aristeras

Strong’sG710

on the left hand

stem arister-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 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.

ἀριστερός, -ά, -όν,

[in LXX for שְׂמֹאל;]

left, on the left: ὅπλα, II Co 6:7; ἡ ἀ. (sc. χείρ), Mt 6:3; ἐξ ἀριστερῶν, on the left (MM, s.v.): Mk 10:37, Lk 23:33.†

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

Strong’s G710 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidar-is-ter-os'

the left hand (as second-best)

Fromapparently a comparative of the same as G712;

King Jamesleft (hand).

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

ἀριστερός [ᾰ], ά, όν,
left, on the left, ἐπ᾽ ἀριστερά towards, i.e. on, the left, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 ἀριστερά (with or without χείρ), ἡ, left hand, ἐξ ἀριστερῆς χειρός on the left hand, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐς ἀριστερὴν χεῖρα ἤιε, ἐν ἀριστερῇ ἔχειν, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 metaphorically, boding ill, ominous, because to a Greek, looking northward, unlucky signs came from the left, ἀ. ἤλυθεν ὄρνιςRefs 8th c.BC+
4 awkward, erring, φρενόθεν ἐπ᾽ ἀριστερὰ ἔβας turnedst to the leftward of thy mind, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπ᾽ ἀριστερὰ εἴληφας τὸ πρᾶγμα in a sinister sense, Refs 4th c.BC+; τῷ ἀριστερῷ δέχεσθαι [λόγους] Refs 1st c.AD+. (Prop. 'better', compare ἄριστο; euphemism (compare εὐώνυμος) to avoid ill-luck.)

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.

left3×left hand1×

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	aristeros	aristeras1×ἀριστερά	aristerem	aristerois	aristerais	aristereim
object accusative	aristeron	aristeran		aristeroin	aristerain
direct address vocative	aristeror	aristerar		aristeroir	aristerair
of, belonging to genitive	aristerou	aristerau	aristereu	aristeroiu	aristeraiu	aristereiu3×ἀριστερῶν
to, for dative	aristero	aristera	aristere	aristeroi	aristerai	aristerei

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

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

arister 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.

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

aristeras“left hand”subjectnominative singular1×

Matthew 6:3… de poiarōntou eleēmosunan mē gnōskatar tas aristeras su tinem poiatō tas dexas su,… the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is …

aristereiu“left”of, belonging togenitive plural3×

Mark 10:37… su ek dexeiu kai henos ek aristereiu kathizaneia en ta doxa su.… hand and the other at Your left in Your glory.”

Luke 23:33… men ek dexeiu hon de ek aristereiu.… right and the other on His left.

2 Corinthians 6:7… hopleiu tau dikaiosunau teiu dexeiu kai aristereiu,… the right hand and in the left;