adjective
amētōros
Strong’sG282
whose mother's name is not recorded or known
stem amētōr-once in the New Testament1 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.
* ἀμήτωρ, -ορος, ὁ, ἡ
(< μήτηρ),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G282 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
motherless, Refs 5th c.BC+ R.; of Melchizedek, NT: of the number Refs 1st c.AD+
II that is no mother, unmotherly, μήτηρ ἀμήτωρRefs 5th c.BC+; of dam mounted by her foal, Refs 3rd c.AD+; childless, 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | amētōros1×ἀμήτωρ | amētōras | amētōrem | amētōrois | amētōrais | amētōreim |
| object accusative | amētōron | amētōran | amētōroin | amētōrain | ||
| direct address vocative | amētōror | amētōrar | amētōroir | amētōrair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | amētōrou | amētōrau | amētōreu | amētōroiu | amētōraiu | amētōreiu |
| to, for dative | amētōro | amētōra | amētōre | amētōroi | amētōrai | amētōrei |
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
amētōr 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
amētōros“without mother”subjectnominative singular1×
Hebrews 7:3“without mother”apatōros, amētōros, agenealogētos, mēte archan hēmeraiu mēte zōau …Without father or mother or genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the …