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N1904Ζηνᾶν τὸν νομικὸν καὶ Ἀπολλῶν σπουδαίως πρόπεμψον, ἵνα μηδὲν αὐτοῖς λείπῃ.

BSAZenasZēnas [expert in the law] theho lawyernomikos andkai ApollosApollōs [a Jewish Christian leader] earnestlyspoudaiōs [with diligence and zeal] do equip,propempō [help on their way, provide for] so thathina nothingmēdeis to themautos may be lacking.leipō [lack nothing, be in need of nothing, for their journey, to fulfill their mission]

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Titus 3:13quick helps
In a sentencePaul instructs Titus to diligently assist Zenas and Apollos for their journey.
Who is speakingPaul, writing to Titus, providing guidance on supporting fellow workers.
Where we areIn a personal letter with practical advice for church leadership.
The hard wordΖηνᾶς
Take awaySupport is vital for those serving in ministry.
8 commentators on this verse Gill, Jamieson, Poole, Trapp & more — read them › clause verbπροπέμπω The sentence as the grammar sees it Open the tree ›
How rare are these words?in the New Testament

1 of 11 occurs nowhere else in the New Testament — a word chosen on purpose.

Bars are logarithmic — , the commonest word in the Greek New Testament, stands 19,867 times, so a linear scale would leave everything else invisible. Click a row to open that word.

Deep Study — Titus 3:13

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Context — Instructions for Church Leadersgenerated

12As soon as I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, make every effort to come to me at Nicopolis, because I have decided to winter there.
13Do your best to equip Zenas the lawyer and Apollos, so that they will have everything they need.
14And our people must also learn to devote themselves to good works in order to meet the pressing needs of others, so that they will not be unfruitful.
15All who are with me send you greetings. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with all of you.

Titus 3:13 is part of Paul's final instructions to Titus, emphasizing the importance of supporting fellow workers in the faith. He encourages Titus to ensure that Zenas, an expert in the law, and Apollos, a notable leader, are properly equipped for their journey. This highlights the communal responsibility within the church to care for its members, especially those engaged in ministry.


Cross References

ReferenceText (BSB)
1Matthew 22:35One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question:
2Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.
3Luke 10:25One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
4Luke 11:45–52One of the experts in the law told Him, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us as well.”
5Luke 14:3So Jesus asked the experts in the law and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — 11 references, hung on the phrase they belong to

ApollosActs 18:24

The Key Word Ζηνᾶς, Zēnasgenerated

The name Ζηνᾶς (Zēnas) is a proper noun, referring to a specific individual mentioned in the New Testament. He is identified as a lawyer, likely an expert in Jewish law. The parsing indicates that it is in the accusative case, singular, masculine, suggesting he is the direct object of the action in this verse.

Zenas is noted for his role in assisting Paul and is called an expert in the law. His name implies a connection to divine favor, as it means 'Jove-given.' The lexicons agree on this designation, emphasizing his importance in the early Christian community.


How Translations Differ — measured against the Berean Standard Biblegenerated

This study reads the verse in the Berean Standard Bible, which uses the phrase to equip for the verb προπέμπω. Other translations like the KJV and ASV use bring or set forward, emphasizing the act of sending Zenas and Apollos on their way.

The translations differ in their rendering of the phrase concerning what Zenas and Apollos should lack. The BSB states everything they need, while the YLT states that nothing to them may be lacking, and the BBE uses be in need of nothing, highlighting the necessity of support for their journey.


Sentence Structuregenerated

The main verb of the verse is πρόπεμψον, do equip, which governs the action of assisting Zenas and Apollos. This main clause is complemented by a subordinate clause that expresses purpose, introduced by ἵνα, so that, indicating the intended outcome of their support.

The structure includes noun phrases for both Zenas and Apollos, with the adverbial σπουδαίως modifying the verb, indicating the manner in which they should be equipped. The sentence is arranged to emphasize the action of equipping and the purpose behind it.


Septuagint Backgroundgenerated

In Titus 3:13, the Greek word ἵνα (hina) is used to convey the meaning of 'so that.' This word appears frequently in the Septuagint, where it often translates the Hebrew word מַ֫עַן (maʿan), which means 'for the sake of' or 'on account of.' This choice emphasizes the purpose behind the action of equipping Zenas and Apollos.

The word μηδὲν (mēdeis), meaning 'nothing,' also appears in the Septuagint. It translates the Hebrew אַל (al), which is used for negation. This reinforces the idea that Zenas and Apollos should lack nothing in their preparations, highlighting the importance of their readiness.


In plain words — the whole versegenerated

Titus 3:13 advises Titus to diligently assist Zenas, a lawyer, and Apollos on their journey. This support ensures they have everything they need to fulfill their mission effectively.


Frequently Asked Questionsgenerated

Who were Zenas and Apollos?

Zenas was a lawyer and Apollos was a Jewish Christian leader, both mentioned in Titus 3:13 as individuals needing support for their ministry.

What does it mean to equip someone?

To equip someone means to provide them with the necessary resources, support, and encouragement for their journey or mission.

Why is diligence emphasized in this verse?

Diligence is emphasized to highlight the importance of care and commitment in supporting fellow believers, ensuring they are well-prepared for their tasks.

How can we apply this instruction today?

We can apply this instruction by actively supporting and providing for those in ministry or service roles within our communities.


Reflection Questionsgenerated

  1. In what ways can I support those who are serving in ministry today?
  2. How can I be diligent in my responsibilities to help others in their journey of faith?
  3. What resources can I provide to those in need within my church community?
  4. How does this verse inspire me to take action in supporting fellow believers?

The early church on this verse — how the Fathers read it

Early church Fathers commented on this verse, discussing the importance of supporting fellow workers in the faith.

JeromeCommentary on Titus c. 347–420
Send Zenam, the learned in the law, and hasten to send Apollo, so that nothing may be lacking to them. This is the Apollo of whom mention is made in the epistle to the Corinthians: Every one of you saith: I indeed am of Paul;
Early Church Fathers on Titus 3 →
John ChrysostomHomily on Titus 6 c. 347–407
Ver. 14. "Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them." These were not of the number to whom Churches had been intrusted, but of the number of his companions.
Early Church Fathers on Titus 3 →
Augustine of HippoOn the Work of Monks 15.16 354–430
Nevertheless, after the apostle had said in such instruction and advice: “Now such persons we charge and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ that they work quietly and eat their own bread,” he was mindful of such needs of the holy persons who,
Early Church Fathers on Titus 3 →

Commentators on this verse — 8 expositors, verse by verse

Each of these wrote on Titus 3:13 itself, not merely on the chapter around it.

John Gill1697–1771Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Bring Zenas the lawyer,.... Whether he was brought up to the civil law, either among the Greeks or Romans, is not certain; it may be he was a Jewish lawyer, or scribe, an interpreter of Moses's law

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Robert Jamieson1802–1880Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary

Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them. Bring ... on their journey - enable them to proceed by supplying necessaries for their journey. Zenas - contracted from Zenodorus.

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Matthew Poole1624–1679Matthew Poole's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Of this Zenas we read no more in holy writ, but of Apollos we read both in the Acts, and ,5,22: it seemeth they were about to go to Paul to Nicopolis. That nothing be wanting unto them; the apostle would have Titus take care that they might want no necessaries that might accommodate them in their journey.

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John Trapp1601–1669Trapp's Complete Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

13 Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them. Ver. 13. That nothing be wanting] Those that labour in the Lord’ s work must have all necessary accommodations and encouragements. They must be set forth and brought forward on their journey and in their negotiations worthy of God, 3 John 1:6. Deduetione honorifica, Acts 15:3; Acts 20:38; Acts 21:5. A Balaam will not deal hardly with his ass, if once he perceive the Lord to be in him, and to speak by him; shall we deal unworthily with God’ s ministers, in whom God is of a truth, 1 Corinthians 14:25, and hath given unto them the ministry of reconciliation? 2 Corinthians 5:8.

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Charles John Ellicott1819–1905Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(13) Bring Zenas the lawyer.—A name contracted, as it seems, from Zenodorus. The term “lawyer” might possibly indicate that this friend of Paul’s was a Roman jurist, but it is more likely that the law in which he was an expert was that of Moses. Hippolytus numbers him among the seventy disciples, and relates how in after years he was Bishop of Diospolis. He is never mentioned by name in the New Testament, except in this place. And Apollos.—This famous teacher appears often in the New Testament records, in the Acts and several of the Epistles. A distinguished Alexandrian scholar and a disciple of John the Baptist, he was converted to Christianity by the agency of the devoted Priscilla and…

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AdamClarkeAdam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Verse 13. Bring Zenas the lawyer] This person is only mentioned in this place; whether he was a Jewish, Roman, or Greek lawyer, we cannot tell. And Apollos] Of this person we have some valuable particulars in Acts 18:24; 1 Corinthians 1:12; 1 Corinthians 3:5-6; 1 Corinthians 4:6. Either St. Paul had left these at Crete when he visited that island, or he had heard that, in their evangelical itinerancy, they were about to pass through it. On their journey diligently] Afford them the means to defray their expenses. The Churches through which these evangelists passed, bore their expenses from one to the other. See 3 John 1:6.

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CambridgeThe Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

13. Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey] The verb ‘bring on their journey’ is literally ‘send forward,’ and so Vulg. here ‘praemitte’; but in the other eight places of its use in N.T. ‘deduco’ is used, that is, ‘conduct,’ ‘take them a certain part of the way.’ So in old provincial English ‘I will send you a mile,’ meaning ‘accompany you.’ R.V. in four places has ‘bring on the way,’ in five, ‘set forward on the journey;’ but in only one, Acts 21:5, does the context require that the ‘accompanying’ should be prominent, ‘they all with wives and children brought us on our way till we were out of the city.’ Here set forward with less thought of bringing (A.V.) seems…

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Albert Barnes1798–1870Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bring Zenas the lawyer - - This person is not elsewhere mentioned in the New Testament, and nothing more is known of him.

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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

BSBBerean Standard Bible2020

Do your best to equip Zenas the lawyer and Apollos, so that they will have everything they need.

WEBWorld English Bible2000

Send Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them.

MSBMajority Standard Bible2022

Do your best to equip Zenas the lawyer and Apollos, so that they will have everything they need.

NETBNew English Translation2006

Make every effort to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way; make sure they have what they need.

Tyndale line

KJVKing James Version1611

Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.

ASVAmerican Standard Version1901

Set forward Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.

RVARevised Version, American1894

Set forward Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.

NWBWebster's Bible1833

Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing may be wanting to them.

GNVGeneva Bible1599

Bring Zenas the expounder of the Lawe, and Apollos on their iourney diligently, that they lacke nothing.

Strictly literal

DBYDarby Translation1890

Zenas the lawyer and Apollos set forward diligently on their way, that nothing may be lacking to them;

YLTYoung's Literal Translation1862

Zenas the lawyer and Apollos bring diligently on their way, that nothing to them may be lacking,

LSVLiteral Standard Version2020

Diligently send forth Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way, that nothing to them may be lacking,

ULBUnlocked Literal Bible2017

Do everything you can to send on their way Zenas the lawyer and Apollos, so that they lack nothing.

From the Latin

DRADouay-Rheims (Challoner)1899

Send forward Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollo, with care, that nothing be wanting to them.

Simplified

FBVFree Bible Version2020

Do all you can to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way so that they have everything they need.

BBEBible in Basic English1949

Send Zenas, the man of law, and Apollos on their journey with all care, so that they may be in need of nothing.

Word by word, the decisions they made

λείπῃ.leipō may be lacking. G3007 3 different renderings
may be lackingDBY LSV WEB YLT
lack nothingULB
be in need of nothingBBE

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.

clauseclausenoun phrase · objectnoun phraseΖηνᾶνZenasnoun phraseτὸνtheνομικὸνlawyerκαὶandἈπολλῶνApollosadverbialσπουδαίωςearnestlyverbπρόπεμψονequipclauseἵναso thatclausesubjectμηδὲνnothingadverbialαὐτοῖςto themverbλείπῃshould be lacking

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.

Latin VulgateAD 382–405

Zenam legisperitum et Apollo sollicite præmitte, ut nihil illis desit.

