ainigmem

Strong’sG135

a riddle, an enigma

stem ainigm-once in the New Testament1 of 6 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.

αἴνιγμα, -ατος, τό

(< αἰνίσσομαι, to speak in riddles; < αἰνός = δεινός, dread, strange), [in LXX for חִידָה, Nu 12:8 and always exc. De 28:37 (שַׁמָּה);]

a dark saying, riddle: I Co 13:12 (cf. Nu 12:8).†

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

Strong’s G135 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidah'-ee-nig-ma

an obscure saying ("enigma"), i.e. (abstractly) obscureness

Fromfrom a derivative of G136 (in its primary sense);

King JamesX darkly.

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

αἴνιγμα, ατος, τό,
dark saying, riddle, LXX+5th c.BC+ in riddles, darkly, NT+4th c.BC+; αἴ. προβάλλειν, ξυντιθέναι, πλέκειν to make a riddle, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to διειπεῖν, εἰδέναι, Refs 5th c.BC+
II taunt, Refs 5th c.AD+
III ambush Refs 4th 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.

reflection1×

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 or object direct	ainigmem	ainigmeim
of, belonging to genitive	ainigmeu	ainigmeiu
to, for dative	ainigme1×αἰνίγματι	ainigmei

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

ainigmstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

ainigme 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

ainigme“reflection”to, fordative singular1×

1 Corinthians 13:12blepanō gar arti dia esoptreu en ainigme, tote de prosōpem pros prosōpem; arti …Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we …