noun · feminine
amoibas
Strong’sG287
a change, an exchange
stem amoib-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.
** ἀμοιβή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< ἀμείβομαι, to repay); [in Aq., Sm.: Pr 12:14, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G287 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidam-oy-bay'
requital
Fromfrom ἀμείβω (to exchange);
King Jamesrequite.
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
(ἀμείβω) requital, recompense, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀγαναῖς ἀ. τινὰ τίνεσθαι to requite him by like return, Refs; οἵας ἀ. ἐξ Ἰάσονος κυρεῖRefs 5th c.BC+; retribution, ἔργων ἀντ᾽ ἀδίκων χαλεπὴν ἐπέθηκεν ἀ.Refs 8th c.BC+
2 repayment, compensation, τείσουσι βοῶν ἐπιεικέ᾽ ἀ.Refs 8th c.BC+
3 that which is given in exchange, τῷ σκυτοτόμῳ ἀντὶ τῶν ὑποδημάτων ἀ. γίνεται κατ᾽ ἀξίανRefs 4th c.BC+
4 answer, ἀσχήμων ἐν τῇ ἀ.Refs 5th c.BC+
II change, exchange, τὰς ἀ. ποιεῖσθαιRefs 1st c.BC+; of money, Refs 1st c.AD+
III change, alternation, κακῶνRefs 5th c.BC+
III.2 transformation, Refs 3rd c.AD+
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 | amoibas | amoibais |
| object accusative | amoiban | amoibain1×ἀμοιβὰς |
| direct address vocative | amoibar | amoibair |
| of, belonging to genitive | amoibau | amoibaiu |
| to, for dative | amoiba | amoibai |
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
amoiba 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
amoibain“recompense”objectaccusative plural1×
1 Timothy 5:4“recompense”… prōton ton idion oikon eusebarō kai amoibain apodōarō toi progonoi, houtem gar atō …… they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in …