noun · masculine
autoptos
Greekαὐτόπτης (autoptēs)
Strong’sG845
an eye-witness
stem autopt-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
* αὐτόπτης, -ου, ὁ,
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
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | autoptos | autoptois1×αὐτόπται |
| object accusative | autopton | autoptoin |
| direct address vocative | autoptor | autoptoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | autoptou | autoptoiu |
| to, for dative | autopto | autoptoi |
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
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 plural1×
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.