Jerome revised the Old Latin against the Greek from AD 382; the Latin west read this text for a thousand years.

Syriac Peshittaby AD 400

ܥܠ ܙܢܐ ܕܝܢ ܣܦܪܐ ܘܥܠ ܐܦܠܘ ܢܬܒܛܠ ܠܟ ܕܬܠܘܐ ܐܢܘܢ ܫܦܝܪ ܕܡܕܡ ܠܐ ܢܚܣܪ ܠܗܘܢ

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.

Nestle-Aland 28th edition2012 · Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft

Ζηνᾶν τὸν νομικὸν καὶ Ἀπολλῶν σπουδαίως πρόπεμψον, ἵνα μηδὲν αὐτοῖς λείπῃ.

The standard critical text of the New Testament.

Nestle-Aland 27th edition1993 · Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft

Ζηνᾶν τὸν νομικὸν καὶ Ἀπολλῶν σπουδαίως πρόπεμψον, ἵνα μηδὲν αὐτοῖς λείπῃ.

The previous edition, still widely cited.

SBL Greek New Testament2010 · Michael Holmes

Ζηνᾶν τὸν νομικὸν καὶ Ἀπολλῶν σπουδαίως πρόπεμψον, ἵνα μηδὲν αὐτοῖς λείπῃ.

The Society of Biblical Literature edition, freely licensed.

Westcott–Hort1881 · Westcott and Hort

Ζηνᾶν τὸν νομικὸν καὶ Ἀπολλῶν σπουδαίως πρόπεμψον, ἵνα μηδὲν αὐτοῖς λείπῃ.

The edition that turned scholarship toward the earliest manuscripts.

Tregelles1857–1879 · Samuel Prideaux Tregelles

Ζηνᾶν τὸν νομικὸν καὶ Ἀπολλῶν σπουδαίως πρόπεμψον, ἵνα μηδὲν αὐτοῖς λείπῃ.

An independent critical text built from the oldest witnesses then known.

Tyndale House Greek NT2017 · Tyndale House, Cambridge

Ζηνᾶν τὸν νομικὸν καὶ Ἀπολλῶν σπουδαίως πρόπεμψον, ἵνα μηδὲν αὐτοῖς λείπῃ.

A recent critical edition following documentary evidence closely.

Byzantine majority text2018 · Robinson–Pierpont

Ζηνᾶν τὸν νομικὸν καὶ Ἀπολλῶν σπουδαίως πρόπεμψον, ἵνα μηδὲν αὐτοῖς λείπῃ.

The reading of the majority of surviving manuscripts.

Textus Receptus1550/1894 lineage

Ζηνᾶν τὸν νομικὸν καὶ Ἀπολλῶν σπουδαίως πρόπεμψον, ἵνα μηδὲν αὐτοῖς λείπῃ.

The printed tradition behind the King James Version.

Every witness on this verse all agree
Critical editions
Nestle-Aland 28th edition2012Nestle-Aland 27th edition1993SBL Greek New Testament2010Westcott–Hort1881Tregelles1857–1879Tyndale House Greek NT2017
Byzantine / Majority
Byzantine majority text2018
Received Text
Textus Receptus1550/1894

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.

Apparatus — SBL Greek New Testament, CC BY 4.0


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.

Titus 3:13ΖηνᾶςZenasZenasΖηνᾶςthetheνομικόςlawyerlawyerνομικόςκαίandandκαίἈπολλῶςApollosApollosἈπολλῶςσπουδαίωςearnestlyearnestlyσπουδαίωςπροπέμπωdo equip,do equip,προπέμπωἵναso thatso thatἵναμηδείςnothingnothingμηδείςαὐτόςto themto themαὐτόςλείπωmay be lackmay be lacking.λείπωνόμοςn.m. a lawn.m. a law, theνόμοςσπουδαῖοςAdj diligeAdj diligent, eσπουδαῖοςπρόPrep. befoPrep. beforeπρόἑαυτοῦRefl.pr. hRefl.pr. himselἑαυτοῦΖεύςn.m. Zeusn.m. ZeusΖεύςδῶρονn.n. a gifn.n. a gift, prδῶρονἈπολλωνίαn.f. Apolln.f. ApolloniaἈπολλωνίαArticle thArticle theἀήρn.m. airn.m. airἀήροὐαίIj. & n.inIj. & n.indcl. οὐαίΦαρισαῖοςn.m. a Phan.m. a PhariseeΦαρισαῖοςΚηφᾶςn.m. Cephan.m. CephasΚηφᾶςεἴτεCj. and ifCj. and if, wheεἴτεὑπόPrep. by, Prep. by, underὑπόπορεύομαιv. I travev. I travel, joπορεύομαιπληρόωv. I fill,v. I fill, fulfπληρόωχαράn.f. joy, n.f. joy, gladnχαράπαραγγέλλωv. I notifv. I notify, coπαραγγέλλω
meets it a little oftener than chancemeets it far oftener than chancebuilt from the same roottwo words of the verse share ita word of this versea related word

Lexicons — every word in Titus 3:13

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.

Zenas the lawyer and Apollos earnestly do equip, so that nothing to them may be lacking.
ΖηνᾶνZēnas Zenas G2211 Noun · accusative · singular · masculine
1× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Titus than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
Zenas was a Christian who helped Paul, mentioned in Titus 3:13. His name means Jove-given, and he was likely a lawyer or expert in Jewish law.
Amplified meaning
expert in the law
Tyndale gloss
Zenas
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

Ζηνᾶς is a proper name, Zenas, likely a contraction of Ζηνόδωρος. It appears in the New Testament in Titus 3:13. The name is noted for its potential meaning related to being 'Jove-given.' There are no significant disagreements among the lexicons regarding this entry.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

Ζηνᾶς, -ᾶ, acc. -ᾶν

(contr. from Ζηνόδωρος),

Zenas: Tit 3:13.†

Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

Ζηνᾶς. This proper name (Tit 315), probably a contraction for Ζηνόδωρος (Lightfoot on Col 415), appears in a late Roman wall-scribbling at Magnesia, Magn 323. Cf. “Aprepas, *Odvpras—pet-names for the longer forms in -δωρος. Cytéw. PSI IV. 3825 (B.c. 248-7) ξύλα ἐζητήκαμεν πανταχοῦ. The verb is found along with εὑρίσκω in the curious nursery acrostic P Tebt II. 278% (early i/A.D.) ζητῶι Kal οὐχ εὑρίσκωι : cf. P Giss I. 21° (Rom.) ἐζήτησα τὸ λακώνιον καὶ οὐχ εὗρον ἀλλὰ ἀτταλιανὸν σαπρόν, where both λακώνιον and ἀτταλιανόν are to be understood as articles of dress. In their note on P Ryl II. 22074, an official list of names belonging to ii/A.D., the editors state that the note ζη(τητέον) δίπ(λωμα) is found frequently in the margin of similar fragments, and that in one case οὐχ εὑρέθ(η) . . . occurs. With Mt 77 cf. especially the new Logion P Oxy IV. 654° μὴ παυσάσθω ὁ ζηϊτών ἕως ἂν] εὕρῃ…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

Ζηνᾶς (Zēnas) — Zenas.

Ζηνᾶς, -ᾶ, accusative -ᾶν

(contr. from Ζηνόδωρος),

Zenas: Tit.3:13.†

(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)

Strong's Greek Dictionary

Ζηνᾶς

Zenas

probably contracted from a poetic form of 2203 and 1435; Jove-given;

Zenas, a Christian:--Zenas.

see GREEK for 2203

see GREEK for 1435

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

Ζηνᾶς, ᾶν, ὁ

n.m.

Zenas

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

Ζηνᾶς Zēnas 1x

Zenas, pr. name, Tit. 3:13*

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Noun-ASM — Noun · accusative · singular · masculine
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

N-ASM Part of Speech: Noun Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Masculine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ze'-nas (Zenas (Tit 3:13); the name in full would probably be Zenodorus, literally, meaning "the gift of Zeus"):

1. A Jewish Lawyer:

Paul calls Zenas "the lawyer." The meaning of this is, that, previous to his becoming a Christian, he had been a Jewish lawyer. The lawyers were that class of Jewish teachers who were specially learned in the Mosaic Law, and who interpreted that Law, and taught it to the people.

They are met with again and again in the Gospels, where they frequently came into contact with Christ, usually in a manner hostile to Him. For example, "A certain lawyer stood up and made trial of him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" (Lu 10:25). our Lord replied to him on his own ground, asking, "What is written in the law? how readest thou?"…

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Zenas

A disciple called “the lawyer,” whom Paul wished Titus to bring with him (Titus 3:13). Nothing more is known of him.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

a believer, and, as may be inferred from the context, a preacher of the gospel, who is mentioned in (Titus 3:13) in connection with Apollos. He is further described as "the lawyer." It is impossible to determine whether Zenas was a Roman jurisconsult or a Jewish doctor.

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

A pious lawyer, and a friend of Paul, who, writing from Nicopolis during the last year of his life, commends him and Apollos, then at Crete on a journey, to the kind offices of Titus, Ti 3:13. His name is Greek, and his profession may have been Greek civil law, rather than Jewish law.

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
100%zenas
zenas100% · 1×

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.

ConcordanceΖηνᾶς · 1× in the New Testament
Titus
Across the New Testament1 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 1st c. AD 3rd c. AD
P.Harrauer 33 RoPtolemais Euergetis (?) (Arsinoites)AD 15

Ἰσάκεως ιβ Πάπος Θηδᾶτος η Δροπίδης Πτολεμαίου η Πτολεμαῖος Ἰακοῦβου η Τεύφιλος Ἰσάκεως η Ζηνᾶς ὁμοίως δ Πολέμων Λ … ο η Σώπατρος ὁμοίως δ Ἰάκουβος Δωσθοῦ δ Ἀγήνωρ

APF 5 (1913), p. 380-381 no. 41Aueris (Arsinoites)AD 15

Κόιντος Ζηνᾶς Κοίντου υἱὸς Γαίωι Ἰουλίωι Ζωσίμῳ χαίρειν. ἀπέχω παρὰ σοῦ τὰς κατὰ διαθήκην Ῥωμαικὴν καταλελειμμένας

P.Oxy. 47 3333OxyrhynchitesAD 92

χμ· ὧν εἶναι Σούεως Διοσκοῦς Οὐάλεντος τοῦ Ἀρίστωνος μητρὸς Τεκω οὐλὴ ἀντικνημίῳ δεξιῷ … Ζηνᾶς Σύρου τοῦ Φιλώτου μητρὸς Θαΐδος οὐλὴ ἀντικνημίῳ ἀριστερῷ Κλᾶρος Παποντῶτος τοῦ Πετσίριος μητρὸς Τσενπολήμιος

Zenas the lawyer and Apollos earnestly do equip, so that nothing to them may be lacking.
τὸνho the G3588 Article · accusative · singular · masculine
19,783× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Titus as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
The Greek word for 'the' or 'this', used to point out a specific person or thing, like in Acts 17:28. It can also mean 'he', 'she', or 'it'.
Tyndale gloss
the/this/who
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

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.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

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).

Distributive, ὁ μὲν . . . ὁ δέ, the one . . . the other: I Co 7:7, Ga 4:22; pl., Ac 14:4, 17:32, Phl 1:16, al.; οἱ μὲν . . . ἄλλοι δέ, Mt 16:14, Jo 7:12; οἱ μεν̀ . . . ὁ δέ, He 7:21, 23.

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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…

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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…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

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…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

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.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ὁ, ἡ, τό

Article

the

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

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

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

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.

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Art-ASM — Article · accusative · singular · masculine
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

T-ASM Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Masculine

English usagewhat the translators’ English meant
Webster's Dictionary (1828), Webster's Unabridged (1913), Webster's Dictionary (1806)

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.

