noun · feminine
amethustas
Strong’sG271
amethyst
stem amethust-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.
ἀμέθυστος, -ου, ἡ
(acc. to Plut., < ἀ- μεθύω, being regarded as an antidote against drunkenness), [in LXX: Ex 28:19 36:19 39:12 Ez 28:13*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G271 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(μεθύω) not drunken, without drunkenness, Refs 1st c.AD+: comparative, Refs
II not intoxicating, perhaps so used in Refs 4th c.AD+substantive, ἀμέθυστον, τό, remedy against drunkenness, Refs 1st c.AD+; also ἀμέθυστος, ἡ, Refs 1st c.AD+ —hence, such things as were supposed to act as remedies, i.e. ,
II.1 kind of herb, Refs 1st c.AD+; ={σέλινον ἄγριον}, Ps.-Refs 1st c.AD+
II.2 amethyst, LXX+NT+5th c.BC+:—also ἀμέθυστον, τό, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.3 ἀμέθυστον, τό, kind of grape, Colum.3.2.24.
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 | amethustas1×ἀμέθυστος | amethustais |
| object accusative | amethustan | amethustain |
| direct address vocative | amethustar | amethustair |
| of, belonging to genitive | amethustau | amethustaiu |
| to, for dative | amethusta | amethustai |
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
amethusta 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
amethustas“amethyst”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 21:20… chrusoprasos, tos hendekatos huakinthos, tos dōdekatos amethustas;… the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.