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noun · masculine

autoptos

Greekαὐτόπτης (autoptēs)

Strong’sG845

an eye-witness

stem autopt-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

eyewitnesses

What it means

* αὐτόπτης, -ου, ὁ,

an eye-witness: Lk 1:2.†

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

Strong’s G845 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidow-top'-tace

self-seeing, i.e. an eye-witness

Fromfrom G846 and G3700;

King Jameseye-witness.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativeautoptosautoptoisαὐτόπται
object accusativeautoptonautoptoin
direct address vocativeautoptorautoptoir
of, belonging to genitiveautoptouautoptoiu
to, for dativeautoptoautoptoi

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
autoptstem+ogender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

autopto 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

autoptois“eyewitnesses”subjectnominative plural

Luke 1:2“eyewitnesses”kathōs paradōala ni tois apo archau autoptois kai hupēretois gineratois tou logou,just as they were handed down to us by the initial eyewitnesses and servants of the word.