adjective
akribas
Strong’sG196
most exact, strict
stem akrib-once in the New Testament0 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.
ἀκριβής, -ές
[in LXX: Da LXX 2:45 6:12 (יַצִּיב) Da 4:25, Es 4:5, Si 18:29 19:25 31:24 32:3*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G196 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidak-ree-bes'-ta-tos
most exact
Fromsuperlative of ἀκρίβης (a derivative of the same as G206);
King Jamesmost straitest.
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
exact, accurate, precise, Refs 5th c.BC+; τριταῖος returning precisely at its time, Refs; γαλήνη complete calm, Refs 4th c.AD+
II of persons, precise, strict, δικασταίRefs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. τοῖς ὄμμασι sharp- sighted, Refs 3rd c.BC+; of arguments, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ ἀ., ={ἀκρίβεια}, Refs 5th c.BC+adverb -βῶς to a nicety, precisely, ἀ. εἰδέναι, ἐπίστασθαι, καθορᾶν, μαθεῖν, etc., Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἁπλῶς, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to τύπῳ (in outline, roughly), Refs 4th c.BC+: comparative -έστερονNT+5th c.BC+: superlative -έσταταRefs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. καὶ μόλις with greatest difficulty, Refs 1st c.AD+ —also οὐκ εἰς ἀκριβὲς ἦλθες at the right moment, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 in the strict sense of the word, ὁ ἀ. ἰατρόςRefs 5th c.BC+
II.2.b pure-bred, genuine, ΚόλχοςRefs 4th c.AD+
II.2.c Astron., true, opposed to φαινόμενος, Refs 5th c.AD+
II.3 parsimonious, stingy, ἀ. τοὺς τρόπουςRefs 4th c.BC+. adverb -βῶς, διαιτᾶσθαιRefs 5th c.BC+ —Rare except in _Attic dialect_, mostly Prose. (The sense points to ἄκρος as the first part of the word, but -ῑβης remains uncertain)
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 | akribos | akribas | akribem | akribois | akribais | akribeim |
| object accusative | akribon | akriban | akriboin | akribain | ||
| direct address vocative | akribor | akribar | akriboir | akribair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | akribou | akribau | akribeu | akriboiu | akribaiu | akribeiu |
| to, for dative | akribo | akriba | akribe | akriboi | akribai | akribei |
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
akrib 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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
akribotatan1×
Acts 26:5… ean thelaleiō marturarō, hoti kata tan akribotatan hairesian tau hēmeterau thrēskeiau zōama Farisaios.… as a Pharisee, adhering to the strictest sect of our religion.