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
64%the
the64% · 13160×<the>28% · 5846×those3% · 597×other renderings4% · 788×other renderings1% · 294×

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.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
subject34%adverbial32%object24%predicate5%indirect object4%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 19,783 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
αὐτόςεἰμίI am, existἐγώ
ἐν
καίand, even, also,αὐτόςArticle the
εἰς
αὐτόςεἰσέρχομαιI go in, come inἔρχομαιI come, go
αὐτός
λέγωI say, speakδέbut, on the otheπρός
εἰμίI am, exist
οὗτοςσύἐγώ
the19783×
what comes after →
θεόςGod, a god
Article theκαίand, even, also,ἐγώ
δέbut, on the other ha
λέγωI say, speakἸησοῦςJesusἀποκρίνομαιI answer, reply
ἸησοῦςJesus
λέγωI say, speakκαίand, even, also,Article the
κύριοςlord, Lord, master,
ἐγώἸησοῦςJesusArticle the
πατήρfather, Father, ance
ἐγώσύαὐτός

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

Concordance · 19,783× in the New Testament
Matthew Acts Luke John Revelation Mark Romans 1 Corinthians Hebrews 2 Corinthians Ephesians 1 John

40 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 1c. AD 40

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.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.argc. AD 75–95

τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.1c. AD 100

Χαίρετε, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἐν εἰρήνῃ.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 1st c. AD 3rd c. BC 6th c. AD
P.Stras. 2 89Pathyris100 BC

r βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν

P.Adl. 11Pathyris99 BC

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.

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν

Zenas the lawyer and Apollos earnestly do equip, so that nothing to them may be lacking.
νομικὸνnomikos lawyer G3544 Adjective · accusative · singular · masculine
9× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Titus than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
A lawyer in the Bible is someone who knows a lot about God's laws, like in Matthew 22:35 where a lawyer asks Jesus a question. This word is used to describe people who are experts in the laws of Moses.
Tyndale gloss
lawyer
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word νομικός (i.e., *nomikos*) is derived from νόμος (law) and means 'pertaining to law' or 'learned in the law.' It refers to a lawyer or legal expert, particularly in the context of the Mosaic law, as seen in verses like Matthew 22:35 and Luke 10:25. The lexicons agree that it encompasses both an adjective and a noun form.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

** νομικός, -ή, -όν

(< νόμος),

[in LXX: IV Mac 5:4*;]

relating to law: μάχαι, Tit 3:9.

learned in the law; as subst., ὁ ν. (EV, lawyer): Mt 22:35, Lk 10:25, Tit 3:13; pl., Lk 7:30 11:45, 46, 52 14:3 (cf. MM, xvii).†

SYN.: γραμματεύς, q.v.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

νομικός, -7, τόν, (νόμος), pertaining to (the) law (Plat., Aristot , al.) : μάχαι, Tit. iii. 9; ὁ νομικός, one learned in the law, in the N. T. an interpreter and teacher of the Mosaic law [A. V. α lawyer; cf. γραμματεύς, 2]: Mt. xxii. 85; Lk. x. 25; Tit. iii. 13; plur., Lk. vii. 30; xi. 45 sq. 525 xiv. 3.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

νομικός (nomikos) — lawyer.

νομ-ικός, ή, όν,

relating to laws, αἴτια, title of work by Democritus; resting on law, ἤθη [Refs 5th c.BC+]; conventional, ν. δίκαιον, opposed to φυσικόν, [Refs 4th c.BC+] adverb -κῶς after the manner of law, i.e. in a broad, general way, [Refs]

2. forensic, μάχαι [NT]; ἀγῶνες, opposed to λογικοί, ἠθικοί, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; relating to points of law (opposed to matters of fact), στάσις, ζήτημα, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ν. ὀνόματα law-terms, [Refs]law matters, [Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb -κῶς by legal process, [Refs]

II. learned in the law, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; doctor of the Jewish law, [NT]

II.2. lawyer, notary, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

II.3. legal adviser, assessor of a magistrate, Mitteis [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ν. ἄριστος [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

νομικός

nomikos

from 3551; according (or pertaining) to law, i.e. legal

(ceremonially); as noun, an expert in the (Mosaic) law:--about the

law, lawyer.

see GREEK for 3551

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

νομικός, ή, όν

Adj

about law, one learned in the Law

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

νομικός nomikos 9x

pertaining to law; relating to the Mosaic law, Tit. 3:9; as a subst., one skilled in law, a jurist, lawyer, Tit. 3:13; spc. an interpreter and teacher of the Mosaic law, Mt. 22:35

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

νομικός νόμος resting on law, conventional, Arist.:—adv. -κῶς, id. Arist.

relating to the law, NTest. Plut.

learned in the law, a lawyer, NTest.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Adj-ASM — Adjective · accusative · singular · masculine
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

A-ASM Part of Speech: Adjective Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Masculine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

lo'-yer (nomikos, "according or pertaining to law," i.e. legal; as noun, "an expert in law," "about the law," "lawyer" (Mt 22:35; Lu 7:30; 10:25; 11:45,46,52; 14:3; Tit 3:13)): The work of the "lawyers," frequently spoken of as "scribes," also known as "doctors" of the law (Lu 2:46 margin), was first of all that of jurists. Their business was threefold:

(1) to study and interpret the law;

(2) to instruct the Hebrew youth in the law;

(3) to decide questions of the law. The first two they did as scholars and teachers, the last as advisers in some court.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Lawyer

Among the Jews, was one versed in the laws of Moses, which he expounded in the schools and synagogues (Matt. 22:35; Luke 10:25). The functions of the “lawyer” and “scribe” were identical. (See DOCTOR.)

Smith's Bible Dictionary

The title "lawyer" is generally supposed to be equivalent to the title "scribe." The scribe expounded the law in the synagogues and schools. [See SCRIBES]

Nave's Topical Bible

→ (One versed in the Mosaic law)

→ Test Jesus with questions Mt 22:35; Lu 10:25-37

→ Jesus' remarks against Lu 11:45-52

→ Zenas Tit 3:13

→ See LITIGATION

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
56%lawyers
lawyers56% · 5×lawyer33% · 3×about law11% · 1×

9 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 3 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
subject44%indirect object22%object22%adverbial11%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 9 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
Article the
σύκαίand, even, also,τὶς
αὐτός
ἐκ
ὁράωI see, look upon, ex
καίand, even, also,
μάχηstrife, contention,
καίand, even, also,
νομικόςlawyer
what comes after →
καίand, even, also, nam
Φαρισαῖοςa PhariseeἈπολλῶςApollos
πειράζωI try, tempt, test
αὐτός
Article the
βουλήcounsel, deliber
τὶς
ἀνίστημιI raise up, set
λέγωI say, speak
αὐτός

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

Concordanceνομικός · 9× in the New Testament
Luke Titus Matthew
Across the New Testament3 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The company it keepswords that stand beside it more often than chance
In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 6th c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 7th c. AD
P.Mich. 8 476Alexandria (?)AD 101–AD 125

ἐπιστολῆς τὴν ἀντιφώνησιν. ἄσπασαι πάντας τοὺς ἐκ τοῦ Καισαρείου κατʼ ὄνομα. ἄσπασαι Δίδυμον τὸν νομικὸν πανοικί. ἐρεῖς δὲ Λονγείνῳ ὅτι ἐλπίζω πάλιν ἀναβῆναι. ἓν δὲ εὐχαριστῶ τοῖς θεοῖς ὅτι

P.Mich. 8 477AlexandriaAD 101–AD 125

οὐ δύναμαι αὐτὸ καταχωρίσαι. εὗρον δὲ καὶ Παπεῖριν Ἀπολλινᾶριν ᾧ ἐδήλωσα ἃ ἤκουσα τῶν νομικῶν, καὶ ἔλεγέ μοι ἄφες σὺ ἕως οὗ αὐτῷ ἐὰν ἦν δυνατὸν καταβῆναι. ἐπειδὴ σὺ

P.Ross.Georg. 2 20Arsinoites (?)AD 146

ἀγορασμὸν ἐποίησεν τῆς τιμῆς φανείσης ἀδότου κατὰ τὴν γενομένην ἐξέτασιν. ὁ γράψας τὴν οἰκονομίαν νομικὸς Σαραπίων, ὃς … … ἀκολούθως τοῖς γενομένοις ὑπομνηματισμοῖς … … … ντων καὶ ἐπὶ

Zenas the lawyer and Apollos earnestly do equip, so that nothing to them may be lacking.
καὶkai and G2532 Conjunction
8,978× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Titus as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
And or also, a connecting word used to join ideas or words, like in Matthew 2:18 and Hebrews 1:1.
Tyndale gloss
and
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

καί (kai) is a conjunction meaning 'and,' used to connect words, phrases, and clauses. It serves various functions, including copulative and adjunctive uses, and can express cumulative ideas like 'also' or 'even.' The New Testament frequently employs it to link terms and sentences, as seen in verses like Matthew 2:18 and John 10:3. Abbott-Smith notes its use in both simple and complex structures, while Thayer emphasizes its role as the most common particle in the New Testament.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

καί,

conj.,

and.

Copulative.

Connecting single words;

in general: Mt 2:18 16:1, Mk 2:15, Lk 8:15, He 1:1, al. mult.; repeated before each of the terms in a series, Mt 23:23, Lk 14:21, Ro 7:12 9:4, al.;

connecting numerals (WM, § 37, 4): Jo 2:20, Ac 13:20;

joining terms which are not mutually exclusive, as the part with the whole: Mt 8:33 26:59, Mk 16:17,

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

καί, a conj., and; the most freq. by far of all the particles in the N. T. [On its uses see W. § 53, 3sqq.; B. 361 (310) sqq., and ef. Ellicott on Phil. iv. 12; on the difference between it and τέ see 8. v. τέ ad init. ] I. It serves as a copulative i.e. to connect (Lat. et, atque, Germ. und) ; 1. it connects single words or terms: a. univ., as of Φαρισαῖοι καὶ Σαδδουκαῖοι, Mt. xvi. 1; ὁ θεὸς καὶ πατήρ, he who is God and Father (see θεός, 3); ἐν καρδίᾳ καλῇ καὶ ἀγαθῇ, Lk. viii. 15; πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως, ΗΘ}. 1. 1; it is repeated before single terms, to each of which its own force and weight is thus given: ἡ υἱοθεσία καὶ ἡ δόξα καὶ ai διαθῆκαι καὶ ἡ νομοθεσία καὶ ἡ λατρεία καὶ αἱ ἐπαγγελίαι, Ro. ix. 4 ; ἁγία καὶ δικαία καὶ ἀγαθή, Ro. vii. 12; add, Mt. xxiii. 23; Lk. xiv. 21; Jn. xvi. 8; Acts xv. 20, 29; xxi. 25; Heb. ix. 10; Rey. v. 12; xviii. 12 sq.; ef. W. 519 sq. (484). b. it…

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και. In LAE p. 129 ff. Deissmann discusses the thoroughly popular character of the Johannine style with its short paratactic sentences, introduced by kal. . . καί. To illustrate this, he cites amongst other exx. a Dream from the Serapeum, P Par 51 (B.C. 160) (= Selections, p. 18 ff. : see especially the amended readings in Archiv vi. p. 204), which runs—** ὦμ[ην] βατί -- δ)ίζειν pe [ἀπ]ὸ λειβὸς ἕως ἀ[ πηλι]ώτου, καὶ ἀναπίπτομαι ἐπ᾿ ἄχυρον" καὶ [ἄν]θρωπ[ος9] ἀπὸ λιβός μου, ἐχόμενός μου’ ἀναπίπτει καὶ αὐτός, καὶ ὥσπερ κεκλειμμ[évot] μου ἦσαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου, καὶ ἐξαί[φνης] ἀνύγω τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς pov, καὶ ὁρῶ kTA., “ I dreamed that I was going from West to East, and I lie down upon chaff. And there | αὐτὸ (deleted in the original) Σεμφθεῖ. | ἐκ καινῆς ἐν Σομολ(ῶ)…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

καί (kai) — and.

