noun · feminine
axinas
Strong’sG513
an axe
stem axin-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 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.
ἀξίνη, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX for גַּרְזֶן, קַרְדֹּם;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G513 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidax-ee'-nay
compare G4486); an axe
Fromprobably from ἄγνυμι (to break;
King Jamesaxe.
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
axe-head, ἀξίνην ἐΰχαλκον ἐλαΐνῳ ἀμφὶ πελέκκῳRefs 8th c.BC+
2 battle-axe (explanation as δίστομος πέλεκυς by Refs 5th c.BC+
3 axe for hewing wood, NT+5th c.BC+. (Cf. Gothic aqizi, ORefs 5th c.BC+ æx, Latin ascia (from *acsia).)
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | axinas2×ἀξίνη | axinais |
| object accusative | axinan | axinain |
| direct address vocative | axinar | axinair |
| of, belonging to genitive | axinau | axinaiu |
| to, for dative | axina | axinai |
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
axina 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
axinas“ax”subjectnominative singular2×
Matthew 3:10“ax”ēdē de tas axinas pros tan rizan teiu dendreiu keiotō; …The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every …
Luke 3:9“ax”ēdē de kai tas axinas pros tan rizan teiu dendreiu keiotō; …The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree …