automatas

Strong’sG844

of its own accord

stem automat-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.

αὐτόματος, -ον, and -η, -ον

(etym. doubtful; v. Boisacq, Prellwitz, s.v.), [in LXX, Le 25:5, 11, IV Ki 19:29 (סָפִיחַ), Jos 6:5, Jb 24:24, Wi 17:6*;]

1. of persons, acting of one's own will.

2. Of inanimate things and natural agencies, of itself, of its own accord: γῆ, Mk 4:28 (MM, s.v.); πύλη, Ac 12:10.†

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

Strong’s G844 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidow-tom'-at-os

self-moved ("automatic"), i.e. spontaneous

Fromfrom G846 and the same as G3155;

King Jamesof own accord, of self.

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

αὐτό-μᾰτος, η, ον,
Refs 8th c.BC+ and Attic dialect; ος, ον Refs 8th c.BC+.
1 of persons, acting of one's own will, of oneself, αὐ. δέ οἱ ἦλθεRefs 8th c.BC+
2 of inanimate things, self-acting, spontaneous, of the gates of Olympus, αὐτόμαται δὲ πύλαι μύκον οὐρανοῦRefs 8th c.BC+; of the tripods of Hephaistos, which ran of themselves, ὄφρα οἱ αὐτόματοι.. δυσαίατ᾽ ἀγῶναRefs 5th c.BC+marionettes, Refs 4th c.BC+ assim: generally, spontaneous, βίοςRefs 5th c.BC+
3 of natural agencies, ὁ ποταμὸς αὐ. ἐπελθών of itself, Refs 5th c.BC+; of plants, growing of themselves, αὐ. ἐκ τῆς γῆς γίνεταιRefs 5th c.BC+; of philosophers, αὐ. ἀναφύονταιRefs 5th c.BC+
4 of events, happening of themselves, without external agency, αὐ. δεσμὰ διελύθηRefs 5th c.BC+; αὐ. θάνατος natural death, Refs 4th c.BC+not to be accounted for externally, Refs 5th c.BC+; without visible cause, accidental, opposed to ἀπὸ πείρης, Refs 5th c.BC+
II αὐτόματον, τό, accident, τὸ αὐ. αἰτιᾶσθαιRefs 5th c.BC+; τῷ αὐ., opposed to τέχνῃ, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ Αὐ. personified, Refs 4th c.BC+
III adverb -τως, ={ἀπὸ ταὐτομάτου}, variant in Refs 5th c.BC+; of itself, κοχλίας αὐ. βαδίζωνRefs 2nd c.BC+ —also αὐτοματεί or -τί (which see).

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.

by itself2×

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	automatos	automatas2×αὐτομάτη	automatem	automatois	automatais	automateim
object accusative	automaton	automatan		automatoin	automatain
direct address vocative	automator	automatar		automatoir	automatair
of, belonging to genitive	automatou	automatau	automateu	automatoiu	automataiu	automateiu
to, for dative	automato	automata	automate	automatoi	automatai	automatei

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

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

automat 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

automatas“by itself”subjectnominative singular2×

Mark 4:28automatas tas gēas karpoforatō, prōtem chorton, eita …All by itself the earth produces a crop— first …

Acts 12:10… tan ferarōntan eis tan polan, hotinas automatas anoigita autoi, kai exercharantois proerchala ruman …… the city, which opened for them by itself. When they had gone outside and …