καί,

conjunction, copulative, joining words and sentences,

__A and; also adverb, even, also, just, frequently expressing emphatic assertion or assent, corresponding as positive to the negative οὐ (μή) or οὐδέ (μηδέ). copulative, and,

__A.I joining words or sentences to those preceding, ἦ, καὶ κυανέῃσιν ἐπ᾽ ὀφρύσινεῦσε Κρονίων [Refs 8th c.BC+]: repeated with two or more Nouns, αἱ δὲ ἔλαφοι κ. δορκάδες κ. οἱ ἄγριοι οἶες κ. οἱ ὄνοι οἱ ἄγριοι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; joining only the last pair, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὁ ὄχλος πλείων κ. πλείων ἐπέρρει more and more, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; to add epithets after πολύς, πολλὰ κ. ἐσθλά [Refs 8th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

καί

kai

apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also

a cumulative force; and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in

connection (or composition) with other particles or small words:--and,

also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when,

yet.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

καί

Cj.

and, even, also, namely

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

καί kai 9x

(1) and, Mt. 2:2, 3, 11; 4:22; (2) καί ... καί, both ... and; (3) as a cumulative particle, also, too, Mt. 5:39; Jn. 8:19; 1 Cor. 11:6; (4) emphatic, even, also, Mt. 10:30; 1 Cor. 2:10; in NT adversative, but, Mt. 11:19; also introductory of the apodosis of a sentence, Gal. 3:28; Jas. 2:4

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Conj — Conjunction
conjunction — it joins clauses, and never changes form.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

CONJ CONJunction or conjunctive particle

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
89%and
and89% · 8448×also8% · 714×other renderings2% · 191×other renderings1% · 124×

9,477 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 42 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial16%subject13%object10%predicate3%verb2%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 8,978 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
αὐτός
ἐνἐπίπρός
σύ
χάριςgrace, favor, kiπρόςπατήρfather, Father,
ἐγώ
πατήρfather, Father, πρόςθεόςGod, a god
εἰμίI am, exist
αὐτόςArticle theἐγώ
θεόςGod, a god
Article theθέλημαwill, wish, desiδέbut, on the othe
καίand8978×
what comes after →
Article the
ἀδελφόςa brotherπατήρfather, Father, μήτηρa mother
λέγωI say, speak
αὐτόςArticle theπρός
οὐNeg
εἰμίI am, existμήNegδύναμαιI am powerful, a
ὁράωI see, look upon, ex
Article theαὐτόςἀνήρa male human bei
ἐν
Article theπᾶςall, the whole, ὅλοςall, the whole,

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

Concordanceκαί · 8,978× in the New Testament
Luke Matthew Revelation Acts Mark John 1 Corinthians Romans Hebrews 2 Corinthians Ephesians 1 John

3 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome Ignatius of Antioch
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 1c. AD 40

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.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.argc. AD 75–95

ἡ τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.1c. AD 100

Χαίρετε, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἐν εἰρήνῃ.

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2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 1st c. AD 6th c. AD
P.Stras. 2 89Pathyris100 BC

r βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν καὶ κανηφόρου τῶν

P.Adl. 11Pathyris99 BC

1 ἔτους ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν καὶ κανηφόρου τῶν

Zenas the lawyer and Apollos earnestly do equip, so that nothing to them may be lacking.
ἈπολλῶνApollōs Apollos G625 Noun · accusative · singular · masculine
10× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Titus than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
Apollos was a Jewish Christian leader who is mentioned in the New Testament, particularly in 1 Corinthians and Acts, where he is described as a skilled speaker and evangelist.
Amplified meaning
a Jewish Christian leader
Tyndale gloss
Apollos
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word Ἀπολλῶς refers to Apollos, likely a shortened form of Ἀπολλώνιος. It denotes an Alexandrian Jew who became a Christian teacher associated with Paul. The name appears in several New Testament passages, including Acts 18:24 and 1 Corinthians 1:12. There is some debate among lexicographers about its derivation and whether it refers to a single individual.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

Ἀπολλώς, -ώ, ὁ

(perh. contr. from Ἀπολλώνιος, Ac 18:24 D),

Apollos: Ac 18:24 19:1, I Co 1:12 3:4-6, 22 4:6 16:12, Tit 3:13.†

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

᾿Απολλώς [acc. to some, contr. fr. ᾿Απολλώνιος, W. 102 (97) ; ace. to others, the ὁ is lengthened, cf. Fick, Griech. Personennamen, p. xxi.], gen. τώ (cf. B. 20 (18) sq.; [W62 (61)]), accus. τώ (Acts xix. 1) and -ών (1 Co. iv. 6 T Tr WH; Tit. ii. 13 T WH; cf. [WH. App. p. 157]; Kiihner i. p. 315), ὁ, Apollos, an Alexandrian Jew who became a Christian and a teacher of Christianity, attached to the apostle Paul: Acts xviii. 24; xix. 1; 1 Co. i. 12; iii. 4 sqq. 22; iv. 6; xvi. 12; Tit. iii. 13.

Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

᾿Απολλώς has σϑη. ᾿Απολλῶτος in an inscr. from the Serapeum at Memphis. See /Pretstgke 1917, who accents the nom. ᾿Απολλῶς : since it is probably short for ᾿Απολλώνιος (which occurs in Codex Bezae), this accords with analogy. The name can be quoted from Osty 1319 (B.C. 7), 1577 (A.D. 132), Preisighe 1113 (A.D. 147-8), P Lond g2944,% (ii/iii A.D.) (ΞΞ ΠῚ. p. 42 f.), 2b. 12338 (A.D. 211) (ΞΞ 111. p. 58), where the editors would like to make ᾿Απολλῶς gen., and P Goodsp 37,1420 (a.p. 143) ᾿Απολλῶτι. exx., Without seeking for more we may observe that ᾿Απολλώνιος was an extraordinarily common name, no fewer than 39 persons bearing it in the inscrr. of Sy//. (Naturally the abbreviated name does not figure in the more formal inscriptional style.) ᾿Απολλόδωpos has over 50, and ᾿Απολλωνίδης (-Sas) half as many: ᾿Απολλῶς might be a short form of these also. So apart from the very precise…

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Ἀπολλῶς (Apollōs) — Apollos.

Ἀπολλώς, -ώ, ὁ

(perh. contr. from Ἀπολλώνιος, Act.18:24 D)

Apollos: Act.18:24 19:1, 1Co.1:12 3:4-6 3:22 4:6 16:12, Tit.3:13.†

(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)

Strong's Greek Dictionary

Ἀπολλῶς

Apollos

probably from the same as 624; Apollos, an Israelite:--Apollos.

see GREEK for 624

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

Ἀπολλώς, ώ, ὁ

n.m.

Apollos

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

Ἀπολλῶς Apollōs 10x

Apollos, pr. name, Acts 18:24; 19:1; 1 Cor. 1:12; 3:4-6, 22; 4:6; 16:12; Tit. 3:13*

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Noun-ASM — Noun · accusative · singular · masculine
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

N-ASM Part of Speech: Noun Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Masculine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

a-pol'-os (Apollos, the short form of Apollonius): Apollos was a Jew of Alexandrian race (Ac 18:24) who reached Ephesus in the summer of 54 AD, while Paul was on his third missionary journey, and there he "spake and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus" (Ac 18:25). That he was eminently fitted for the task is indicated by the fact of his being a "learned man," "mighty in the scriptures," "fervent in spirit," "instructed in the way of the Lord" (Ac 18:24,25). His teaching was however incomplete in that he knew "only the baptism of John" (Ac 18:25), and this has given rise to some controversy. According to Blass, his information was derived from a written gospel…

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Apollos

A Jew “born at Alexandria,” a man well versed in the Scriptures and eloquent (Acts 18:24; R.V., “learned”). He came to Ephesus (about A.D. 49), where he spake “boldly” in the synagogue (18:26), although he did not know as yet that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah. Aquila and Priscilla instructed him more perfectly in “the way of God”, i.e., in the knowledge of Christ. He then proceeded to Corinth, where he met Paul (Acts 18:27; 19:1). He was there very useful in watering the good seed Paul had sown (1 Cor. 1:12), and in gaining many to Christ. His disciples were much attached to him (1 Cor. 3:4-7, 22). He was with Paul at Ephesus when he wrote the First Epistle to…

Smith's Bible Dictionary

(given by Apollo) a Jew from Alexandria, eloquent (which may also mean learned) and mighty in the Scriptures; one instructed in the way of the Lord, according to the imperfect view of the disciples of John the Baptist, (Acts 18:24) but on his coming to Ephesus during a temporary absence of St. Paul, A.D. 54, more perfectly taught by Aquila and Priscilla. After this he became a preacher of the gospel, first in Achaia and then in Corinth. (Acts 18:27; 19:1) When the apostle wrote his First Epistle to the Corinthians, Apollos was with or near him, (1 Corinthians 16:12) probably at Ephesus in A.D. 57. He is mentioned but once more in the New Testament, in (Titus 3:13) After…

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

A Jew of Alexandria, a learned and eloquent man, who through the Scriptures and the ministry of John the Baptist became a Christian. He visited Ephesus about A. D. 54, and publicly proclaimed his faith in Christ; whereupon he was further instructed in gospel truth. Passing thence into Achia, he preached with great power and success, especially among the Jews, Ac 19:1 1Co 3:6. His character was not unlike that of Paul; they were equally grieved at the dissension of the Corinthians, and at those personal partialities which led many away from Christ, 1Co 3:4-22 16:12; and they cooperated to the end in serving him, Tit 3:13. Jerome is of opinion that Apollos afterwards returned to…

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
100%apollos
apollos100% · 10×

10 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.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
subject40%predicate30%adverbial20%object10%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 10 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
δέbut, on the other ha
ἐγώπερί
καίand, even, also, nam
ἐμαυτοῦνομικόςabout law, one l
τὶς
δέbut, on the othe
Article the
Article the
ἐγώ
δέbut, on the othe
ἈπολλῶςApollos10×
what comes after →
ὄνομαname, character, rep
Ἀλεξανδρεύςan Alexandrian
εἰμίI am, exist
ἐν
ἐγώ
δέbut, on the othe
οὐNeg
ἄνθρωποςa man, one of th
τίςIrg
δέbut, on the othe

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

ConcordanceἈπολλῶς · 10× in the New Testament
1 Corinthians Acts Titus
Across the New Testament3 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Clement of Rome Josephus Philo of Alexandria
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Embassy to Gaius 109c. AD 40

λέγεται μὴ μόνον ἰατρὸς ἀλλὰ καὶ μάντις ἀγαθὸς Ἀπόλλων εἶναι, χρησμοῖς προλέγων τὰ μέλλοντα πρὸς ὠφέλειαν ἀνθρώπων, ἵνα μή τις ἐπισκιασθεὶς αὐτῶν περὶ τὸ ἄδηλον ἀπροοράτως καθάπερ τυφλὸς τοῖς ἀβουλήτοις ὡς λυσιτελεστάτοις ἐπιτρέχων ἐπεμπίπτῃ,…

JosephusAgainst Apion 2.162c. AD 75–95

οἱ μὲν γὰρ αὐτῶν τοὺς νόμους ὑποτίθενται, ὁ δέ γε Μίνως ἔλεγεν ὅτι εἰς τὸν Ἀπόλλω καὶ τὸ Δελφικὸν αὐτοῦ μαντεῖον τὰς τῶν νόμων μαντείας ἀνέφερεν, ἤτοι τἀληθὲς οὕτως ἔχειν νομίζοντες ἢ πείσειν ῥᾷον ὑπολαμβάνοντες.

Clement of RomeFirst Clement 47.3c. AD 96

ἐπ’ ἀληθείας πνευματικῶς ἐπέστειλεν ὑμῖν περὶ ἑαυτοῦ τε καὶ Κηφᾶ τε καὶ Ἀπολλώ, διὰ τὸ καὶ τότε προσκλίσεις ὑμᾶς πεποιῆσθαι.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
6th c. AD 2nd c. AD 7th c. AD 4th c. AD 3rd c. AD
11440Philadelphia (Arsinoites)AD 40–AD 68

ἐτῶν λα Ψάμις Ψάμιδος μητρὸς Θερμούθιος ἐτῶν κϛ Ἁρμιῦσις Πνεφερῶτος μητρὸς Τεχώνσιος ἐτῶν μδ Ἀπολλῶς Ἡρακλήου μητρὸς Βεροῦτος ἐτῶν μα Ἡρακλῆς υἱὸς μητρὸς Ταμύσθας ἐτῶν ιε Ἀπολλῶς ἄλλος Ἡρακλήου

P.Oxy. 72 4870OxyrhynchitesAD 122–AD 123

χαίρειν. διάστειλον ἃς ἔχεις μου ἐν θέματι πυροῦ γενήματος … ἔτους Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου Ἀπολλω

P.Oxy. 72 4878OxyrhynchitesAD 135

Ὧρος Παυσίριος διὰ Ἀμμωνίου φίλου Ἀπολλω καὶ Ἁρπαήσει καὶ μετόχοις σιτολόγοις ἄνω τοπαρχίας Μονίμου τόπων χαίρειν. διαστείλατε ἃς ἔχετέ μου

Zenas the lawyer and Apollos earnestly do equip, so that nothing to them may be lacking.
σπουδαίωςspoudaiōs earnestly G4709 Adverb
3× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Titus than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means to do something diligently or with zeal, like when Paul in 2 Timothy 1:17 searched for Timothy with earnestness. It describes a strong effort to accomplish something. Paul looked for Timothy with diligence.
Amplified meaning
with diligence and zeal
Tyndale gloss
diligently
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word σπουδαίως (i.e., *spoudaiōs*) is an adverb meaning 'earnestly' or 'diligently.' It is derived from the adjective σπουδαῖος and covers a range of meanings including 'with haste' and 'zeal.' The New Testament references include Luke 7:4, 2 Timothy 1:17, and Titus 3:13, with a comparative form appearing in Philippians 2:28.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

** σπουδαίως

adv.

(< σπουδαῖος),

[in LXX: Wi 2:6 * ;]

with haste or zeal, i.e. earnestly, zealously, diligently: Lk 7:4, II Ti 1:17, Tit 3:13; compar., -οτέρως, Phl 2:28 (RV, Lft., Weymouth, al., but v. infr.)

hastily, speedily: compar., -οτέρως, Phl 2:28 (Thayer, Zorell, s.v.; ICC, in l., al., but v. supr.).†

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

σπουδαίως, adv. of the preceding; a. hastily, with haste: compar. σπουδαιοτέρως [cf. B. 69 (61); W. § 11, 2c.], Phil. ii. 28 [W. 243 (228)]. b. diligently: 2 Tim. i.17 LT Tr WH;; Tit. iii. 13 ; earnestly, Lk. vii. 4.

Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

σπουδαίως, “‘zealously,’’ ‘‘earnestly’’: PSI VII. 742° (v/vi Α.}.) σπουδαίως μεταδοῦναί por διὰ γρ[αμμάτων Ὁ] τὸ τῆς ὑποθέσεως. The comp’? σπουδαιοτέρως in Phil 278 is to be taken as ἃ superlve ‘‘ with the utmost diligence ’’ in accordance with a common practice in late Greek: cf. Blass Gr. P- 33:

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

σπουδαίως (spoudaiōs) — diligently.

Included with: σπουδ-αῖος, α, ον

(σπουδή) properly in haste, quick, σ. τοὺς πόδας [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—but in ordinary use denoting energy or earnestness:

I. of persons, earnest, serious, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; active, zealous, in canvassing, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

I.2. good, excellent in their several kinds, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to φαῦλος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀκροαταὶ-ότεροι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. αὐλητής, opposed to ἄνθρωπος μοχθηρός, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

I.3. in moral sense, good, opposed to πονηρός, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to φαῦλος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; σπουδαῖον ={ἀγαθον}, [Refs]: generally, of all virtuous objects or qualities, [Refs]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

σπουδαίως

spoudaios

adverb from 4705; earnestly, promptly:--diligently, instantly.

see GREEK for 4705

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

σπουδαίως

Adv

diligently, earnestly

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

σπουδαίως spoudaiōs 4x

earnestly, eagerly, diligently, Lk. 7:4; 2 Tim. 1:17; Tit. 3:13; compar. σπουδαιοτέρως, more earnestly, with special urgency, Phil. 2:28

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Adv — Adverb
adverb — it qualifies the verb, and never changes form.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

ADV ADVerb or adverb and particle combined

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
100%earnestly
earnestly100% · 3×

3 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.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial100%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 3 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
αὐτός
παρακαλέωI summon, entrea
ῬώμηRome
ἐν
ἈπολλῶςApollos
καίand, even, also,
σπουδαίωςearnestly
what comes after →
λέγωI say, speak
ὅτιthat, since, bec
ζητέωI seek, search for,
ἐγώ
προπέμπωI send forward, acco
ἵναin order that, s

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

Concordanceσπουδαίως · 3× in the New Testament
2 Timothy Luke Titus
Across the New Testament3 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus
JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 8.6c. AD 75–95

ἡ δὲ Βερσάβη καὶ διακονήσειν σπουδαίως ὑπέσχετο καὶ καταπράξεσθαι τὸν γάμον διʼ ἀμφότερα, τοῦ τε βασιλέως αὐτῷ χαρίσασθαί τι βουλησομένου καὶ δεησομένης αὐτῆς λιπαρῶς.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 6th c. AD 5th c. AD 1st c. AD 1st c. BC
CdÉ 61 (1986), p. 274- no. 2Mons ClaudianusAD 1–AD 200

α … χι οδυ … ις ἐκεῖ ἐὰν μὴ πέμπῃς· σπουδαίως δὴ τοὺς καμηλίτας μοι πέμψον τῆς ὑδροφορίας.

P. Lond. 3 p. LXVII no. 1228 descr.Hermopolites (?)AD 101–AD 125

Column i Ἡρώδης σπουδαίως ἔχει τὰ περὶ τῶν ἐντολῶν σου ἐπαγρυπνῶν ἕως τούτου καὶ οὐδὲν ἐμπόδιόν ἐστι περὶ

P.Brem. 48Hermopolis ?AD 116

ἀπηρτισμένην ὠνήσασθαι, ἵνα μὴ ἐμπέσωμεν ὕστερον εἰς τοὺς χειροτέχνας. γίνωσκε δέ, ὅτι ἐκ διεραμάτων σπουδαίως κατῆλθον πολλοῦ ναύλου. πρὸ πάντων αὔριον τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιήσω ἐν τῶι Σαραπείωι, ἐπεὶ

Zenas the lawyer and Apollos earnestly do equip, so that nothing to them may be lacking.
πρόπεμψον,propempō do equip, G4311 Verb · aorist · active · imperative · second person · singular
9× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Titus than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
To help someone on their way, like escorting them on a journey, as seen in 1 Corinthians 16:11 and Titus 3:13. This means providing aid or support for travel. It's about assisting someone to get where they need to go.
Amplified meaning
help on their way, provide for
Tyndale gloss
to help on the way
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

προπέμπω is built from the prefix προ- meaning 'before' and πέμπω meaning 'to send.' It covers the idea of sending someone forward, escorting, or aiding in travel. In the New Testament, it appears in verses like 1 Corinthians 16:11 and Titus 3:13, where it refers to accompanying or providing for someone's journey.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

** προ-πέμπω,

[in LXX: I Es 4:47, Jth 10:15, Wi 19:2, I Mac 12:4, II Mac 6:23*;]

to send before, send forth.

to set forward on a journey, escort: c. acc. pers., I Co 16:11, Tit 3:13, III Jo 6; seq. εἰς, Ac 20:38; οὗ, I Co 16:6; ἕως, Ac 21:5; pass., Ac 15:3, Ro 15:24, II Co 1:16.†

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

προ-πέμπω ; impf. προέπεμπον; 1 aor. act. προέπεμψα; 1 aor. pass. προεπέμφθην; fr. Hom. down; 1. tosend before. 2. to send forward, bring on the way, accompany or escort: τινά, 1 Co. xvi. 6, 11, [al. associate these exx. with the group at the close]; with ἐκεῖ (for ἐκεῖσε) added, Ro. xv. 24; eis with an acc. of place, Acts xx. 38; 2Co.i. 16 [here R. V. set forward (see below) ]; ἕως ἔξω τῆς πόλεως, Acts xxi. 5. to set one forward, fit him out with the requisites for his journey: Acts xv. 3 [8]. associate this ex. with the preceding]; Tit. iii. 13; 3 Jn. 6; 1 Mace. xii. 4, ef. 1 Esdr. iv. 47.

Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

προπέμπω, (1) lit. ‘send before,” P Ryl II. 7818 (a.p. 157) ἀπόδεῖσμον ἐπιστολῶν προπεμφθέντα ὑπ᾽ ἐμοῦ, “packet of letters previously sent by me,” οἵ. 35, PSI I. 97% (letter of recommendation—vi/A.D.) προπέμψαι αὐτὰς μετὰ πάσης τιμῆς, and from the inscrr. OG/S 544%? (ii/A.D.) προπέμψαντα [τὰ] παροδεύοντα (στρατεύματα), and Aazbe/ 39° εἴ σε τύχη προὔπεμψε καὶ ἡλικίας ἐπέβησεν. (2) ““5εῖ forward,” ‘‘convoy,” on a journey, as in all its NT occurrences, P Flor II. 206? (iii/A.D.) τοῖς προπέμπουσι καμήλοις οὖσι τὸν ἀριθμὸν ιδ ΠΤολύκαρπον kal ΠΙρωτῦν παράσχες τὰς συνήθεις τροφάς, “to the camels to the number of 14 which form the convoy of Polycarpus and Protys supply the customary…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

προπέμπω (propempō) — to help on the way.

προπέμπω,

aorist προέπεμψα, contraction προὔπεμψα, send before, send forward or forth, πρό μ᾽ ἔπεμψεν ἄναξ [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—middle,[Refs]:—passive, impersonal, προπέπεμπται [Refs 5th c.BC+]

__b with a thing for the object, τινὶ φήμας π. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ξίφος afford, furnish, [Refs] (Lyric poetry); π. ἄχη cause, [Refs]

2. of things, send forth, σποδὸς π. πίονας πλούτου πνοάς [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. conduct, escort, especially a departing traveller, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τινὰ χθονός from the land, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially follow a corpse to the grave, τινὰ ἐπὶ τύμβῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τιμὰς π. θεοῖς carry offerings in procession, [Refs 4th c.BC+] let one piece of bread be attended by one condiment, [Refs 5th…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

προπέμπω

propempo

from 4253 and 3992; to send forward, i.e. escort or aid in

travel:--accompany, bring (forward) on journey (way), conduct forth.

see GREEK for 4253

see GREEK for 3992

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

προπέμπω

v.

