noun · masculine
amnos
Strong’sG286
a lamb
stem amn-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
ἀμνός, -οῦ, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for כֶּבֶשׂ;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G286 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidam-nos'
a lamb
Fromapparently a primary word;
King Jameslamb.
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
lamb, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀμνοὶ τοὺς τρόπους lambs in temper, NT+3rd c.BC+ i.e. agynos, cf. Latin agnus.)
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 | amnos3×ἀμνὸς | amnois |
| object accusative | amnon | amnoin |
| direct address vocative | amnor | amnoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | amnou1×ἀμνοῦ | amnoiu |
| to, for dative | amno | amnoi |
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
amno 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
amnos“lamb”subjectnominative singular3×
John 1:29… pros auton, kai legatō; Ide tos amnos tou theou tos airarōntos tan hamartan …… toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the …
John 1:36… to Iēso peripatarōnto legatō; Ide tos amnos tou theou.… walking by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
Acts 8:32… probatem epi sfagan agita, kai hōs amnos enantion tou keirarantou auton afōnos, houtōs …… to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so …
amnou“lamb”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
1 Peter 1:19alla timie haime hōs amnou amōmou kai aspilou Christou,… the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.