austēros

Strong’sG840

grim, severe, strict, exacting

stem austēr-2 times 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.

** αὐστηρός, -ά, -όν

(< αὔω, to dry up), [in LXX: II Mac 14:30*;]

prop., stringent, harsh to the taste. Metaph., in Inscr., of a rough country; of disposition and manners, strict, severe (as in π., of an inspector; MM, s v): Lk 19:21, 22.†

SYN.: σκληρός (Tr., § xiv).

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

Strong’s G840 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidow-stay-ros'

rough (properly as a gale), i.e. (figuratively) severe

Fromfrom a (presumed) derivative of the same as G109 (meaning blown);

King Jamesaustere.

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

αὐστηρός, ά, όν,
(αὕω) harsh, rough, bitter, ὕδωρRefs 5th c.BC+; οἶνος αὐ., opposed to γλυκύς, Refs 5th c.BC+; of country, rugged, τόποιRefs 1st c.BC+: metaphorically, harsh, crabbed, ποιητήςRefs 5th c.BC+; severe, unadorned, ἡ πραγματεία ἔχει αὐ. τιRefs 2nd c.BC+severe, Refs. adverb -ρῶς, κατεσκευάσθαιRefs 1st c.BC+
b in moral sense, rigorous, austere, Refs 4th c.BC+; αὐ. καὶ αὐθάδηςRefs 1st c.BC+, Vett. Val.75.11; strict, exacting, NT+2nd c.AD+; αὐστηρότερον, τό, excessive rigour, Refs 2nd c.AD+. adverb -ρῶςRefs 1st c.BC+ comparative -ότερον LXX

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.

harsh2×

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	austēros2×αὐστηρὸς	austēras	austērem	austērois	austērais	austēreim
object accusative	austēron	austēran		austēroin	austērain
direct address vocative	austēror	austērar		austēroir	austērair
of, belonging to genitive	austērou	austērau	austēreu	austēroiu	austēraiu	austēreiu
to, for dative	austēro	austēra	austēre	austēroi	austērai	austērei

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

austērstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

austēr 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.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

austēros“harsh”subjectnominative singular2×

Luke 19:21fobome gar sin hoti anthrōpos austēros asō, airasō hem ouk tithasa kai …… of you, because you are a harsh man. You withdraw what you did …

Luke 19:22… ponēror doulor; oidaselē hoti mis anthrōpos austēros amō, airarōntos hem ouk tithama kai …… you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not …