noun · feminine
asfaleias
Strong’sG803
safety, security, reliability
stem asfalei-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 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.
ἀσφάλεια, -ας, ἡ
(< ἀσφαλής), [in LXX for בֶּטַח, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G803 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidas-fal'-i-ah
security (literally or figuratively)
Fromfrom G804;
King Jamescertainty, safety.
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 ας, Ionic dialect ης, ἡ, (ἀσφᾰλής) security against stumbling or falling, ἀ. πρὸς τὸν πηλόνRefs 5th c.BC+; steadfastness, stability, ἀσφαλείᾳ.. ἀνόρθωσον πόλιν raise up the city so that it stand fast, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 assurance from danger, personal safety, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. τῆς ἐπαναφορᾶς precaution regarding it, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ἰδία ἀ., opposed to ὁ τῆς πόλεως κίνδυνος, Refs 5th c.BC+safe-conduct, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. διδόναι, παρέχειν, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ σῶμ᾽ ἐν ἀσφαλείᾳ καθιστάναι, καθεστάναι, Refs 5th c.BC+; κατ᾽ ἀσφάλειαν in safety, Refs 5th c.BC+seasons of safety, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 caution, σῴζονται ὑπ᾽ ἀσφαλείαςRefs 1st c.AD+: in Lit. Crit., circumspection, Refs 4th c.BC+
4 assurance, certainty, ἀ. πολλὴ μὴ ἂν ἐλθεῖν αὐτούςRefs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. ἐργάζεσθαι τὴν γῆν security for agriculture, Refs 5th c.BC+
5 ἀ. λόγου convincing nature, certainty of an argument, NT
6 as law-term, security, bond, Refs 2nd c.AD+; pledge, Refs 1st c.BC+: in plural, = Latin cautiones, Refs 6th c.AD+
7 Refs 4th c.BC+ name for eight, Refs
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 | asfaleias1×ἀσφάλεια | asfaleiais |
| object accusative | asfaleian1×ἀσφάλειαν | asfaleiain |
| direct address vocative | asfaleiar | asfaleiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | asfaleiau | asfaleiaiu |
| to, for dative | asfaleia1×ἀσφαλείᾳ | asfaleiai |
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
asfaleia 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
asfaleias“security”subjectnominative singular1×
1 Thessalonians 5:3hotan legaleiō; Eirēnas kai asfaleias, tote aifnidios autoi epistēotō olethros hōsper …While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly …
asfaleian“certainty”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 1:4… epignōskaseia peri hoiu katēchisa logoiu tan asfaleian.so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been …
asfaleia“security”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 5:23“security”… Tem desmōtēriem heuriskana kleiorēntem en panta asfaleia kai toin fulakoin stēarēntoin epi taiu …“We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but …