noun · neuter
amfiblēstrem
Strong’sG293
a fishing net, drag-net
stem amfiblēstr-once in the New Testament0 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.
ἀμφίβληστρον, -ου, τό
(< ἀμφιβάλλω), [in LXX chiefly for חֵרֶם;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G293 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
anything thrown round:
1 casting-net, NT+8th c.BC+
1.b metaphorically, of the garment thrown like a net over Agamemnon, Refs 4th c.BC+; of the shirt of Nessus, Ἐρινύων ὑφαντὸν ἀ.Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀμφίβληστρα σώματος ῥάκη rags thrown around body, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 fetter, bond, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 of encircling walls, ἀμφίβληστρα τοίχωνRefs 5th c.BC+
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 | amfiblēstrem | amfiblēstreim |
| of, belonging to genitive | amfiblēstreu | amfiblēstreiu |
| to, for dative | amfiblēstre | amfiblēstrei |
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
amfiblēstre 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
amfiblēstrem1×
Matthew 4:18… kai Andreon ton adelfon autou, balarōntoin amfiblēstrem eis tan thalassan, ale gar halievois;… brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, for they were …