noun · neuter
anthem
Strong’sG438
bloom, flower
stem anth-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
ἄνθος, -εος, τό,
[in LXX for צִיץ, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G438 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidanth'-os
a blossom
Froma primary word;
King Jamesflower.
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
a kind of
B bird, perhaps the yellow wagtail, Refs 4th 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 | anthem4×ἄνθος | antheim |
| of, belonging to genitive | antheu | antheiu |
| to, for dative | anthe | anthei |
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
anthe 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
anthem“flower”subject or objectdirect singular4×
James 1:10… en ta tapeinōsia autou, hoti hōs anthem chortou parercheti.… he will pass away like a flower of the field.
James 1:11… kai xēranata ton chorton, kai tem anthem autou ekpiptata kai tas euprepeias teu …… heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost …
1 Peter 1:24“flower”… chortos, kai pantas doxas autau hōs anthem chortou; xēranita tos chortos, kai tem …… is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
1 Peter 1:24“flower”… chortou; xēranita tos chortos, kai tem anthem ekpiptata;… the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,