Quick Definition
αἷμα, ατος, τό n.n. blood
Strong's Definition
of uncertain derivation; blood, literally (of men or animals), figuratively (the juice of grapes) or specially (the atoning blood of Christ); by implication, bloodshed, also kindred
KJV Usage: blood
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, n. | -τος | αἱματεκχυσία · αἱμορροέω
8.64 · Body, Body Parts, and Body Products · Parts of the Body
blood red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins of humans and animals In MRK 5:25 it may be important to use a special term for blood, since this passage is a reference to the hemorrhaging of menstruation.
In JHN 19:34 (ἐξῆλθεν εὐθὺς αἷμα καὶ ὕδωρ ‘then blood and water came out’) it may be necessary to use a term which can refer to the lymph fluid rather than to water itself; otherwise the reader might understand the water as being urine (with the spear having pierced the bladder) or even possibly water that Jesus had presumably drunk and was still in his stomach. The real reference of ὕδωρ in JHN 19:34 is to the lymph fluid and not to water as such. It is simply a colorless fluid which was mixed with blood.
In REV 8:8 (καὶ ἐγένετο τὸ τρίτον τῆς θαλάσσης αἷμα ‘and a third of the sea became blood’) and REV 11:6 (καὶ ἐξουσίαν ἔχουσιν ἐπὶ τῶν ὑδάτων στρέφειν αὐτὰ εἰς αἷμα ‘and they had power over the waters to turn them into blood’) the reference may not be to blood as a substance but to the blood-like color of the objects in question.
MRK 5:25 · LUK 11:51 · LUK 11:51 · LUK 13:1 · LUK 22:44 · JHN 1:13 · JHN 6:53 · JHN 6:54 · JHN 6:55 · JHN 6:56 · JHN 19:34 · ACT 1:19 · ACT 2:19 · ACT 2:20 · ACT 15:20 · ACT 15:29 · ACT 21:25 · 1CO 10:16 · 1CO 11:25 · 1CO 11:27 · HEB 2:14 · HEB 9:7 · HEB 9:12 · HEB 9:12 · HEB 9:13 · HEB 9:14 · HEB 9:18 · HEB 9:19 · HEB 9:20 · HEB 9:21 · HEB 9:22 · HEB 9:25 · HEB 10:4 · HEB 10:19 · HEB 10:29 · HEB 11:28 · HEB 12:4 · HEB 12:24 · HEB 13:11 · HEB 13:12 · HEB 13:20 · 1PE 1:2 · 1PE 1:19 · 1JN 5:6 · 1JN 5:8 · REV 6:12 · REV 7:14 · REV 8:7 · REV 8:8 · REV 11:6 · REV 12:11 · REV 14:20 · REV 16:3 · REV 16:4 · REV 16:6 · REV 16:6 · REV 17:6 · REV 17:6 · REV 18:24 · REV 19:13
23.107 · Physiological Processes and States · Live, Die
death, violent death (a figurative extension of meaning of αἷμα[a] ‘blood,’ 8.64) the death of a person, generally as the result of violence or execution It is possible to interpret αἷμα in ROM 5:9 (δικαιωθέντες νῦν ἐν τῷ αἵματι αὐτοῦ ‘by his death we are put right with God’) as primarily a reference to physiological death. But in such contexts in which αἷμα is used in speaking of the death of Christ, there is no doubt an additional component derived from the occurrence of αἷμα in contexts speaking of atoning sacrifice. Therefore, one may analyze the meaning of αἷμα in such contexts as meaning ‘sacrificial death’ and not merely physiological death. In ROM 5:9 and similar contexts, a number of translators have preferred to preserve an often recurring phrase such as ‘the shedding of his blood.’ However, in English this can be somewhat ambiguous in that ‘the shedding of blood’ normally refers to the killing of someone else and not to experiencing death. See also 23.112.
MAT 23:35 · MAT 23:35 · MAT 27:4 · MAT 27:25 · ACT 5:28 · ACT 18:6 · ACT 20:26 · ACT 20:28 · ROM 3:25 · ROM 5:9 · EPH 1:7 · EPH 2:13 · COL 1:20 · HEB 10:19 · HEB 12:4 · 1PE 1:19 · 1JN 1:7 · 1JN 5:6 · REV 1:5 · REV 5:9
20.83 · Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill · Kill
to kill, killing, to commit murder (a figurative extension of meaning of αἷμα[a] ‘blood,’ 8.64) to deprive a person of life by violent means
MAT 23:30 · MAT 27:6 · MAT 27:8 · MAT 27:24 · REV 6:10 · REV 19:2
20.84 · Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill · Kill
Collocation: αἷμα ἐκχέω · αἷμα ἐκχύννω
to murder, to kill (an idiom, literally: to pour out blood) to cause the death of someone by violent means The phrase πᾶν αἷμα δίκαιον ἐκχυννόμενον in MAT 23:35 may be literally translated as ‘all innocent blood that is poured out.’
