adjective
autocheiros
Strong’sG849
with one's own hand
stem autocheir-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.
* αὐτό-χειρ, -ρος, ὁ, ἡ
(< αὐτός, χείρ),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G849 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
with one's own hand, creative, Refs 4th c.BC+; αὐ. λούειν, παίειν, κτείνειν, NT+5th c.BC+: with genitive, very doer, per-petrator of a thing, αὐ. τοῦδε τοῦ τάφουRefs 5th c.BC+; τῆς ἀσελγείας ταύτηςRefs 4th c.BC+; αὐ. οὔτε τῶν ἀγαθῶν οὔτε τῶν κακῶν men who accomplish neither.., Refs 5th c.BC+
II absolutely, one who kills himself, suicide, Refs 5th c.BC+; simply, murderer, Refs 5th c.BC+; αὐτὸν.. νομίζω αὐτόχειρά μου γεγενῆσθαι τούτοις τοῖς ἔργοις Refs 5th c.BC+
III as adjective, murderous, especially of murder committed by one's own hand or by kinsmen, αὐ. θάνατος, σφαγή, μοῖρα, Refs 5th c.BC+; πληγέντες αὐτόχειρι σὺν μιάσματι, of brothers smitten by mutual slaughter, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.2 αὐτόχειρα γράμματα written with one's own hand, autograph, Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | autocheiros | autocheiras | autocheirem | autocheirois1×αὐτόχειρες | autocheirais | autocheireim |
| object accusative | autocheiron | autocheiran | autocheiroin | autocheirain | ||
| direct address vocative | autocheiror | autocheirar | autocheiroir | autocheirair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | autocheirou | autocheirau | autocheireu | autocheiroiu | autocheiraiu | autocheireiu |
| to, for dative | autocheiro | autocheira | autocheire | autocheiroi | autocheirai | autocheirei |
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
autocheir 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
autocheirois“with their own hands”subjectnominative plural1×
Acts 27:19kai ta trita autocheirois tan skevan teu ploieu riptala.… they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.