noun · masculine
aichmalōtos
Strong’sG164
a captive, prisoner
stem aichmalōt-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.
αἰχμάλωτος, -ον
(< αἰχμή, a spear, ἁλίσκομαι, to be taken), [in LXX chiefly for שָׁבָה, גּוֹלָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G164 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidaheekh-mal-o-tos'
properly, a prisoner of war, i.e. (genitive case) a captive
Fromfrom αἰχμή (a spear) and a derivative of the same as G259;
King Jamescaptive.
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
taken by the spear, captive, prisoner, Refs 5th c.BC+; frequently of women, Refs 5th c.BC+ — αἰχμάλωτοι prisoners of war, Refs 5th c.BC+; αἰ. λαμβάνειν, ἄγειν take prisoner, Refs 5th c.BC+; αἰ. γίγνεσθαι to be taken, Refs; of things, αἰ. χρήματαRefs 5th c.BC+; τὰ αἰ. booty, Refs 5th c.BC+; αἰχμάλωτον, τό, ={ἀνδράποδον}, Refs 1st c.BC+
II ={αἰχμαλωτικός, δουλοσύνη αἰ}. such as awaits a captive, Refs 5th c.BC+
III αἰχμάλωτος, ὁ, name of plasters, Refs 6th 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.
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | aichmalōtos | aichmalōtois |
| object accusative | aichmalōton | aichmalōtoin |
| direct address vocative | aichmalōtor | aichmalōtoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | aichmalōtou | aichmalōtoiu |
| to, for dative | aichmalōto | aichmalōtoi1×αἰχμαλώτοις |
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
aichmalōto 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
aichmalōtoi“captives”to, fordative plural1×
Luke 4:18… min euangelizera ptōchoi, apostelatē min kērussara aichmalōtoi afesian kai tufloi anablepsian, apostelara thrauorēntoin …… Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the …