asēmas

Strong’sG767

undistinguished, obscure

stem asēm-once in the New Testament1 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.

ἄσημος, -ον

(< σῆμα, a mark), [in LXX: Ge 30:42 (עטף), Jb 42:11, III Mac 1:3*;]

without mark (in π. of an uncircumcised boy: Deiss., BS, 153; MM, s.v.). Metaph. (MM, s.v.), unknown, obscure: litotes, οὐκ ἄ (Eur., al.), πόλις, Ac 21:39.†

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

Strong’s G767 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidas'-ay-mos

unmarked, i.e. (figuratively) ignoble

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and the base of G4591;

King Jamesmean.

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

ἄσημος,
Doric dialect ἄσᾱμος, ον, without mark or token, ἄ. χρυσός uncoined gold, bullion, or plate, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄ. χρυσίον, ἀργύριον, Refs 5th c.BC+; frequently in Inscrr., opposed to ἐπίσημον, Refs 2nd c.AD+; also of cattle, not branded, Refs; of persons, without distinguishing marks (e. g. οὐλαί), Refs; ἄ. ὅπλα arms without device, Refs 5th c.BC+: generally, shapeless, formless, Refs 3rd c.AD+
2 later τὸ ἄσημον (i.e. ἀργύριον) plate, silver, LXX+6th c.AD+; μέταλλα ἀσήμου silver-mines, Refs 2nd c.AD+: also, = electron, alloy of gold and silver, or an imitation thereof, Refs 5th c.BC+:—masculine ἄσημος, ὁ, Refs
II of sacrifices, oracles, and the like, unintelligible, χρηστήριαRefs 5th c.BC+; ἄ. ὀργίων μαντεύματε Refs 5th c.BC+
III leaving no mark, indistinct,
III.a to the hearing, πτερῶν γὰρ ῥοῖβδος οὐκ ἄ. ἦν Refs; of sounds and voices, inarticulate, unintelligible, ἄσημα φράζεινRefs 5th c.BC+; ἄσημα βοῆς, ={ἄσημος βοή}, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.b without significance, meaningless, [τοῦ διπλοῦ ὀνόματος] τὸ μὲν ἐκ σημαίνοντος καὶ ἀσήμουRefs 4th c.BC+; ἄσημα τρίζειν, of a mouse, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III.c to the eye, ἄσημον ἔχειν μυελόνRefs 4th c.BC+
III.d generally, unperceived, unnoticed, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀσήμων ὑπὲρ ἑρμάτων hidden, sunken rocks, Refs 6th c.BC+
IV of persons, cities, etc., of no mark, obscure, insignificant, οὐκ ἄ.Refs 5th c.BC+; νὺξ οὐκ ἄ. a night to be remembered (being a feast), Refs 5th c.BC+
V adverb -μως without leaving traces,Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. καὶ κενῶς φθέγγεσθαι inarticulately, Refs 4th c.BC+
V.2 ignobly, οὐκ ἀ.Refs 1st 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.

unimportant1×

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	asēmos	asēmas	asēmem	asēmois	asēmais	asēmeim
object accusative	asēmon	asēman		asēmoin	asēmain
direct address vocative	asēmor	asēmar		asēmoir	asēmair
of, belonging to genitive	asēmou	asēmau1×ἀσήμου	asēmeu	asēmoiu	asēmaiu	asēmeiu
to, for dative	asēmo	asēma	asēme	asēmoi	asēmai	asēmei

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

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

asēm 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

asēmau“unimportant”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Acts 21:39“unimportant”… amō Ioudaios, Tarsevos tau Kilikiau, ouk asēmau polau politos; domō de su, epitrepasar …… answered, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Now I beg you to allow …