astrem

Strong’sG798

a star

stem astr-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 6 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.

ἄστρον, -ου, τό,

[in LXX chiefly for כּוֹכָב;]

(a) mostly in pl. (as in cl.), the stars: Lk 21:25, Ac 27:20, He 11:12;

(b) in sing. (Xen., al.), only of some noted star; the symbol or image of a star, Ac 7:43 (cf. ἀστήρ, and v. MM, s.v.).†

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

Strong’s G798 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidas'-tron

properly, a constellation; put for a single star (natural or artificial)

Fromneuter from G792;

King Jamesstar.

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

ἄστρον, τό,
mostly in plural, the stars, Refs 8th c.BC+; τοῦ κατ᾽ ἄστρα Ζηνός, ={τοῦ ἐν οὐρανῷ}, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄστρων εὐφρόνη, ={εὐφρ. ἀστερόεσσα}, Refs probable reading in Refs 7th c.BC+; περὶ τὸ ἄ. in the dog-days, Refs 5th c.BC+; poetry of the sun, Refs 5th c.BC+: seldom of any common star, Refs 4th c.BC+; of the fixed stars, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἄστρα πλανητά, opposed to ἀπλανῆ, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἐνδεδεμένα, Refs 4th c.BC+; opposed to ἀστέρες, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ἐπὶ τοῖς ἄστροις at the times of the stars' rising or setting, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄστροις σημαίνεσθαι, τεκμαίρεσθαι, guide oneself by the stars, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ἄστροις τὸ λοιπὸν ἐκμετρούμενος χθόνα knowing its place only by the stars, Refs 5th c.BC+
II of something brilliant, admirable, Ἀκροκόρινθον Ἑλλάδος ἄ.Refs 3rd 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.

stars3×star1×

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 or object direct	astrem	astreim1×ἄστρα
of, belonging to genitive	astreu	astreiu1×ἄστρων
to, for dative	astre	astrei1×ἄστροις

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

astrstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

astre 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.

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

astreim“stars”subject or objectdirect plural1×

Hebrews 11:12… gennila, kai houteim nekrorēntou, kathōs teim astreim tou ouranou te plēthe kai hōs …… came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless …

astreiu“stars”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

Acts 27:20mēte de hēliou mēte astreiu epifanarōnteiu epi polloterain hēmerain, cheimōnou tē …When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the …

astrei“stars”to, fordative plural1×

Luke 21:25… sēmeim en hēlio kai selēna kai astrei, kai epi tau gēau sunochas ethneiu …… in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among …

astrem1×

Acts 7:43… tan skēnan tou Moloch kai tem astrem tou theou Raifan, toin tupoin hoin …… the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols …