adjective
auchmēros
Strong’sG850
dingy, dusky, obscure, dark, funereal
stem auchmēr-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.
* αὐχμηρός, -ά, -όν
(< αὐχμός, drought);
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G850 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidowkh-may-ros'
properly, dirty, i.e. (by implication) obscure
Fromfrom αὐχμός (probably from a base akin to that of G109) (dust, as dried by wind);
King Jamesdark.
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
dry, without rain, χειμώνRefs 5th c.BC+; of places, dry, parched, τόποιNT+5th c.BC+
b parching, νόσοιRefs 5th c.BC+
2 dry, rough, squalid, οὖδαςRefs 5th c.BC+; especially of hair (compare {αὐχμηροκόμης}), Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb -ρῶς, ἔχειν τοῦ προσώπουRefs 2nd c.AD+
3 miserable, Refs 4th c.AD+ uncertain reading in 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | auchmēros | auchmēras | auchmērem | auchmērois | auchmērais | auchmēreim |
| object accusative | auchmēron | auchmēran | auchmēroin | auchmērain | ||
| direct address vocative | auchmēror | auchmērar | auchmēroir | auchmērair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | auchmērou | auchmērau | auchmēreu | auchmēroiu | auchmēraiu | auchmēreiu |
| to, for dative | auchmēro1×αὐχμηρῷ | auchmēra | auchmēre | auchmēroi | auchmērai | auchmērei |
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
auchmēr 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
auchmēro“dark”to, fordative singular1×
2 Peter 1:19… poiavō prosecharōntois hōs luchno fanarōnto en auchmēro topo, heōs hou hēmeras diaugazateia kai …… to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and …