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noun · masculine

ampelourgos

Greekἀμπελουργός (ampelourgos)

Strong’sG289

a vine-dresser

stem ampelourg-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

gardener

What it means

ἀμπελουργός, -οῦ, ὁ, ἡ,

[in LXX for כֹּרֵם;]

a vine dresser: Lk 13:7.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G289 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidam-pel-oor-gos'

a vine-worker, i.e. pruner

Fromfrom G288 and G2041;

King Jamesvine-dresser.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativeampelourgosampelourgois
object accusativeampelourgonἀμπελουργόνampelourgoin
direct address vocativeampelourgorampelourgoir
of, belonging to genitiveampelourgouampelourgoiu
to, for dativeampelourgoampelourgoi

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
ampelourgstem+ogender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

ampelourgo 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

ampelourgon“gardener”objectaccusative singular

Luke 13:7“gardener”legata de pros ton ampelourgon; Idou treis eteim apo hou erchemō zētarōtos karpon en ta suka houta kai ouk heuriskamō; ekkoptasar autan; hinati kai tan gēan katargatō?So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’