; οἱ δέ, but others, Mt. 28:17; used, in a poetic quotation, for a personal pronoun, Acts 17:28
ὁ the, that
ὁ, ἡ, τό, is
demonstr. Pronoun.
the definite Article.
in epic, the relative Pronoun, when it is written with the accent ὅ, ἥ, τό ῀ ὅς, ἥ, ὅ. Besides the common forms, note epic gen. sg. τοῖο for τοῦ; pl. nom. τοί, ταί; gen. fem. τάων [α^], dat. τοῖσι, τῇς and τῇσι; dual gen, and dat. τοῖιν:— in Trag. we find τοὶ μέν . . , τοὶ δέ . . , for οἱ μέν . . , οἱ δέ . . ; dat. pl. also τοῖσι, ταῖσι: the dual has commonly but one gender, τώ for τά, τοῖν for ταῖν.
DEMONSTR. PRONOUN:
joined with a Subst., not as the Art., but like Lat. ille, ὁ Τυδείδης Tydeus's famous son, Il.; Νέστωρ ὁ γέρων Nestor— that aged man, id. Il.; τιμῆς τῆς Πριάμου for honour, namely that of Priam, id. Il.
Art-GSM — Article · genitive · singular · masculinegenitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked singular masculine.
T-GSM Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Genitive Number: Singular Gender: Masculine
THE, an adjective or definitive adjective.
1. This adjective is used as a definitive, that is, before nouns which are specific or understood; or it is used to limit their signification to a specific thing or things, or to describe them; as the laws of the twelve tables. the independent tribunals of justice in our country, are the security or private rights, and the best bulwark against arbitrary power. the sun is the source of light and heat.
This he calls the preaching of the cross.
2. the is also used rhetorically before a noun in the singular number, to denote a species by way of distinction; a single thing representing the whole. the fig tree putteth forth her green figs; the almond tree shall flourish; the grasshopper shall be a burden.
3. In poetry, the sometimes loses the final vowel before another vowel.
Th' adorning thee with so much art,
Is but a barb'rous skill.
20,685 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 83 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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40 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →
Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.
ἡ τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.
Χαίρετε, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἐν εἰρήνῃ.
r βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν
ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει Παθύρεως χαλκοῦ Γ. ἐπρίατο Ὧρος Νεχούτου.
βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν
The Greek word ἴδιος (i.dios) means 'one's own' or 'private.' It conveys a sense of personal ownership or belonging, often contrasting with what is public or shared. In the New Testament, it appears in contexts referring to personal property, family, and private matters, such as in John 1:11 and Galatians 6:5. The word can also imply distinctiveness or peculiarity, as seen in various classical texts.
ἴδιος, -α, -ον (in Attic usually -ος, -ον),
[in LXX chiefly for pers. suff., also for לָהֶם, etc.; (τὰ ἴ.) בֵּיתוֹ;]
one's own;
of that which is private and personal (in cl. opp. to κοινός, δημόσιος; cf. infr. 3);
ἴδιος, -a, -ov, (in prof. auth. [esp. Attic] also of two term.), [fr. Hom. down]; 1. pertaining to one’s self, one’s own; used a. univ. of what is one’s own as opp. to belonging to another: τὰ ἴδια πρόβατα, Jn. x. 3 sq. 12; τὰ ἱμάτια τὰ ἴδια, Mk. xv. 20 RG Tr (for which T τὰ ἴδ. in. αὐτοῦ, L WII τὰ ig. αὐτοῦ); τὸ ἴδιον (for his own use) κτῆνος, Lk. x. 34; διὰ τοῦ ἰδίου αἵματος, Heb. ix. 12; xiii. 12, (ἰδίῳ αἵματι, 4 Mace. vii. 8); τὸ ἴδιον μίσθωμα, which he had hired for himself (opp. to ἡ ξενία [q. v-], 23), Acts xxviii. 30; add, Jn. v.43; vii. 18; Acts iii. 12; xiil. 36; Ro. xi. 24; xiv. 4 sq.3 1 Co. iii. 8 (ἴδιον κόπον) ; vi. 185 vii. 4,37; ix. 7; xi. 21; Gal. vi.5; 1 Tim. ill. 4,12; v. 4; 2 Tim.i.9; iv. 3; πράσσειν τὰ ἴδια, to do one’s own business (and not intermeddle with the affairs of others), 1 Th. iv. 11; ἰδία ἐπίλυσις, an interpretation which one thinks out for himself, opp.…
Read the full entry →ἴδιος (A.D. 156) ἐγνώρισα τὴν ἰδίαν μου σφραγῖδα, 75. 49 515 (A.D. 181-9) γράψω τῇ ἰδίᾳ μου χειρί, BGU III. 865? (}Α.}.} ἀκολούθως τῇ ἰδ]ίᾳ σοι (1. σου) ἐπιστολῇ, 73. I. 1315 (A.D. 280) ἐκδικήσωμεν. . τοῖς ἰδίοις ἑαυτῶν δαπανήμασιν, Ρ Grenf II. 801 (A.D. 402) ὑπὲρ ἰδίας σου κεφαλῆς. It will hardly be denied, however, that in all these passages ἴδιος adds a certain emphasis, and this undoubtedly holds good of the general NT usage, as e.g. Jn 141, 1 Cor 3°, Gal 6°, Heb 7*7, etc.: see more particularly Pro/eg. p. 87 ff. (as against Deissmann BS p. 123 f.), and cf. Souter (Zex. s.v.) where the word is rendered ‘‘one’s own,’’ ‘‘ belonging to one,” ‘‘private,’’ ‘* personal,” without any mention of a weaker meaning. Winer-Schmiedel G7 § 22, 17, on the other hand, claims for the word both senses in the NT, and illustrates these in detail. It is probably impossible to draw the line strictly, so…
Read the full entry →ἴδιος (idios) — one's own/private.
ἴδιος [ῐδ], α, ον,
Attic dialect also ος, ον [Refs 5th c.BC+]:
I. one's own, pertaining to oneself: hence,
I.1. private, personal (opposed to κοινός): twice in [Refs 8th c.BC+] this business is private, not public, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἴδιος ἐν κοινῷ σταλείς embarking as a private man in a public cause, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἰ. στόλῳ χρᾶσθαι, opposed to δημοσίῳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἴδια πράσσων ἢ στρατοῦ ταχθεὶς ὕπ; [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ξυμβόλαια[Refs], etc.; τὰ ἱρά, opposed to τὰ ἴ., temples, opposed to private buildings, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ ἐν ἰδίοις discussion among private persons, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
ἴδιος
idios
of uncertain affinity; pertaining to self, i.e. one's own; by
implication, private or separate:--X his acquaintance, when they were
alone, apart, aside, due, his (own, proper, several), home, (her, our,
thine, your) own (business), private(-ly), proper, severally, their
(own).
ἴδιος, α, ν
Adj
one’s own, private, personal
ἴδιος idios 114x
one’s own, Mk. 15:20; Jn. 7:18; due, proper, specially assigned, Gal. 6:9; 1 Tim. 2:6; 6:15; Tit. 1:3; also used in NT as a simple possessive, Eph. 5:22; τὰ ἴδια, one’s home, household, people, Jn. 1:11; 16:32; 19:17; οἱ ἴδιοι, members of one’s own household, friends, Jn. 1:11; Acts 24:23; ἰδίᾳ, adverbially, respectively, 1 Cor. 12:11…
Read the full entry →ἴδιος ἴ^διος, η, ον one's own, pertaining to oneself: and so,
private, personal, πρῆξις ἥδ᾽ ἰδίη οὐ δήμιος this business is private, not public, Od.; ἴδιος ἐν κοινῷ σταλείς embarking a private man in a public cause, Pind.; πλοῦτος ἴδιος καὶ δημόσιος private and public wealth, Thuc.; τὰ ἱρὰ καὶ τὸ ἴδια temples and private buildings, Hdt.
τὰ ἴδια, either private affairs, private interests, Thuc.; or one's own property, id. Thuc.; ἴδια πράττειν to mind one's own affairs, Eur.; τὰ ἐμὰ ἴδια Dem.:—in sg., τὸ ἡμέτερον ἴδιον id. Dem.; εἰς τὸ ἴδιον for oneself, Xen.; τοὐμὸν ἴδιον for my own part, Luc.
Read the full entry →Adj-GSM — Adjective · genitive · singular · masculinegenitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked singular masculine.
A-GSM Part of Speech: Adjective Case: Genitive Number: Singular Gender: Masculine
117 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 9 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 113 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.
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branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path
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πολλαῖς δὲ καὶ ἄλλαις κέχρηται δυνάμεσι τετράς, ἃς ἀκριβέστερον καὶ ἐν τῷ περὶ αὐτῆς ἰδίῳ λόγῳ προσυποδεικτέον.
ἀλλʼ ἐπειδὴ μείζων ἦν ἡ τοῦδε τοῦ λόγου περιβολή, κατʼ αὐτὸν ἐκεῖνον χωρίσας ταῖς ἰδίαις ἀρχαῖς αὐτοῦ καὶ τῷ τέλει τὴν γραφὴν συνεμέτρησα·
ὅτε δὲ τοὺς ἰδίους ἀποστόλους τοὺς μέλλοντας κηρύσσειν τὸ εὐαγγέλιον αὐτοῦ ἐξελέξατο, ὄντας ὑπὲρ πᾶσαν ἁμαρτίαν ἀνομωτέρους, ἵνα δείξῃ, ὅτι οὐκ ἦλθεν καλέσαι δικαίους, ἀλλὰ ἁμαρτωλούς, τότε ἐφανέρωσεν ἑαυτὸν εἶναι υἱὸν θεοῦ.
ἀποκαταστησάτωσαν εἰς οἶκον τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνηλώμασιν. ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἀποδῶσι καθότι πρόκειται ἀποτεισάτωσαν ἐν τῶι ἐχομένωι μηνὶ ἡμιόλιον παραχρῆμα,
μόνιμον ἕως Ἁθὺρ λ τοῦ δεκάτου ἔτους, καὶ ἀποκαταστησάτω εἰς οἶκον πρὸς αὐτὴν τοῖς ἰδίοις. ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἀποδῷ ἐν τῷ ὡρισμένῳ χρόνῳ ἀποτεισάτω ἑκάστου κεραμίου χαλκοῦ δραχμὰς χιλίας
Παχὼν τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτους καθαρὸν ἀπὸ παντὸς καὶ ἀποκαθεσταμένον εἰς οἶκον ἐν τοῖς πεδίοις ἰδίοις ἀνηλώμασι μέτρῳ ᾧ καὶ παρείληφεν· ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἀποδῷ ἐν τῷ ὡρισμένῳ χρόνωι ἢ
The Greek word στηριγμός (i.e., *stērigmos*) is derived from στηρίζω and refers to a state of firmness or steadfastness. It encompasses meanings related to support and fixedness. In the New Testament, it appears in 2 Peter 3:17, emphasizing a firm condition of mind. The lexicons note its metaphorical use, but there is no significant disagreement among them.
** στηριγμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< στηρίζω),
[in Sm.: Is 3:1 * ;]
a setting firmly, supporting.
fixedness, firmness, steadfastness: II Pe 3:17.†
στηριγμός, -ov, ὁ, (στηρίζω), firm condition, stead fastness: of mind, 2 Pet. iii. 17. (of a standing still, Diod. 1, 81; Plut. mor. p. 76 ἃ.) ἢ
στηριγμός, “*support,” and hence “steadfastness” in its only NT occurrence (2 Pet 317). The word is found in a papyrus dealing with the heavenly bodies, P Par 19>i#13 (a.p. 138) (p. 237) Κρόνος ἐν Ὑδροχῷ, μοιρῶν T, λεπτῶν H, ἐν τῷ B στηριγμῷ, ἰδίῳ οἴκῳ, ὁρίοις “Eppod. For στήριγμα cf. P Lond 121°" (iii/A.D.) (= I. p. 100) 6 ἐπὶ τοῦ ἁγίου στηρίγματος σεαυτὸν ἱδρύσας. ,
στηριγμός (stērigmos) — security.
στηριγ-μός, ὁ,
being fixed, standing still, τῶν πλανήτων ἀστέρων [Refs 1st c.BC+] bis[Refs 3rd c.AD+]
2. fixedness, of steady light, opposed to flashing, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
3. metaphorically, ἐκπεσεῖν τοῦ ἰδίου σ. from your proper firmness, [NT]
4. Rhet., sustaining of the voice on certain words or syllables, so as to give them force, αἱ μακραὶ συλλαβαί, στηριγμούς τινας ἔχουσαι καὶ ἐγκαθίσματα [Refs 1st c.BC+]; στηριγμοὺς ἔχειν πρὸς ἄλληλα τὰ ὀνόματα mutual support, buttressing, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; compare ἀντιστηριγμός.
στηριγμός
sterigmos
from 4741; stability (figuratively):--stedfastness.
see GREEK for 4741
στηριγμός, οῦ, ὁ
n.m.
firmness, steadfastness
στηριγμός stērigmos 1x
pr. a fixing, settling; a state of firmness, fixedness; met. firmness of belief, settle frame of mind, 2 Pet. 3:17*
στηριγμός στηριγμός, οῦ, ὁ, a propping, supporting; and (in pass. sense) fixedness, steadfastness, NTest.
Noun-GSM — Noun · genitive · singular · masculinegenitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked singular masculine.
N-GSM Part of Speech: Noun Case: Genitive Number: Singular Gender: Masculine
→ See DECISION
→ See PERSEVERANCE
→ See STABILITY
1 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 1 different way. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