I send forward, accompany

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

προπέμπω propempō 9x

to send on before; to accompany or attend out of respect, escort, accompany for a certain distance on setting out on a journey, Acts 15:3; 20:38; 21:5; to furnish with things necessary for a journey, Tit. 3:13; 3 Jn. 6

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

προπέμπω fut. ψω aor1 προέπεμψα contr. προὔπεμψα to send before, send on or forward, Hom., Hdt., attic; πρ. ἄχη to cause them, Soph.

of things, to send forth, Aesch.; ἰοὺς πρ. to shoot forth arrows, Soph.

to conduct, attend, escort, Hdt., attic: — to follow a corpse to the grave, Aesch.; τιμὰς θεοῖς πρ. to carry offerings in procession, id. Aesch.; jocosely, τὸν ἕνα ψωμὸν ἐνὶ ὄψῳ πρ. to let one piece of bread be attended by one condiment, Xen.

to pursue, id. Xen.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-AAM-2S — Verb · aorist · active · imperative · second person · singular
aorist active imperative — a completed action, viewed as a whole.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-AAM-2S Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Aorist Voice: Active Mood: iMperative Person: second Number: Singular

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
22%do equip
do equip22% · 2×having been sent forward11% · 1×they were accompanying11% · 1×while are accompanying11% · 1×be equipped11% · 1×may equip11% · 1×be set forward11% · 1×having set forward11% · 1×

9 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 8 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
verb100%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 9 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
σύ
ὑπό
οὖνtherefore, then
μένDisj
θεωρέωI behold, look at, e
αὐτός
πορεύομαιI travel, journey, g
ἐξέρχομαιI go out, come o
ἐγώ
σύ
προπέμπωdo equip,
what comes after →
δέbut, on the other ha
αὐτός
ὑπό
Article the
ἐγώ
πᾶςall, the whole,
ἐκεῖthere, yonder, thith
ἐάνCond
οὗwhere, whither, when
ἐάνCond

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

Concordanceπροπέμπω · 9× in the New Testament
Acts 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians 3 John Romans Titus
Across the New Testament6 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus
JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.328c. AD 75–95

νείμας οὖν τοὺς σὺν αὑτῷ τοὺς μὲν προύπεμπε, τοὺς δὲ λειπομένους ἆσσον ἐκέλευσεν ἀκολουθεῖν, ὅπως εἰ βιασθεῖεν οἱ προπεμφθέντες ἐπιθεμένου τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ, καταφυγὴν ἔχοιεν τοὺς ἑπομένους.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 5th c. AD 6th c. AD
O.Krok. 1 42KrokodiloAD 109

κουράτορσι πραισιδίων ὁδ … … ἀπὸ Μυσόρμου μετὰ ὄνων ἔρχονται ἀπὸ πραισιδίου εἰς πραισίδιον προπέμψατε … … πρὸς ὑμᾶς. ἐρρῶσθαι ὑμᾶς θέλω. Ἐπειφ ι Ἀρτώρις Πρίσκιλλος κουράτορσι πραισιδίων ὁδοῦ

P.Mil.Vogl. 2 59Tebtynis (Arsinoites)AD 101–AD 200

ἕξ · ἀλλὰ Νεμεσίωνα τὸν ἀδελφὸν παραλαβὼν καὶ αὐτὸς πᾶσιν σφραγισάτω· ἀλλὰ ποίησον αὐτὰ προπεμφθῆναι διὰ τοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς κώμης· ἐπεὶ ἀναγκαῖος φίλος μοι περὶ τούτου ἐπέθετο, καταλείπειν οὐκ

P.Prag.Varcl 2 22Theadelphia (Arsinoites)AD 266

παρὰ Ἀλυπίου. τὰς βόας, ἃς ας ἔπεμψα τραφῆναι παρὰ σοί, ἐπὶ τοῦ βαδιστηλάτου χρῄζω προπεμφθῆναι ποίησον μέχρι τῆς Διονυσιάδος. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι σεσημείωμαι. Ἡρωνίνῳ φροντιστῇ Θρασώ. ἔτους ιγ Μεσορὴ

Zenas the lawyer and Apollos earnestly do equip, so that nothing to them may be lacking.
ἵναhina so that G2443 Conjunction
669× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Titus than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means 'in order that' or 'to', showing purpose or result, as seen in Acts 19:4 and Romans 11:31. It's used to express a goal or outcome. In Ephesians 1:17, it's used to describe a purpose.
Tyndale gloss
in order that/to
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

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.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἵνα,

adverb (poët., Hom., al.),

of place, where, whither.

of circumstance, when.

Conjunction,

prop., final, denoting purpose or end (cl.), that, in order that, usually the first word in the clause, but sometimes (cl. also) preceded by an emphatic word (Ac 19:4, Ro 11:31 (?), Ga 2:10, al.);

c. optat. (so in cl. after historic tenses): after a pres., Eph 1:17 (but WH, mg., subjc.; v. Burton, § 225, Rem., 2);

c. subjc.: after a pres., Mk 4:21, Lk 6:34, Jo 3:15, Ac 2:25,

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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…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

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+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

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

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἵνα

Cj.

in order that, so that

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἵνα hina 663x

that, in order that, Mt. 19:13; Mk. 1:38; Jn. 1:22; 3:15; 17:1; ἵνα μή, that not, lest, Mt. 7:1; in NT equivalent to ὥστε, so that, so as that, Jn. 9:2; also, marking a simple circumstance, the circumstance that, Mt. 10:25; Jn. 4:34; 6:29; 1 Jn. 4:17; 5:3

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

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.

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Conj — Conjunction
conjunction — it joins clauses, and never changes form.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

CONJ CONJunction or conjunctive particle

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

so (co', although the Hebrew might be pointed cewe'; Assyrian Sib'u; Septuagint Segor, Soa; Manetho, Seuechos; Latin Sevechus; Herodotus (ii. 137 ff), Sabakon): In all probability the "Sabaeo" of Herodotus, the Shabaka, who founded the Ethiopian dynasty, the XXVth of Egyptian kings. His date is given as 715-707 BC (Flinders Petrie, History of Egypt, III, 281 ff), but we may suppose that before his accession to the throne he was entitled to be designated king, as being actually regent. To this So, Hoshea, king of Israel, made an appeal for assistance to enable him to throw off the yoke of the Assyrian Shalmaneser IV (2Ki 17:3). But Hoshea's submission to So brought him no advantage, for Shalmaneser came up throughout all the land and laid siege to Samaria. Not long after the fall of Samaria, So ventured upon an eastern campaign, and…

Easton's Bible Dictionary

So

(Nubian, Sabako), an Ethiopian king who brought Egypt under his sway. He was bribed by Hoshea to help him against the Assyrian monarch Shalmaneser (2 Kings 17:4). This was a return to the policy that had been successful in the reign of Jeroboam I.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

"So, king of Egypt," is once mentioned in the Bible -- (2 Kings 17:4) So has been identified by different writers with the first and second kings of the Ethiopian twenty-fifth dynasty, called by Manetho, Sabakon (Shebek) and Sebichos (Shebetek).

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

King of Egypt, made an alliance with Hoshea king of Israel, and promised him assistance; but was unable to prevent Shalmaneser king of Assyria from taking Samaria and subverting the kingdom, B. C. 721, 2Ki 17:4. See PHARAOH.

So is believed to have been the Servetus or Sabaco II of secular history, the second king of the Ethiopian or twenty-fifth dynasty, and the predecessor of Trihakah. A singular fact has been brought to light by the recent explorations at Nineveh, corroborating the Scripture record the more forcibly, because unexpected and direct. The Bible shows that Egypt and Assyria, though remote, were often in conflict during the height of the Assyrian ruins power, and that So was at war with Shalmaneser. After war comes the treaty of peace; and as the Bible prepares us to suppose such treaties were made, the Assyrian ruins…

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
56%that
that56% · 382×so that40% · 271×other renderings4% · 24×

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.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial8%object3%subject3%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 669 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
αὐτός
παρακαλέωI summon, entreaἐπιτιμάωI rebuke, chide,δίδωμιI offer, give
σύ
λαλέωI speak, sayδιάδίδωμιI offer, give
ἐγώ
δίδωμιI offer, giveὑπέρπερί
ἀλλάbut, except
αὐτόςκόσμοςthe world, univeἐγώ
εἰμίI am, exist
τίςIrgἐγώἱκανόςsufficient, wort
ἵναso that669×
what comes after →
μήNeg
Article theτὶςεἰς
Article the
γραφήa writing, passaχαράjoy, gladnessλόγοςa word, speech,
καίand, even, also, nam
Article theσύαὐτός
ἐν
αὐτόςἐγώὅς
εἰμίI am, exist
μετάεἷςoneἅγιοςset apart, holy,

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

Concordanceἵνα · 669× in the New Testament
John Mark 1 Corinthians Luke 2 Corinthians Revelation Matthew Romans Ephesians Hebrews 1 John Acts

Every reference is on the Strong's page.

Across the New Testament26 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

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.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria Josephus The Shepherd of Hermas Ignatius of Antioch The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 15c. AD 40

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…

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.71c. AD 75–95

ἵνα καὶ τῆς πλινθίνης ἀφανισθείσης ὑπὸ τῆς ἐπομβρίας ἡ λιθίνη μείνασα παράσχῃ μαθεῖν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τὰ ἐγγεγραμμένα δηλοῦσα καὶ πλινθίνην ὑπʼ αὐτῶν ἀνατεθῆναι.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.5c. AD 100

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.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. BC 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 6th c. AD
P.Edg. $1Alexandria259 BC–257 BC

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

P.Bour. 11Pathyris89 BC

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

Zenas the lawyer and Apollos earnestly do equip, so that nothing to them may be lacking.
μηδὲνmēdeis nothing G3367 Adjective · accusative · singular · neuter
90× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Titus than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
Means nothing or no one, used in the Bible to emphasize the absence of something, like in Matthew 16:20 where Jesus tells his disciples to tell no one about him.
Tyndale gloss
nothing
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

μηδείς is built from μή (not) and εἷς (one), meaning no one or nothing. It appears frequently in the New Testament, often to emphasize absence or negation, as seen in verses like Matthew 8:4 and Acts 4:17. The lexicons do not present significant disagreement on its usage.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

μηδείς, -δεμία, -δέν

(and -θέν, Ac 27:33, a Hellenistic form; v. Bl., § 6, 7; Thackeray, Gr., 58),

related to οὐδείς as μή to οὐ,

no, none, no one; neut., nothing: Mt 16:20, Mk 5:43 6:8, Lk 3:14, Ac 8:24, Ro 13:8, al.; c. gen., Ac 4:17 24:23; neut. acc., μηδέν, adverbially, in no respect, Ac 10:20 11:12; as acc. obj. after verb, βλάπτειν, Lk 4:35; ὠφελεῖσθαι,

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μηδείς, μηδεμία, μηδέν (and μηθέν, Acts xxvii. 33 LT Tr WH, —a form not infreq. fr. Aristot. on [found as early as B.C. 378, ef. Meisterhans, Gr. d. Att. Inschr. p. 73]; cf. Lob. ad Phryn. p. 181sq.; W. § 5, 1d. 11; [B. 28 (25)]; Kiihner § 187, 1 vol. i. 487 sq.), (fr. μηδέ and εἷς), [fr. Hom. down]; it is used either in connection with a noun, no, none, or absolutely, no one, not one, no man, neut. nothing, and in the same constructions as μή; accordingly a. with an imperative: μηδείς being the person to whom something is forbidden, 1 Co. iii. 18, 21; x. 24; Gal. vi.17; Eph. v. 6; Col. ii. 18; 1 Tim. iv.12; Tit. ii.15; Jas.i.13; 1Jn.iii.7; neut. μηδέν, 50. ἔστω [A. V. have thou nothing to do with etc.], Mt. xxvii. 19; μηδείς in the dat. or the acc. depending on the impv., Ro. xiii. 8; 1 Tim. v. 22; μηδέν (accusative), Lk. iii. 13; ix.3; μ. φοβοῦ, Rev. ii. 10 [here L Tr WH txt. μή]. b.…

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μηδείς. According to Thumb ( 7ε]16᾽1. p. 14) the forms μηθείς and οὐθείς appear in the whole Greek world from iv/B.c., and are in wide use at the beginning of the Christian Era, after which they gradually disappear, without leaving any trace in | B Lond’ 42%* (gic: MGr. Weare prepared, therefore, to find that the forms in θ are more frequent in the LXX than in the NT, where there are only a few examples of οὐθείς (principally in the Lucan writings), and only one of μηθείς, namely Ac 2733 according to NBA. A few exx. of μηθείς from the papyri will suffice—P Petr II. 11(1)® (mid. iii/B.c.) (= Selections, p- 7) εἰ δυνατόν ἐστιν kal μηθέν σε τῶν ἔργων κωλύει, ΚΕ it is possible and none of your work hinders you,’’ Part V.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

μηδείς (mēdeis) — nothing.

