belonas

Strong’sG4476

a needle

stem belon-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.

* βελόνη, -ῆς, ἡ

(< βέλος),

1. a sharp point, as of a spear.

2. a needle: Lk 18:25 (Rec. ῥαφίς, q.v.).†

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

Strong’s G4476 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhraf-ece'

perhaps rather akin to the base of G4474 through the idea of puncturing); a needle

Fromfrom a primary ῥάπτω (to sew;

King Jamesneedle.

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

ῥᾰφίς,
Doric dialect ῥᾰπίς Refs 5th c.BC+, ίδος, ἡ, (ῥάπτω) needle, Refs 5th c.BC+; διὰ τρυπήματος (variant{τρήματος}) ῥαφίδος διελθεῖν (variant{εἰσελθεῖν}) NT+2nd c.AD+
II garfish, Refs 5th c.BC+

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.

needle1×

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	belonas	belonais
object accusative	belonan	belonain
direct address vocative	belonar	belonair
of, belonging to genitive	belonau1×βελόνης	belonaiu
to, for dative	belona	belonai

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

belonstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

belona 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

belonau“needle”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Luke 18:25eukopoterem gar atō kamēlan dia trēmeu belonau eiserchara ē plousion eis tan basileian …… pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to …