adēlas

Strong’sG82

unseen, not obvious

stem adēl-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἄ-δηλος, -ον

(< δῆλος), [in LXX: Ps 50 (51):6 (בַּטֻּחוֹת);]

1. unseen, unobserved, not manifest (Ps 50 (51):6): Lk 11:44.

2. uncertain, indistinct: I Co 14:8.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G82 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidad'-ay-los

hidden, figuratively, indistinct

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and G1212;

King Jamesappear not, uncertain.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἄδηλ-ος, ον,
unseen, invisible, of a fish, ποιεῖν ἑαυτὸν ἄ.Refs 4th c.BC+; ἄ. χιτών, of the hyaloid membrane of the eye, [Refs 2nd c.AD+; unknown, obscure, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐὰν δὲ.. ἄ. ὁ κτείνας ᾖ Refs; of troops, ἄ. τοῖς πολεμίοιςRefs 5th c.BC+
II mostly of things, ἄ. θάνατοι death by an unknown hand, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄ. ἔχθρα secret enmity, Refs 5th c.BC+; ῥεῖ πᾶν ἄδηλον melts all to nothing, Refs 5th c.BC+; inscrutable, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.b neuter, ἄδηλόν [ἐστι] εἰ.. it is uncertain whether.., Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄ. μή.. Refs 5th c.BC+; also ἄ. agreeing with the subject (like δίκαιός εἰμι), παῖδες ἄ. ὁποτέρων, ={ἄδηλον ὁποτέρων παῖδές εἰσιν}, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀδήλοις.. πῶς ἀποβήσεται, ={ἃ ἄ. ἐστι πῶς ἀ}., Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 not evident to sense, ὄψις τῶν ἀ. τὰ φαινόμεναRefs 5th c.BC+; opposed to φανερόν, Refs 1st c.BC+; opposed to ἐναργές,Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.3 unintelligible, φωνήNT
II.4 unproved, Refs
III adverb -λως secretly, Refs 5th c.BC+: superlative -όταταRefs

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

indistinct1×unmarked1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	adēlos	adēlas	adēlem	adēlois	adēlais	adēleim1×ἄδηλα
object accusative	adēlon	adēlan1×ἄδηλον		adēloin	adēlain
direct address vocative	adēlor	adēlar		adēloir	adēlair
of, belonging to genitive	adēlou	adēlau	adēleu	adēloiu	adēlaiu	adēleiu
to, for dative	adēlo	adēla	adēle	adēloi	adēlai	adēlei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

adēlstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

adēl is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

adēlan“indistinct”objectaccusative singular1×

1 Corinthians 14:8“indistinct”kai gar ean adēlan fōnan salpingas dōateia, tinos paraskeuazeti eis …Again, if the trumpet sounds a muffled call, who will prepare for battle?

adēleim“unmarked”subject or objectdirect plural1×

Luke 11:44… hoti avō hōs teim mnēmeieim teim adēleim, kai tois anthrōpois tois peripatarōntois epanō …… to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without …