arafos

Strong’sG729

not sewed, seamless

stem araf-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.

* ἄραφος, -ον (Rec. ἄρραφος,

< ῥάπτω, to sew)

without seam: Jo 19:23.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G729 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidar'-hhraf-os

unsewed, i.e. of a single piece

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of the same as G4476;

King Jameswithout seam.

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

ἄρρᾰφος, ον,
(ῥάπτω) without seam, NT+1st c.AD+
2 without sutures, Refs 2nd 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.

seamless1×

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	arafos1×ἄραφος	arafas	arafem	arafois	arafais	arafeim
object accusative	arafon	arafan		arafoin	arafain
direct address vocative	arafor	arafar		arafoir	arafair
of, belonging to genitive	arafou	arafau	arafeu	arafoiu	arafaiu	arafeiu
to, for dative	arafo	arafa	arafe	arafoi	arafai	arafei

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

arafstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

araf 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

arafos“seamless”subjectnominative singular1×

John 19:23… ton chitōnon. ate de tos chitōnos arafos, ek teiu anōthen hufantos dia holou;… with the tunic remaining. It was seamless, woven in one piece from top …