adjective
akanthinos
Strong’sG174
made of thorns
stem akanthin-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
ἀκάνθινος, -ον
(< ἄκανθα), [in LXX: Is 34:13 (סיר)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G174 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidak-an'-thee-nos
thorny
Fromfrom G173;
King Jamesof thorns.
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
of thorns, στέφανοςLXX+NT
2 metaphorically, thorny, ἐν ἀ. ἀταρποῖςRefs
II of shittah-wood, ἱστόςRefs 5th c.BC+; τὰ ἀ. cloths made of ἀκάνθιονRefs 1st c.BC+
II.2 ἀ. πάππος thistle-down, 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.
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 | akanthinos | akanthinas | akanthinem | akanthinois | akanthinais | akanthineim |
| object accusative | akanthinon2×ἀκάνθινον | akanthinan | akanthinoin | akanthinain | ||
| direct address vocative | akanthinor | akanthinar | akanthinoir | akanthinair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | akanthinou | akanthinau | akanthineu | akanthinoiu | akanthinaiu | akanthineiu |
| to, for dative | akanthino | akanthina | akanthine | akanthinoi | akanthinai | akanthinei |
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
akanthin 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
akanthinon“of thorns”objectaccusative singular2×
Mark 15:17… auton porfuran kai peritithalō auto plekarantois akanthinon stefanon;… purple robe, twisted together a crown of thorns, and set it on His head.
John 19:5… oun tos Iēsus exō, forarōntos ton akanthinon stefanon kai tem porfurouem himatiem. kai …… Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said …