noun · masculine
batrachos
Strong’sG944
a frog
stem batrach-once in the New Testament1 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.
βάτραχος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX: Ex 8, Ps 77 (78):45 104 (105):30 (צְכַרִדֵּעַmisspelling of צְפַרְדֵּעַ n="H6854"), Wi 19:10*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G944 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbat'-rakh-os
a frog
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesfrog.
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
frog, Refs 5th c.BC+ a very frog to drink, Refs 4th c.BC+; βατράχοις οἰνοχοεῖν, of those who give what is not wanted, Refs 5th c.BC+; χλωρὸς β., of the tree-frog, Refs 4th c.BC+
II ={ἁλιεύς}, a kind of fish, fishing-frog or sea-angler, Lophius piscatorius, Refs 4th c.BC+
III frog of a horse's hoof, Refs: hence Astron., of the star β Centauri, Refs 1st c.BC+
IV ἐσχάρας εἶδος, Refs 5th c.AD+
V swelling under the tongue, Refs 6th c.AD+ —Dial. forms are cited by Grammars,
V.1 Ionic dialect βάθρακος, cited from Refs 8th c.BC+; Ionic dialect also βότραχος Refs 6th c.BC+
V.2 βράταχος Refs 5th c.AD+
V.3 Refs 5th c.AD+
V.4 Refs 6th c.BC+
V.5 Pontic βάβακος Refs
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 | batrachos | batrachois1×βάτραχοι |
| object accusative | batrachon | batrachoin |
| direct address vocative | batrachor | batrachoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | batrachou | batrachoiu |
| to, for dative | batracho | batrachoi |
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
batracho 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
batrachois“frogs”subjectnominative plural1×
Revelation 16:13… tou pseudoprofētou pneumeim treis akatharteim hōs batrachois;… three unclean spirits that looked like frogs coming out of the mouths of …