noun · feminine
aloas
Strong’sG250
aloes
stem alo-once in the New Testament1 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.
† ἀλόη, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX: Ca 4:14 א (אֲהָלִים)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G250 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidal-o-ay'
aloes (the gum)
Fromof foreign origin (compare G174);
King Jamesaloes.
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
bitter aloes, Aloe vera, Refs 1st c.AD+
2 ={ἀγάλλοχον}, LXX (in Heb. form ἀλώθ), NT
3 ἀ. γαλλική, ={γεντιανή}, Ps.-Refs 1st c.AD+
4 ἀ. ἡπατῖτις, hepatic aloes, Aloe Perryi, 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 nominative | aloas | aloais |
| object accusative | aloan | aloain |
| direct address vocative | aloar | aloair |
| of, belonging to genitive | aloau1×ἀλόης | aloaiu |
| to, for dative | aloa | aloai |
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
aloa 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
aloau“aloes”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
John 19:39… tem prōtem, ferarōntos migmem smurnau kai aloau hōs litrain hekaton.… brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.