ainos

Strong’sG136

praise

stem ain-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.

αἶνος, ου, ὁ,

[in LXX for הלל pi, עֹז;] poët, and Ion.,

1. = μῦθος, a tale (Horn., al.).

2. = Att. ἔπαινος, praise (Horn., al.): Mt 21:16 (LXX), Lk 18:43.

3. In π., a decree (MM, VGT, s.v.).†

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

Strong’s G136 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidah'-ee-nos

properly, a story, but used in the sense of G1868; praise (of God)

Fromapparently a prime word;

King Jamespraise.

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

αἶνος, ὁ,
(αἰνέω) poetry and Ionic dialect word, tale, story, Refs 8th c.BC+; αἰνεῖν αἶνον to tell a tale, Refs 5th c.BC+: especially story with moral, fable, Refs 8th c.BC+: generally, saying, proverb, παλαιὸς αἶ.Refs 5th c.BC+; riddle, Refs
II = Attic dialect ἔπαινος, praise, NT+8th c.BC+
III decree, resolution, τῶν ἈχαιῶνRefs; κατ᾽ αἶνον, opposed to κατὰ ψήφισμα, Refs

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.

praise2×

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	ainos	ainois
object accusative	ainon2×αἶνον	ainoin
direct address vocative	ainor	ainoir
of, belonging to genitive	ainou	ainoiu
to, for dative	aino	ainoi

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

ainstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

aino 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

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

ainamō — αἰνέω, I praise

Where it appears

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

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

ainon“praise”objectaccusative singular2×

Matthew 21:16… Ek stomeu nēpioiu kai thēlazarōntoiu katartizesa ainon?… children and infants You have ordained praise’?”

Luke 18:43… kai pantos tos laos horarantos dōata ainon to theo.… people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.