noun · feminine
apeilas
Strong’sG547
a threatening, threat
stem apeil-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 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.
ἀπειλή, -ῆ, ἡ,
[in LXX for גְּעָרָה, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G547 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidap-i-lay'
a menace
Fromfrom G546;
King JamesX straitly, threatening.
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
mostly in plural, boastful promises, boasts, ποῦ τοι ἀπειλαὶ ἃς.. ὑπίσχεο οἰνοποτάζων;Refs 8th c.BC+
II commonly in plural, threats, ποῦ τοι ἀπειλαὶ οἴχονται τὰς Τρωσὶν ἀπείλεον υἷες Ἀχαιῶ;Refs 8th c.BC+
II.2 of threatening conditions, ἀ. πνιγμοῦRefs 3rd c.AD+; τὰ ἐν ἀπειλῇ ἀποστήματα Heras cited in Refs 2nd c.AD+; of storms, Refs 1st 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 | apeilas | apeilais |
| object accusative | apeilan1×ἀπειλήν | apeilain1×ἀπειλὰς |
| direct address vocative | apeilar | apeilair |
| of, belonging to genitive | apeilau1×ἀπειλῆς | apeilaiu |
| to, for dative | apeila | apeilai |
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
apeila 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
apeilan“threatening”objectaccusative singular1×
Ephesians 6:9“threatening”… auteim poiavōr pros autoin, aniēkarōntois tan apeilan, oidarēntois hoti kai autoiu kai vu …And masters, do the same for your slaves. Give up your use of threats, because you know that He who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is …
apeilau“threats”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 9:1Tos de Saulos ēti empnarōntos apeilau kai fonou eis toin mathētoin tou …… Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord …
apeilain“threats”objectaccusative plural1×
Acts 4:29… teim nun, kurior, eforasar epi tain apeilain autoiu kai dōasar toi douloi su …And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak …