adjective
apsuchem
Strong’sG895
lifeless
stem apsuch-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.
** ἄψυχος, -ον
(< ψυχή), [in LXX: Wi 13:17 14:29*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G895 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
lifeless, inanimate, πόθῳRefs 7th c.BC+; ἃ -ότατα τῶν ὀστῶν with least life or sensation, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄ. θεοί, of statues, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 ἄ. βορά non-animal food, Refs 5th c.BC+
II spiritless, faint-hearted, κάκηRefs 4th c.BC+; of style, lifeless, Refs 1st c.BC+. adverb -χωςRefs 2nd c.AD+
III materialistic, λόγοςRefs 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | apsuchos | apsuchas | apsuchem | apsuchois | apsuchais | apsucheim1×ἄψυχα |
| object accusative | apsuchon | apsuchan | apsuchoin | apsuchain | ||
| direct address vocative | apsuchor | apsuchar | apsuchoir | apsuchair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | apsuchou | apsuchau | apsucheu | apsuchoiu | apsuchaiu | apsucheiu |
| to, for dative | apsucho | apsucha | apsuche | apsuchoi | apsuchai | apsuchei |
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
apsuch 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
apsucheim“lifeless”subject or objectdirect plural1×
1 Corinthians 14:7homōs teim apsucheim fōnan dōarōnteim, eite aulos eite kitharas, …Even in the case of lifeless instruments, such as the flute or …