adjective
aptaistos
Strong’sG679
without stumbling or falling
stem aptaist-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.
** ἄ-πταιστος, -ον
(< πταίω), [in LXX: III Mac 6:39*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G679 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
not stumbling, ἀπταιστστερον παρέχειν τὸν ἵππον make a horse less aptto stumble, Refs 5th c.BC+; infallible, Refs 2nd c.AD+. adverb -τωςRefs 5th c.BC+; inevitably, Refs 2nd c.AD+: comparative -ότερον with greater precision, Refs 2nd c.AD+:—also ἀπρο-τί, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 intact, Refs 1st c.AD+
II not causing to stumble, giving a good footing, λεία καὶ ἄ. ὁδόςRefs 1st 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | aptaistos | aptaistas | aptaistem | aptaistois | aptaistais | aptaisteim |
| object accusative | aptaiston | aptaistan | aptaistoin1×ἀπταίστους | aptaistain | ||
| direct address vocative | aptaistor | aptaistar | aptaistoir | aptaistair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | aptaistou | aptaistau | aptaisteu | aptaistoiu | aptaistaiu | aptaisteiu |
| to, for dative | aptaisto | aptaista | aptaiste | aptaistoi | aptaistai | aptaistei |
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
aptaist 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
aptaistoin“stumbling”objectaccusative plural1×
Jude 1:24To de dunorōnto fulassara vin aptaistoin kai stēara katenōpion tau doxau autou …… is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in …