μηδείς, μηδεμίᾰ, μηδέν

(i.e. μηδὲ εἷς, μηδὲ μία, μηδὲ ἕν): feminine μηδὲ ἴα or μηδεΐα (or -έϊα) [Refs]:— not one, not even one, nobody (in neuter nothing), once in [Refs 8th c.BC+]

2. μηδὲ εἷς (so written) is found in Attic dialect Inscrr., as [Refs]not even one, μηδὲ ἕν [Refs 5th c.BC+]: frequently with an intervening Particle or preposition, μηδ᾽ ἂν ἕνα [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μηδ᾽ ὑφ᾽ ἑνός, μηδ᾽ ὑπὸ μιᾶς, [Refs]

II. nobody, naught, good for naught, κἄμ᾽ ἴσον τῷ μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μηδέν or τὸ μηδέν as substantive, naught, nothing, κεἰ τὸ μ. ἐξερῶ [Refs]; μ. λέγειν to say what is naught, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of persons, τὸ μ. a good-for-nothing, τὸ μ. εἶναι, of a eunuch, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἧττον αὐτοῖς ἔνι ἢ τὸ μ., i.e. it is a mere…

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Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

μηδείς, μηδεμία, μηδέν

Adj

no one, nothing

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

μηδείς mēdeis 90x

not one, none, no one, Mt. 8:4

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

μηδείς i. e. μηδὲ εἷς, μηδὲ μία, μηδὲ ἕν and not one, related to οὐδείς as μή to οὐ, Il., etc.; —rare in Pl., Xen.

μηδὲ εἷς, which (so written) is never elided even in attic, retained the first emphatic sense not even one, and often had a Particle between, as μηδ᾽ ἂν εἷς, or a prep., μηδ᾽ ἐξ ἑνός, μηδὲ περὶ ἑνός etc., Plat.

nobody, naught, good for naught, ὁ μηδείς Soph.; pl., οὐ γὰρ ἠξίου τοὺς μηδένας id. Soph.:— so, μηδέν or τὸ μηδέν often as Subst., naught, nothing, id. Soph.; μηδὲν λέγειν to say what is naught, Xen.; τοῦ μηδενὸς ἄξιος Hdt.; ἐς τὸ μηδὲν ἥκειν Eur.;—and of persons, τὸ μηδέν a good for naught, τὸ μηδὲν εἶναι of an eunuch, Hdt.; τὸ μ. ὄντας Soph.

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Adj-ASN-N — Adjective · accusative · singular · neuter
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular neuter.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

A-ASN-N Part of Speech: Adjective Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Neuter Negative

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

nuth'-ing (lo', lo' @me'umah, etc.; medeis, oudeis): "Nothing" is represented by various words and phrases, often with lo', which is properly a substantive with the meaning of "nothing." Most frequently we have lo' me'umah, "not anything" (Ge 40:15; Jud 14:6).

Other forms are lo' dhabhar, "not anything"; (Ge 19:8); lo'khol, "not any(thing)" (Ge 11:6; Pr 13:7); la' (Aramaic), "no," "nothing" (Da 4:35, "as nothing"); 'ephec, "end," "cessation" (Isa 34:12); bilti, "without," "save," "not" (

Across the New Testament22 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 21 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.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Ignatius of Antioch Clement of Rome
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 21c. AD 40

οὗ χάριν τῆς ἀρίστης αὑτοῦ φύσεως οὐκ ἐφθόνησεν οὐσίᾳ μηδὲν ἐξ αὑτῆς ἐχούσῃ καλόν, δυναμένῃ δὲ πάντα γίνεσθαι.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.11c. AD 75–95

ὁ δὲ τῶν παρʼ ἡμῖν ἀρχιερέων οὐδενὸς ἀρετῇ δεύτερος Ἐλεάζαρος τῷ προειρημένῳ βασιλεῖ ταύτης ἀπολαῦσαι τῆς ὠφελείας οὐκ ἐφθόνησε πάντως ἀντειπὼν ἄν, εἰ μὴ πάτριον ἦν ἡμῖν τὸ μηδὲν ἔχειν τῶν καλῶν ἀπόρρητον.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 21.8c. AD 100

ἕως ἔτι τὸ καλὸν σκεῦός ἐστιν μεθ̓ ὑμῶν, μὴ ἐλλείπητε μηδενὶ ἑαυτῶν, ἀλλὰ συνεχῶς ἐκζητεῖτε ταῦτα καὶ ἀναπληροῦτε πᾶσαν ἐντολήν: ἔστιν γὰρ ἄξια.

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BGU 6 1260Pathyris102 BC

ἐπελθὼν ἐπίτιμον παραχρῆμα χαλκοῦ τάλαντα ἓξ καὶ ἱερὰς βασιλεῦσι ἀργυρίου ἐπισήμου δραχμὰς ρκ καὶ μηθὲν ἧσσον κύριον εἶναι τὰ προγεγραμμένα. Ἑρμίας ὁ παρὰ Πανίσκου κεχρημάτικα

P.Grenf. 2 33Pathyris101 BC

τρισχιλίων τριακοσίων · καὶ μὴ ἐπελεύσεσθαι μήτʼ αὐτὸν Ψενενοῦπιν ἐπὶ τὸν Ἁρσιῆσιν μήτʼ ἄλλον μηδένα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ περὶ τοῦ διασαφουμένου μέρους γῆς τρόπῳ μηδενί. εἰ δὲ μή, ἀποτεισάτω Ἁρσιήσει

P.Adl. 14Pathyris101 BC

ἐνλιπὸν μοι ἄπρατον γῆς ἀρουρῶν γ, καὶ μὴ ἐπελεύσεσθαι μήτʼ αὐτὸν Κολλούθην μήδʼ ἄλλον μηδένα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν Ὧρον μήδʼ ἐπʼ ἄλλον μηδένα τῶν παρʼ αὐτοῦ περὶ τῶν

Zenas the lawyer and Apollos earnestly do equip, so that nothing to them may be lacking.
αὐτοῖςautos to them G846 Personal pronoun · dative · plural · masculine
5,550× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
rarer in Titus than elsewhere in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This pronoun refers to a person or thing, like 'he', 'she', or 'it'. It is used in the Bible to emphasize a person or thing, like in John 2:25 where it says 'he himself knew'.
Tyndale gloss
it/s/he
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

αὐτός is a pronoun meaning 'self' or 'the same,' used to emphasize distinction or opposition. It can function as a reflexive pronoun and appears frequently in the New Testament, often in contexts that highlight contrast or identity, such as in Luke 5:37 and John 2:25. The entries indicate that it can also be used in various grammatical constructions, including with articles to denote sameness.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

αὐτός, -ή, -ό,

determinative pron., in late Gk. much more freq. than in cl. (WM, 178 f.; Jannaris, HGG, §1399).

Emphatic (so always in nom. exc. when preceded by the art., v. infr., iii);

self (ipse), expressing opposition, distinction, exclusion, etc., αὐ. ἐκχυθήσεται, Lk 5:37; αὐ. ἐγινώσκεν, Jo 2:25; αὐ. ὑμεῖς, Jo 3:28; καὶ αὐ. ἐγώ, Ro 15:14; αὐ. Ἰησοῦς, Jo 2:24; αὐ. καὶ οἱ μετ’ αὐτοῦ, Mk 2:25; ὑμεῖς αὐ., Mk 6:31; esp. (as freq in cl.) αὐ. ὁ, Mt 3:4, Mk 6:17, Jo 16:27, I Th 3:11, al.; in late Gk., sometimes…

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αὐτός, -7, -d, pron. (“derived from the particle αὖ with the added force of a demonstrative pronoun. In itself it signifies nothing more than again, applied to what has either been previously mentioned or, when the whole discourse is looked at, must necessarily be .upplied.” Klotz ad Devar. ii. p. 219; [see Vaniéek p. 268]). It is used by the bibl. writ. both of the O. T. and of the N. T. far more frequently than the other pronouns; and in this very frequent and almost inordinate use of it, they deviate greatly from prof. auth.; cf. B. § 127, 9. [On classic usage ef. Hermann, Opusce. i. 308 sqq., of which dissertation a summary is given in his edition of Viger pp- 732-736.] I. self, as used (in all persons, genders, numbers) to distinguish a person or thing from or contrast it with another, or to give him (it) emphatic prominence. ik When used to express Opposition or Distinction, it is…

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αὐτός. The weakening of the old distinction between αὐτὸς 6 and ὁ αὐτός, especially in Luke, is noted in Proleg. p. 91, and paralleled from Hellenistic. We may add (cf. Linleitung p. 145f.) Sy// 8071 (ii/A.D.) αὐταῖς ταῖς ἡμέραις, where Dittenberger remarks ‘‘expectaveris ταῖς αὐταῖς," OG/S 383! (Antiochus of Commagene, i/8.c.) τὴν αὐτήν τε κρίσιν, for which Ditt. desiderates ταύτην τὴν κρίσιν, P Iib I. 30° (B.c. 265) αὐτὸς Ὧρος “the said H.,’’ P Lille I. 238 (B.C, 221) οὗ μ[ισ]θωτὴς Ἡρώδ[ης] ὁ αὐτός “ce méme L.,”’ P Oxy VI. 892% (A.D. 338) τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως, 26. VIII. 1105 (A.D. 254) τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀμφοδογραμματέως “the said a.’’: all these seem to be practically identical, with αὐτός differing little from ἐκεῖνος. The combination αὐτὸ τοῦτο may be illustrated by P Grenf I. 114 (literary, ii/B.c.) “ for this reason ” (Ed.) as in 2 Pet 1°, P Ryl 11. 77°9 (a.p. 192) καὶ αὐτὰ ταῦτα ἀσφαλίσομαι…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

αὐτός (autos) — it/s/he.

αὐτός

(Cretan dialect ἀϝτός [Refs] (also αὐτόν[Refs], reflexive pronoun, self:—in oblique cases used for the personal pronoun, him, her, it:—with Article, ὁ αὐτός, ἡ αὐτή, τὸ αὐτό (also ταὐτόν), etc., the very one, the same.

I. self, myself, thyself, etc., accusative to the person of the Verb: frequently joined with ἐγώ, σύ, etc. (see. below 10),

I.1. one's true self, the soul, not the body, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; reversely, body, not soul, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; oneself, as opposed to others who are less prominent, as king to subject, [Refs]; man to wife and children, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; warrior to horses, [Refs 8th c.BC+], or to weapons, [Refs]; shepherd to herd, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; seamen to ships, [Refs]: generally, whole to parts,[Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, the Master, as in the [Refs 4th c.BC+]…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

αὐτός

autos

from the particle au (perhaps akin to the base of 109 through the idea

of a baffling wind) (backward); the reflexive pronoun self, used

(alone or in the comparative 1438) of the third person , and (with the

proper personal pronoun) of the other persons:--her, it(-self), one,

the other, (mine) own, said, (self-), the) same, ((him-, my-, thy-

)self, (your-)selves, she, that, their(-s), them(-selves), there(-at,

- by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with), they, (these) things, this (man),

those, together, very, which. Compare 848.

see GREEK for 109

see GREEK for 1438

see GREEK for 848

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

αὐτός, αὐτή, αὐτό

Pers.pr.

he, she, it, they, them, same

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

αὐτός autos 5x

self, very; alone, Mk. 6:31; 2 Cor. 12:13; of one’s self, of one’s own motion, Jn. 16:27; used also in the oblique cases independently as a personal pron. of the third person; ὁ αὐτός, the same; unchangeable, Heb. 1:12; κατὰ τὸ αὐτό, at the same time, together, Acts 14:1; ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό, in one and the same place, Mt. 22:34; at the same time, together, Acts 3:1

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

αὐτός self, Lat. ipse:— in the oblique cases simply for the personal Pron., him, her, it:— with the Artic. ὁ αὐτός, ἡ αὐτή, τὸ αὐτό (or ταὐτόν), etc., the very one, the same.

self, myself, thyself, etc., acc. to the person of the Verb., Hom., etc.:

oneself, one's true self, the soul, not the body, Od.; or opp. to others, as king to subjects, parent to children, man to wife, etc., Hom.; hence absol. for the master, τίς οὗτος;—Αὐτός, i. e. Socrates, Ar.; similarly in neut. αὐτὸ δείξει the result will shew, Eur.

of oneself, of one's own accord, Lat. sponte, Hom., Soph.

by oneself, alone, αὐτός περ ἐών although alone, Il.; αὐτοί ἐσμεν we are by ourselves, i. e. among friends, Ar.

in Plat., τὸ δίκαιον αὐτό right in itself, the idea of right, etc.; cf. αὐτοάνθρωπος.

