aspidas

Strong’sG785

an asp

stem aspid-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.

ἀσπίς, -ίδος, ἡ,

[in LXX for פֶּתֶן, etc.;]

an asp: Ro 3:13.†

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

Strong’s G785 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidas-pece'

a buckler (or round shield); used of a serpent (as coiling itself), probably the "asp"

Fromof uncertain derivation;

King Jamesasp.

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

ἀσπίς, ίδος, ἡ,
shield, εὔκυκλοςRefs 8th c.BC+; opposed to Thracian πέλτη and Persian γέρρον, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀσπίδα ῥῖψαι, ἀποβαλεῖν, Refs 6th c.BC+: to estimate a victory, ἀσπίδας ἔλαβον ὡς διακοσίαςRefs 5th c.BC+
2 collective, body of men-at-arms, ὀκτακισχιλίη ἀ.Refs 5th c.BC+
3 military phrases, ἐπ᾽ ἀσπίδας πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι τάξασθαι to be drawn up twenty-five deep or in file, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπὶ μιᾶς ἀσπίδος in single line, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπ᾽ ἀσπίδα, παρ᾽ ἀσπίδα (opposed to ἐπὶ δόρυ), on the left, towards or to the left, because the shield was on the left arm, Refs 5th c.BC+; but παρ᾽ ἀσπίδα, literally, beside the shield, Refs 8th c.BC+; παρ᾽ ἀ. στῆναι stand in battle, Refs 5th c.BC+; παρ᾽ ἀ. βεβηκέναιRefs; ἀσπίδας συγκλείειν (compare συγκλείω); ἀσπίδα τίθεσθαι serve in the ranks, Refs 5th c.BC+; but θέσθαι τὰς ἀ. pile shields, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπειδὰν ἀ. ψοφῇ when the shields ring, i.e. when two bodies of men meet in a charge, Refs; ἀσπίδα ἀναδέξαι, ἆραι, as a signal, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 of a round, flat bowl, Refs 4th c.BC+
5 boss on a door, Refs
II asp, Egyptian cobra, Coluber haié, Refs 5th c.BC+; a play on signff. I and II, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 ornament in this form, 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.

asps1×

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	aspidas	aspidais
object accusative	aspidan	aspidain
direct address vocative	aspidar	aspidair
of, belonging to genitive	aspidau	aspidaiu1×ἀσπίδων
to, for dative	aspida	aspidai

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

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

aspida 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

aspidaiu“asps”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

Romans 3:13“asps”… autoiu, tai glōssai autoiu doliale, ios aspidaiu hupo teim cheileim autoiu,“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”