23.112 · Physiological Processes and States · Live, Die
Collocation: ἐκχύννεται τὸ αἷμα
to die as a sacrifice, sacrificial death (an idiom, literally: the blood pours out) to die, with the implication of a sacrificial purpose The relations between the various elements in this clause in MAT 26:28 must in some instances be made somewhat more specific, for example, ‘by my dying, I am like a sacrifice for many for the purpose of their sins being forgiven.’ See also 23.107.
23.182 · Physiological Processes and States · Sickness, Disease, Weakness
Collocation: πηγὴ αἵματος · ῥύσις αἵματος
loss of blood, menstrual flow, bleeding (set phrases, literally: fountain of blood, and: flow of blood, respectively) the loss of blood through menstrual bleeding
9.14 · People · Human Beings
Collocation: σὰρξ καὶ αἷμα
person, human being (an idiom, literally: flesh and blood) a human being in contrast with a divine being
9.15 · People · Human Beings
Collocation: κοινωνέω αἵματος καὶ σαρκός
to be a person, to be a physical being (an idiom, literally: to share blood and flesh) to have the characteristics and nature of a human being
1 The expressions in 23.181 and 23.182 all refer to a menstrual flow of blood, but the phrases πηγὴ αἵματος and ῥύσις αἵματος seem to be restricted primarily to this meaning, while αἱμορροέω in non-biblical contexts means simply to suffer a loss of blood or to bleed, but it may, of course, refer to menstrual bleeding. Because of the wider range of reference in αἱμορροέω, this term has been listed separately.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
αἷμα, -ros, τό, blood, whether of men or of animals; 1. a. simply and generally: Jn. xix. 34; Rev. viii. 7 56. ; xi. 6; xvi. 3 sq. 6” (on which passages cf. Ex. vii. 20 544.) ; xix. 13; ῥύσις αἵματος, Mk. v. 25, [(πηγὴ αἷμ. 29)]; Lk. viii. 43 sq.; θρόμβοι αἵματος, Lk. xxii. 44 [L br. WH reject the pass.]. So also in passages where the eating of blood (and of bloody flesh) is forbidden, Acts xv. 20, 29; xxi. 25; cf. Lev. iii. 17; vil. 16 (26); xvii. 10; see Knobel on Ley. vii. 26 sq.; [Kalisch on Lev., Preliminary Essay ὃ 1]; Riickert, Abendmahl, p. 94. ὍὌ. As it was anciently believed that the blood is the seat of the life (Lev. xvii. 11; [cf. Delitzsch, Bibl. Psychol. pp. 238-247 (Eng. trans. p. 281 sqq-)]), the phrase σὰρξ x. αἷμα (D7) 3, a common phrase in Rabbinical writers), or in inverse order αἷμα x. σάρξ, denotes man’s living body compounded of flesh and blood, 1 Co. xv. 50; Heb. ii. 14, and so hints at the contrast between man and God (or even the more exalted creatures, Eph. vi. 12) as to suggest his feebleness, Eph. vi. 12 (Sir. xiv. 18), which is conspicuous as respects the knowledge of divine things, Gal. 1. 16: Mt. xvi.17. ο. Since the first germs of animal life are thought to be in the blood (Sap. vii. 2; Eustath. ad Il. 6, 211 (ii. 104, 2) τὸ δὲ αἵματος ἀντὶ τοῦ σπέρματός φασιν οἱ σοφοὶ, as τοῦ σπέρματος ὕλην τὸ αἷμα ἔχοντος), the word serves to denote generation and origin (in the classics also) : Jn. i. 13 (on the plur. ef. W.177 (166)); Acts xvii. 26 [R G]. da. It is used of those things which by their redness resemble blood : ai. σταφυλῆς the juice of the grape [
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
αἱμα haima 97x
blood; of the color of blood; bloodshed; blood-guiltiness; natural descent
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
αἷμα, ατος, τό,
[in LXX for דָּם;]
blood. In the ordinary sense: Mk 5:25, Lk 8:43, 44 22:44, Jo 19:34, Ac 15:20, 29 21:25, Re 8:7, 8 11:6 16:3, 4, 6 19:13.
In special senses: of generation, origin, kinship (cl.): Jo 1:13 (v. MM, VGT, s.v.);
as in OT (AR on Eph, 6:12), in the phrase σάρξ καὶ αἷ. (αἷ. κ. σ.), to indicate human nature as opp. to God and created spirits: Mt 16:17, I Co 15:50, Ga 1:16, Eph 6:12, He 2:14;
of things in colour resembling blood: Ac 2:19, 20, Re 6:12 14:18-20.
