adjective
arsenos
Strong’sG730
male
stem arsen-9 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books4 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.
ἄρσην (ἄρρην, T, in Ro 1:27; Rec. in Re 12:5, 13), -ενος, ὁ, ἡ, ἄρσεν, τό
(old Attic for ἄρρην, v. supr.; both forms are found in π.; MM, s.v.), [in LXX chiefly for זָכָר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G730 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidar'-hrane
male (as stronger for lifting)
Fromprobably from G142;
King Jamesmale, man.
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
genitive ἄρσενος, Epic dialect, Ionic dialect, and Trag.: Attic dialect ἄρρην Refs 5th c.BC+: Aeolic dialect, Cretan dialect, Epid., and Refs 5th c.BC+ ἔρσην, which see; ἀρσ- prevails in LXX and NT, ἀρρ- is more common in Papyrus (exc. Papyrus Mag.): nominative ἄρσης Refs 2nd c.AD+:—male, μήτε τις οὖν θήλεια θεὸς.. μήτε τις ἄρσηνRefs 8th c.BC+; γονήRefs 5th c.BC+ the male, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ ἄρσενες the male sex, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 masculine, Refs 5th c.BC+: metaphorically, mighty, κτύπος ἄρσην πόντουRefs 5th c.BC+; of plants, robust, coarse, opposed to θῆλυς (tender, delicate), Refs 5th c.BC+
3 of gender of nouns, masculine, ὀνόματαRefs 5th c.BC+
4 of sex in plants, ἀπὸ τοῦ ἄρρενος τοῖς θήλεσι βοήθειαRefs 4th c.BC+:—but also, coarse, tough, γογγυλίς Refsἀρρέντερος (compare θηλύτερος), κὰ τὠρρέντερον γένος in the male line, Refs 5th c.BC+
5 adverb ἀρρένωςRefs 4th c.BC+; cf. Sanskrit ṛ[snull]abhás 'bull', Avest. aršan- 'man'.)
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | arsenos | arsenas | arsenem5×ἄρσεν | arsenois2×ἄρσενες | arsenais | arseneim |
| object accusative | arsenon1×ἄρσενα | arsenan | arsenoin | arsenain | ||
| direct address vocative | arsenor | arsenar | arsenoir | arsenair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | arsenou | arsenau | arseneu | arsenoiu | arsenaiu | arseneiu |
| to, for dative | arseno | arsena | arsene | arsenoi1×ἄρσεσιν | arsenai | arsenei |
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
arsen 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.
9 occurrences, every one of them listed
arsenon“male”objectaccusative singular1×
Revelation 12:13… diōkata tan gunaikan hotinas tiktata ton arsenon.… who had given birth to the male child.
arsenem“male”subject or objectdirect singular5×
Matthew 19:4… anagnōskava hoti tos ktizarantos apo archau arsenem kai thēluem poiata autoin… the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
Mark 10:6apo de archau ktisiau arsenem kai thēluem poiata autoin;… beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
Revelation 12:5kai tiktata huion, arsenem, hos mellatō poimanarō panteim teim ethneim …… gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the …
Luke 2:23… grafotē en nomo kuriou hoti Pantem arsenem dianoigarōntem mētran hagiem to kurio kaliti,… Law of the Lord: “Every firstborn male shall be consecrated to the Lord”),
Galatians 3:28… eniatō doulos oude eleutheros, ouk eniatō arsenem kai thēluem; pantois gar vis henos …… Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all …
arsenois“men”subjectnominative plural2×
Romans 1:27homoiōs tē kai tois arsenois afiēkarantois tan fusikan chrēsian tau thēluau …Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and …
Romans 1:27… en ta orexia autoiu eis allēloin, arsenois en arsenoi tan aschēmosunan katergazorōntois kai …… burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men …
arsenoi“men”to, fordative plural1×
Romans 1:27… orexia autoiu eis allēloin, arsenois en arsenoi tan aschēmosunan katergazorōntois kai tan antimisthian …… Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due …