noun · neuter
akrem
Strong’sG206
the end, extremity
stem akr-6 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 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.
ἄκρον, -ου, τό, v.s. ἄκρος.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G206 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidak'-ron
the extremity
Fromneuter of an adjective probably akin to the base of G188;
King Jamesone end… other, tip, top, uttermost participle
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
(neuter of ἄκρος) like{ἄκρα}, highest or farthest point:
1 mountain top, peak, Γάργαρον ἄκρον ἼδηςRefs 8th c.BC+; τὰ ἄκρα heights, Refs 5th c.BC+
1.b ἄκρα νάων ships' tops, Refs 7th c.BC+
2 headland, cape, Σούνιον ἄκρον ἈθηνέωνRefs 8th c.BC+
3 end, extremity, τὰ ἄ. τῆς θαλάσσης, [τοῦἀέρος], Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄκρα χειρῶν hands, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ἐξ ἄκρων at the end, Refs 5th c.BC+:—border, frontier, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II metaphorically, highest pitch, height, πανδοξίας ἄκρονRefs 5th c.BC+; εἰς ἄκρον ἀνδρείας ἱκέσθαι to highest pitch, Refs 4th c.BC+; εἰς ἄκρον ἁδύς exceedingly, Refs 3rd c.BC+; ἐπ᾽ ἄκρον ἀφικέσθαι, ἐλθεῖν, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄκρον ἐρώτων εἰδότος, ἄκρα μάχαςRefs 1st c.AD+ —ἄκρα, τά, heights, highest point, οὔτοι ποθ᾽ ἥξει (sic) τῶν ἄκρων ἄνευ πόνουRefs 5th c.BC+; ἄκρα φέρεσθαι win prize, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.2 of persons, Ἄργεος ἄκρα Πελασγοί pride of Argos, Refs 3rd c.BC+
III δρυὸς ἄκρα, ={ἀκρόδρυα}, Refs
IV in Logic of Refs 4th c.BC+ are major and minor terms of syllogism, opposed to to μέσον or middle, Refs
V extremes in a proportion, 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.
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 | akrem | akreim |
| of, belonging to genitive | akreu2×ἄκρου | akreiu2×ἄκρων |
| to, for dative | akre | akrei |
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
akre 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.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
akreu“ends”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Mark 13:27… eklektoin ek toiu tessares anemoiu apo akreu gēau heōs akreu ouranou.… from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends …
Mark 13:27… tessares anemoiu apo akreu gēau heōs akreu ouranou.… ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
akreiu“other”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Matthew 24:31… autou ek toiu tessares anemoiu apo akreiu ouranoiu heōs teiu akreiu autoiu.… elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
Matthew 24:31… anemoiu apo akreiu ouranoiu heōs teiu akreiu autoiu.… end of the heavens to the other.
akrem2×
Luke 16:24… kai pempasar Lazaron hina baptateia tem akrem tou daktulou autou hudeu kai katapsuchateia …… and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and …
Hebrews 11:21… Iōsēf eulogata, kai proskunata epi tem akrem tau rabdau autou.… worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.