arkas

Strong’sG715

a bear

stem ark-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.

ἄρκος (Rec. (cl.) ἅρκιος),

[in LXX for דֹּב;]

-ου, ὁ, ἡ,

a bear: Re 13:2. (This form is also found in late Inscr.; MM, s.v.)†

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

Strong’s G715 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidark'-tos

a bear (as obstructing by ferocity)

Fromprobably from G714;

King Jamesbear.

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

ἄρκτος, ἡ,
bear, especially Ursus arctos, brown bear, Refs 8th c.BC+: the instances of the masculine are uncertain Refs 4th c.BC+, the feminine being used even when both sexes are included, Refs
2 Ἄρκτος, ἡ, the constellation Ursa Major, Ἄρκτον θ᾽, ἣν καὶ Ἄμαξαν ἐπίκλησιν καλέουσινRefs 8th c.BC+: in plural, the Greater and Lesser Bears, Refs 4th c.BC+; Ἄ. μικρά, μεγάλη, Refs 1st c.BC+
3 the north, πρὸς ἄρκτον τετραμμένοςRefs 5th c.BC+
3.b ἡ ἑτέρα ἄ. the south pole, Refs 4th c.BC+
II ἄρκτος, ἡ, at Athens a girl appointed to the service of Artemis Brauronia or Ἀρχηγέτις, Refs 5th c.BC+
III a kind of crab, probably Scyllarus arctus, Refs 4th c.BC+
IV ἄρκτου δένδρον, ={ἀκτῆ}, Ps.-Refs 1st c.AD+. (Cf. Sanskrit ṛk[snull]as, Latin ursus, etc.)

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.

bear’s1×

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	arkas	arkais
object accusative	arkan	arkain
direct address vocative	arkar	arkair
of, belonging to genitive	arkau1×ἄρκου	arkaiu
to, for dative	arka	arkai

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

arkstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

arka 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

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

arkamō — ἀρκέω, I am sufficient, I suffice, am content, satisfied

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

arkau“bear’s”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Revelation 13:2“bear’s”… pardalia, kai tois podois auteu hōs arkau, kai tem stomem auteu hōs stomem …… like a leopard, with the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave the beast his power and his throne …