noun · masculine
apsinthos
Strong’sG894
Wormwood
stem apsinth-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.
*† ἄψινθος, -ου, ἡ
(also ἀψίνθιον, τό; ἀψινθία, ἡ),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G894 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidap'-sin-thos
wormwood (as a type of bitterness, i.e. (figuratively) calamity)
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jameswormwood.
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
wormwood, Artemisia Absinthium, Refs 5th c.BC+:—also ἄψινθος, ἡ, NT+2nd c.AD+; and ἀψινθία, ἡ, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II ἀψίνθιον, ={ἀβρότονον}, Ps.-Refs 1st c.AD+
II.2 = Artemisia monosperma, LXX+2nd c.AD+
II.3 ἀ. θαλάσσιον, ={σέριφον}, 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 | apsinthos1×Ἄψινθος | apsinthois |
| object accusative | apsinthon | apsinthoin |
| direct address vocative | apsinthor | apsinthoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | apsinthou | apsinthoiu |
| to, for dative | apsintho | apsinthoi |
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
apsintho 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
apsinthos“wormwood”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 8:11… tem onomem tou asterou legotō; tos Apsinthos. kai geneta tem tritem teiu hudeiu …The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned …