adolem

Strong’sG97

pure

stem adol-once in the New Testament1 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.

* ἄδολος, -ον,

1. guileless (Pind., Thuc).

2. Of liquids (Æsch., Eur., and late prose writers), genuine, pure (in π. and in MGr. of wine, also of corn: MM, VGT, s.v.; Milligan, NTD, 77): of milk, metaph., I Pe 2:2.†

SYN.: ἀκέραιος (q.v.), ἄκακος, ἁπλοῦς.

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

Strong’s G97 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidad'-ol-os

and G1388; undeceitful, i.e. (figuratively) unadulterated

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle);

King Jamessincere.

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

ἄδολος, ον,
guileless, honest, σοφίαRefs 5th c.BC+; in Attic dialectespecially of treaties, ἄ. εἰράναRefs 5th c.BC+adverb, frequently in the phrase ἀδόλως καὶ δικαίως without fraud or covin, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀδολώτερον λέγεσθαι, opposed to πιστότερον, Refs 5th c.BC+:— also, genuinely, truly, τεθνάκην ἀ. θέλωRefs 7th c.BC+
II unadulterated, genuine, χρίματος ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαιςRefs 4th c.BC+; χρυσός Eupolem. cited in Refs 1st c.BC+; σῖτος, πυρός, Refs pure, NT+5th c.BC+
II.2 unpretentious, Refs 1st c.AD+

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.

pure1×

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	adolos	adolas	adolem1×ἄδολον	adolois	adolais	adoleim
object accusative	adolon	adolan		adoloin	adolain
direct address vocative	adolor	adolar		adoloir	adolair
of, belonging to genitive	adolou	adolau	adoleu	adoloiu	adolaiu	adoleiu
to, for dative	adolo	adola	adole	adoloi	adolai	adolei

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

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

adol 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

adolem“pure”subject or objectdirect singular1×

1 Peter 2:2hōs artigennēteim brefeim tem logikem adolem galaktem epipothavar, hina en aute auxaniveia …Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it …