noun · masculine
aspasmos
Strong’sG783
a greeting, salutation
stem aspasm-10 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books4 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.
* ἀσπασμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< ἀσπάζομαι),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G783 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidas-pas-mos'
a greeting (in person or by letter)
Fromfrom G782;
King Jamesgreeting, salutation.
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
greeting, embrace, Refs 6th c.BC+; οἱ ἔσχατοι, οἱ τελευταῖοι ἀ., Refs 1st c.BC+: generally, salutation, NT+4th c.BC+
2 affection, opposed to μῖσος, Refs 5th 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.
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 | aspasmos4×ἀσπασμὸς | aspasmois |
| object accusative | aspasmon1×ἀσπασμὸν | aspasmoin4×ἀσπασμοὺς |
| direct address vocative | aspasmor | aspasmoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | aspasmou1×ἀσπασμοῦ | aspasmoiu |
| to, for dative | aspasmo | aspasmoi |
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
aspasmo 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.
10 occurrences, every one of them listed
aspasmos“greeting”subjectnominative singular4×
Luke 1:29… diatarassita kai dialogizote potapos atoiō tos aspasmos houtos.… words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.
1 Corinthians 16:21Tos aspasmos ta ēma cheira Paulou.This greeting is in my own hand — Paul.
Colossians 4:18Tos aspasmos ta ēma cheira Paulou. mnēmoneuavōr mu …This greeting is in my own hand — Paul …
2 Thessalonians 3:17Tos aspasmos ta ēma cheira Paulou, hem atō …This greeting is in my own hand — Paul …
aspasmon“greeting”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 1:41kai geneta hōs akouata ton aspasmon tau Mariau tas Elisabet, skirtata tem …When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb …
aspasmou“greeting”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 1:44… gar hōs geneta tas fōnas tou aspasmou su eis teim oueim mu, skirtata …… soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in …
aspasmoin“greetings”objectaccusative plural4×
Matthew 23:7kai toin aspasmoin en tai agorai kai kalorō hupo …the greetings in the marketplaces, and the title …
Mark 12:38… toiu thelarōntoiu en stolai peripatarō kai aspasmoin en tai agorai… around in long robes, to receive greetings in the marketplaces,
Luke 11:43… prōtokathedrian en tai sunagōgai kai toin aspasmoin en tai agorai.… seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.
Luke 20:46… thelarōntoiu peripatarō en stolai kai filarōntoiu aspasmoin en tai agorai kai prōtokathedriain en …… long robes, and they love the greetings in the marketplaces, the chief seats …