G5470: χάλκεος (chálkeos)

G5470 χάλκεος (chálkeos)

Greek

Quick Definition

χάλκοῦς, ῆ, οῦν Adj made of bronze

Strong's Definition

coppery

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

χαλκοῦς (G5470)

adjc. | -ῆ, -οῦν | χαλκός

2.56 · Natural Substances · Metals

made of bronze (brass or copper) (derivative of χαλκός[a] ‘bronze, brass, copper,’ 2.54) pertaining to being made or consisting of bronze, brass, or copper

REV 9:20

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

χαλκός, -od, ὁ, fr. Hom. down, Sept. for nwn3, brass: 1 Co. xiii. 1; Rev. xviii. 12; (like the Lat. aes) what is made of brass, money, coins of brass (also of silver and of gold), Mt.x. 9; Mk.vi.8; xii. 41. [B.D.s. v. Brass; Dict. of Antiq. 8. v. aes.]

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

χαλκοῦς chalkous 1x

contracted form of χάλκεος, made of copper, brass, or bronze, Rev. 9:20*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

χάλκεος, -έα, -εον (-οῦς, -ῆ, -οῦν)

(< χαλκός), [in LXX chiefly for נְחֹשֶׁת ;]

brazen (i.e. of copper): Re 9:20.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

χαλκός. From meaning ‘‘ bronze”’ generally (1 Cor 131, Rev 1815), χαλκός comes to be applied to ““ bronze-money” (Mk 68, 1241): cf. P Lips I. 106!® (a.p. 98) βλέπε δέ, μηδενὶ ἄλλῳ Bois (/. δῷς) χαλκόν, P Tebt 11. 41479 (ii/A.D.) πέμψῃ μοι τὸν χαλκόν, ἔπι ἔρχομαι, ‘send me the money, since I am μοι πόσου χαλκοῦ δέδωκες αὐτῶι, “let me know how much money you have given to him” (Edd.).

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

χάλκεος (chalkeos) — bronze. χάλκεος, έα, Ionic dialect -έη [Refs 8th c.BC+], εον (also εος, εον [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect, Doric dialect χάλκιος [Refs 7th c.BC+], also Boeotian dialect, compare χαλκοῦ; Attic dialect χαλκοῦς, ῆ, οῦν [Refs], but χαλκέων δέλτων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect also χάλκειος, see at {χάλκειος}: (χαλκός):—of copper or bronze, brazen, οὐδός, δόμος, τεῖχος, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄξων, κύκλα, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; especially of arms and armour, ἔγχος, ξίφος, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἔντεα [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χαλκέοισικάδοις, χαλκέοις δρεπάνοις, S.[same place]; in Trag. mostly contraction, χαλκοῖς βάθροισι [Refs] __b of statues, χ. Ζεύς, χ. Ποσειδέων, a bronze statue of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare χαλκῆ. __c χ. ἀγών a contest for a shield of brass, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. metaphorically, brazen, i. e. hard, stout, strong, χάλκεος Ἄρης [Refs 8th c.BC+] (unless wearing brazen armour, compare χάλκεοι ἄνδρες Oracle texts cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Χαλκοῦς, nickname of Aristomedes, [Refs 4th c.BC+]in D.[Refs 5th c.BC+]; χάλκεον ἦτορ a heart of brass, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; χαλκέοισι νώτοις, of Atlas, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

3. χαλκῆ μυῖα, a boy's game, a sort of blind-man's-buff, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]

II. as substantive, see at {χαλκοῦς. [χάλκεοι} is disyllable in [Refs 8th c.BC+]