of bloodshed, a bloody death (cl.): Mt 23:30, 35 27:4, 6, 8, 24, 25, Lk 11:50, 51 13:1, Ac 1:19 5:28 18:6 20:26 22:20, He 12:4, Re 6:10 17:6 18:24 19:2 ; αἷ. ἐκχέειν (Deiss., LAE, 428; MM, VGT, s.v., αἷ.), Ro 3:15, Re 16:6;
of sacrificial blood, as an expiation: He 9:7, 12, 13, 18-22, 25 10:4 11:28 13:11; of the blood of Christ, Mt 26:28, Mk 14:24, Lk 22:20, Jo 6:53, 54, 56, Ac 20:28, Ro 3:25 5:9, I Co 10:16 11:25, 27, Eph 1:7 2:13, Col 1:20, He 9:12, 14 10:19, 29 12:24 13:20, I Pe 1:2, 19, I Jo 1:7 (cf. 5:6, 8), Re 1:5 5:9 7:14 12:11. (Cremer, 69 f., 612 f.)†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
αἷμα. An interesting parallel to the common Biblical phrase αἷμα ἐκχέω, especially as it appears in Deut 19’ καὶ οὐκ ἐκχυθήσεται αἷμα ἀναίτιον, is afforded by an inscription found on a tombstone at Rheneia, containing a Jewish ‘‘prayer for vengeance,” Sy// 816°* (i/A.D.) ἐγχέαντας αὐτῆς τὸ ἀναίτιον αἷμα ἀδίκως : see the full discussion in Deissmann 2.42 p. 4231. For the use of αἷμα, as in Jn 11", cf. P Lips I. 28! (a.p. 381) mp[d]s τὸ εἶναί cov vilo]y γνήσιον καὶ πρωτότοκον ὡς ἐξ ἰδίου αἵματος γεννηθέντα σοι. In P Leid C (verso) 119 (p. 118 —B.c. 161) two men appear in a dream saying Πτολεμαῖος, λαβὲ to[is] χαλκοὺς τοῦ αἵματος : they count out a purseful and say to one of the Twins εἰδοὺ τοὺς χαλκοὺς Tod αἵματος. Leemans quotes an opinion that this meant the price of a victim, and compares Mt 27% In the sense of murder or blood-guiltiness it finds modern support in the Pontic dialect (Thumb &Z, xxii. p- 489), which is evidence for its place in the Eastern Kovwg, apart from any Semitic influence. αἱ μορροέω. The noun occurs in BGU IV. 1026! (magical text, iv/v A.D.) αἱμάροιαν lara:.—following a spell from Homer, described as αἱμαροικόν (//. 1%). Thumb (/Z xxii. “ αἱἰρεσις p- 489) compares αἱματορροῦσα “hemorrhage” in MGr (Rhodes).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
αἷμα (ahima) — blood. αἷμα, ατος, τό, blood, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: in plural, streams of blood, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. of anything like blood, Βακχίου[LXX+5th c.BC+]
2. b dye obtained from ἄγχουσα, alkanet, [Refs]
3. with collateral meaning of spirit, courage, οὐκ ἔχων αἷμα pale, spiritless [Refs 4th c.BC+]
II. bloodshcd, murder, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅμαιμον αἷ. a kinsman's murder, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; εἴργασται μητρῷον αἷ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἶ. πράττειν[Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἷμα τραγοκτόνον shedding of goat's blood, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐφ᾽ αἵματι φεύγειν to avoid trial for murder by going into exile, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: plural in this sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἵματασύγγονα brothers' corpses, [Refs 5th c.BC+] —concrete, νεακόνητον αἷ. keen-edged death, i. e. a sword, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III. blood relationship, kin, αἷ. τε καὶ γένος[Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὸ αἷ. τινος his blood or origin, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἷ. ἐμφύλιον incestuous kinship, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μητρὸς τῆς ἐμῆς ἐν αἵματι akin to her by blood, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III.2. concrete, of a person, ὦ Διὸς.. αἷμα[Refs]
αἷμα (ahima) — (Field of) Blood. αἷμα, ατος, τό, blood, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: in plural, streams of blood, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. of anything like blood, Βακχίου[LXX+5th c.BC+]
2. b dye obtained from ἄγχουσα, alkanet, [Refs]
3. with collateral meaning of spirit, courage, οὐκ ἔχων αἷμα pale, spiritless [Refs 4th c.BC+]
II. bloodshcd, murder, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅμαιμον αἷ. a kinsman's murder, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; εἴργασται μητρῷον αἷ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἶ. πράττειν[Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἷμα τραγοκτόνον shedding of goat's blood, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐφ᾽ αἵματι φεύγειν to avoid trial for murder by going into exile, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: plural in this sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἵματασύγγονα brothers' corpses, [Refs 5th c.BC+] —concrete, νεακόνητον αἷ. keen-edged death, i. e. a sword, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III. blood relationship, kin, αἷ. τε καὶ γένος[Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὸ αἷ. τινος his blood or origin, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἷ. ἐμφύλιον incestuous kinship, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μητρὸς τῆς ἐμῆς ἐν αἵματι akin to her by blood, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III.2. concrete, of a person, ὦ Διὸς.. αἷμα[Refs]