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Pron-DPM — Personal pronoun · dative · plural · masculine
dative — to, for, with — the one it is done to or by.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

P-DPM Part of Speech: Personal pronoun Case: Dative Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
52%him
him52% · 3025×them25% · 1488×it6% · 323×her4% · 250×other renderings10% · 587×other renderings3% · 188×

5,861 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 92 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
object33%adverbial28%indirect object19%subject18%predicate3%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 5,561 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
λέγωI say, speak
καίand, even, also,δέbut, on the otheἸησοῦςJesus
πρός
λέγωI say, speakἔρχομαιI come, goδέbut, on the othe
ἐν
Article theαὐτόςεὑρίσκωI find
δέbut, on the other ha
λέγωI say, speakοὗτοςὁράωI see, look upon
καίand, even, also, nam
αὐτόςσύθεόςGod, a god
αὐτόςto them5550×
what comes after →
Article the
ἸησοῦςJesusμαθητήςa learner, disciθεόςGod, a god
καίand, even, also, nam
Article theλέγωI say, speakαὐτός
λέγωI say, speak
αὐτόςτίςIrgκύριοςlord, Lord, mast
ἐν
Article theαὐτόςὅς
εἰς
Article theδικαιοσύνηjustice, justnesἹεροσόλυμαJerusalem

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

Concordanceαὐτός · 5,550× in the New Testament
Luke Matthew John Mark Acts Revelation Romans Hebrews 1 John 1 Corinthians Ephesians 2 Corinthians

19 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The company it keepswords that stand beside it more often than chance
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 1c. AD 40

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.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.argc. AD 75–95

περὶ τοῦ γένους Ἀδάμου καὶ τῶν ἀπ' αὐτοῦ δέκα γενεῶν τῶν μέχρι τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.4c. AD 100

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’…

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P.Stras. 2 89Pathyris100 BC

Πακοίβιος ἱερεὺς Σούχου καὶ Ἀφροδίτης ὡς ἐτῶν μ εὐμεγέθης μελίχρως μακροπρόσωπος εὐθύριν τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν αὐτῷ μερίδα γῆς σιτοφόρου ἐν τῷ περὶ Παθῦρειν πεδίωι σφραγίδων τεσσάρων , ἣν καὶ αὐτὸς

P.Adl. 11Pathyris99 BC

1 ἔτους 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

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

ὡς ἐτῶν νε μέσος ἢ ἐλάσσων μελίχρως μακροπρόσωπος εὐθύριν ὑπόσκνιφος, καὶ Πετεαρσοῆρις Σχώτου τῶν αὐτῶν ἱερέων ὡς ἐτῶν ν μέσος ἢ ἐλασσων μελίχρως μακροπρόσωπος εὐθύριν ὑπόσκνιφος, ἀπὸ τοῦ ὑπάρχοντος

Zenas the lawyer and Apollos earnestly do equip, so that nothing to them may be lacking.
λείπῃ.leipō may be lacking. G3007 Verb · present · active · subjunctive · third person · singular
6× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Titus than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This verb means to lack or be without something, like in James 1:4 where it says to lack nothing. It can also mean to leave something behind.
Amplified meaning
lack nothing, be in need of nothing, for their journey, to fulfill their mission
Tyndale gloss
to lack
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

λείπω, transliterated as leipo, is a verb meaning to leave or forsake, and can also imply being left behind or lacking something. It appears in various contexts, including the New Testament, where it is used to describe being wanting or deficient (e.g., James 1:4, 5; Luke 18:22). The word is built from a root that conveys the idea of absence or deficiency, and its usage spans both active and passive forms.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

λείπω,

[in LXX: Jb 4:11, Pr 19:1 (4) (פּרד), al.;]

trans., to leave, leave behind; pass., to be left behind, to lack seq. prep. (as more usual in cl.), ἐν, Ja 1:4; c. gen. rei, Ja 1:5 2:15.

Intrans., to be gone, to be wanting: c. dat. pers., Lk 18:22, Tit 3:13; τὰ λείποντα, Tit 1:5 (cf. ἀπο-, δια-, ἐκ-, ἐπι-, κατα-, ἐν-κατα-, περι-, ὑπο-λείπω).†

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

λείπω; [2 aor. subj. 3 pers. sing. Airy, Tit. iii. 13 TWH mrg.; pres. pass. λείπομαι; fr. Hom. down]; 1. trans. to leave, leave behind, forsake; pass. to be left behind (prop. by one’s rival in a race, hence), a. to lag, be inferior: ἐν μηδενί, Jas. i. 4 (Hdt. 7, 8, 1); [al. associate this ex. with the two under b.]. b. to be destitute of, to lack: with gen. of the thing, Jas. i. 5; ii. 15, (Soph., Plat., al.). 2. intrans. to be wanting ΟἹ absent, to fail: λείπει τί τινι, LK. xviii. 22; Tit. iii. 13, (Polyb. 10, 18, 8; al.); τὰ λείποντα, the things that remain [so Justin Mart. apol. 1, 52, ef. 32; but al. are wanting], Tit. i. 5. [Comp.: ἀπο-, δια-, éx-, ἐπι-, κατα-, ἐν-κατα-, Tept-, ὑπο-λείπω.]

Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

λείπω. P Amh IT. 3613 (c, B.c. 135) λείπω τε τὴν ὑπερβολήν, “1 do not exaggerate” (Edd.), Pretsigke 276 τάδ᾽ ἔλυπον ᾿Ατταλάχοις Ἡρακλῆ. As showing that the distinction between the active and the middle of the verb was carefully preserved, it may be noted that “‘ the invariable expression in Anatolian epigraphy, even of the humblest class expressed in the worst Greek, is λείπειν βίον, not λείπεσθαι" (W. M. Ramsay Exp VII. vi. p. 548f.). For the act. in the intrans. sense of “am lacking,” as in Lk 182%, we may cite Epict. ii. 14. 19 τί σοι λείπει ; and for the middle construed with ἐν, as in Jas 14, cf. Prezsigke 620° (B.C. 97-96) where a temple that has received other honours is declared to be wanting in the right of asylum—Actrrec Oar δὲ ἐν τῷ μὴ εἶναι ἄσυλον. The verb is a λέγε. techn. in accounts to denote a deficiency, e.g. P Par 5911 (B.c. 160) (= Witkowski®, p. 76) λ(είπεται)…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

λείπω (leipō) — to lack.

λείπω,

imperfect ἔλειπον [Refs 8th c.BC+]: future λείψω [Refs]aorist 1 ἔλειψα, participle λείψας [Refs 5th c.BC+]; uncompounded, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; also in later Poets, [Refs 3rd c.AD+], etc.: but correct writers normally use aorist 2 ἔλῐπον [Refs 8th c.BC+], etc.: perfect λέλοιπα [Refs 8th c.BC+]pluperfect ἐλελοίπειν (Attic dialect -η) [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, in properly sense chiefly in compounds: aorist 2 ἐλιπόμην [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, future middle in passive sense λείψομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+]; also λειφθήσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist ἐλείφθην, λείφθην [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. plural ἔλειφθεν [Refs]: perfect λέλειμμαι [Refs 8th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐλελείμμην [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect λέλειπτο [Refs]: Epic dialect aorist also ἔλειπτο [Refs 3rd…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

λείπω

leipo

a primary verb; to leave, i.e. (intransitively or passively) to fail

or be absent:--be destitute (wanting), lack.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

λείπω

v.

I am wanting, am left behind

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

λείπω leipō 6x

trans. to leave, forsake; pass. to be left, deserted; by impl. to be destitute of, deficient in, Jas. 1:4, 5; 2:15; intrans. to fail, be wanting, be deficient, Lk. 18:22; Tit. 1:5; 3:13*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

λείπω from Root ΛΙΠ trans.,

to leave, quit, Hom., etc.

to leave behind, leave at home, id. Hom., etc.; esp. of dying men, to leave (as a legacy), Il., etc.:— so in Mid. to leave behind one, as a memorial, Hdt., etc.

to leave, forsake, abandon, desert, leave in the lurch, Il., etc.; λ. ἐράνους to fail in paying . . , Dem.; so, λ. δασμόν, φοράν Xen.:—conversely, λίπον ἰοὶ ἄνακτα the arrows failed him, Od.

intr. to be gone, to be wanting, cease, be missing, Lat. deficio, Soph., Eur., etc.

Pass. to be left, left behind, Hom., etc.

to remain, remain over and above, Il., Hdt., etc.

to remain alive, Od.

c. gen. to be left without, to be forsaken of, σοῦ λελειμμένη Soph.;— but, λελειμμένος δορός left by the spear, i. e. not slain, Aesch.

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-PAS-3S — Verb · present · active · subjunctive · third person · singular
present active subjunctive — an action in progress.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-PAS-3S Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Present Voice: Active Mood: Subjunctive Person: third Number: Singular

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
67%lacking
lacking67% · 4×may be lacking17% · 1×lacks17% · 1×

6 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 3 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
verb100%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 6 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
σύ
εἷςoneτὶς
Article the
ἵναin order that, s
αὐτός
μηδείςno one, nothing
μηδείςno one, nothing
ἐν
καίand, even, also, nam
ὑπάρχωI am, exist, am
λείπωmay be lacking.
what comes after →
πᾶςall, the whole, ever
ὅσος
ἐπιδιορθόωI put in order
καίand, even, also,
σοφίαwisdom
αἰτέωI ask, request,
Article the
ἐφήμεροςfor the day, dai

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

Concordanceλείπω · 6× in the New Testament
James Titus Luke
Across the New Testament3 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The company it keepswords that stand beside it more often than chance
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria Ignatius of Antioch The Shepherd of Hermas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Unchangeableness of God 34c. AD 40

τὰ μὲν δὴ μὴ λείποντα τὴν τάξιν τῆς πειθαρχίας ἕνεκα ἐπαινεῖ, τὰ δὲ μεθιστάμενα τῇ κατὰ λιποτακτῶν ὡρισμένῃ μετέρχεται δίκῃ.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 4.117c. AD 75–95

τοσοῦτον ὑμῖν ἀνδρείας τὸ περιὸν ἐκ θεοῦ προνοίας ἀνῄρηται, ᾧ καὶ τὰ περιττὰ μειοῦν ἰσχὺς καὶ τὰ λείποντα διδόναι.

The Shepherd of HermasThe Shepherd of Hermas 3.1.9c. AD 140

ὁ εἰς τὰ δεξιὰ μέρη τόπος ἄλλων ἐστίν, τῶν ἤδη εὐαρεστηκότων τῷ θεῷ καὶ παθόντων εἵνεκα τοῦ ὀνόματος: σοὶ δὲ πολλὰ λείπει ἵνα μετ̓ αὐτῶν καθίσῃς: ἀλλὰ ὡς μένεις τῇ ἁπλότητί σου, μεῖνον, καὶ καθιῇ μετ̓ αὐτῶν καὶ ὅσοι ἐὰν ἐργάσωνται τὰ ἐκείνων ἔργα…

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 6th c. AD 3rd c. AD 2nd c. BC 3rd c. BC
P.Giss. 1 77Apollonopolites HeptakomiasAD 113–AD 120

πάντας τοὺς σούς. ὅτε δὲ παρεγένοντο ἐντάδε ἡμῖν ο … ηωτ … ἐμαυτῆς, ὅτε λείπω τ … της γέγονε, τότε ἔγνων, ὅτι ἔπεμψάς μοι τὸν κιθῶναν. λείαν δέ σοι

P.Mert. 2 73OxyrhynchosAD 163–AD 164

ἔπειτα κατ … χωρεῖ εἰς τὸν τῆς προφητείας λόγον· ὁμοίως ἀλευροποιῶν … τὰ λείποντα πυροῦ ἀρταβ πϛ γίνονται ἀρτάβαι καὶ τῶν … ἀρτοκόπων Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως ἀνεκτ … ρ

P.Iand. 6 94AD 176–AD 225

μεγάλων. καλῶς δὲ ποιήσεις ἀπαιτήσας Συρᾶν τὸν γναφέα εἴκοσι τέσσαρας δραχμὰς κδ καὶ τὰ λείποντα ε δραχμὰς εἰς συνπλήρωσιν δραχμῶν ρκ· καὶ τὸν Ταννοῦν ἀπαίτησον δραχμὰς … καὶ γενοῦ

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