noun · masculine
architektonos
Strong’sG753
master-builder
stem architekton-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.
ἀρχι-τέκτων, -ονος, ὁ
(< τέκτων), [in LXX: Is 3:3 (חָרָשׁ) Si 38:27, II Mac 2:29*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G753 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
chief-artificer, master-builder, director of works, τοῦ ὀρύγματος, τῆς γεφύρας, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to χειροτέχνης, Refs 4th c.BC+; opposed to ἐργατικός, Refs 5th c.BC+; commissioner of works, Refs
b plural, board of naval constructors, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 generally, author, contriver, Refs 5th c.BC+; τοὺς ταῖς διανοίαις ἀ. τινός those that direct activities by thought, Refs
II at Athens, manager of the state theatre and of the Dionysia, Refs 4th 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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | architektonos1×ἀρχιτέκτων | architektonois |
| object accusative | architektonon | architektonoin |
| direct address vocative | architektonor | architektonoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | architektonou | architektonoiu |
| to, for dative | architektono | architektonoi |
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
architektono 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
architektonos“master builder”subjectnominative singular1×
1 Corinthians 3:10“master builder”… theou tan dōirantan mi hōs sofos architektonos themelion tithama, allosos de epoikodomatō. hekastos …… the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must …