adjective

arafos

Greekἄραφος (arafos)

Strong’sG729

not sewed, seamless

stem araf-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

seamless1×

What it means

* 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.

Every form

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

arafos“seamless”subjectnominative singular1×

John 19:23“seamless”tois oun stratiōtois hote staurala ton Iēsun lambala teim himatieim autou kai poiala tessares mereim, hekasto stratiōto merem, kai ton chitōnon. ate de tos chitōnos arafos, ek teiu anōthen hufantos dia holou;When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided His garments into four parts, one for each soldier, with the tunic remaining. It was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.