belem

Strong’sG956

a missile, dart, javelin

stem bel-once in the New Testament0 of 6 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.

βέλος, -εος, τό

(< βάλλω), [in LXX chiefly for חֵץ;]

a missile, a dart: Eph 6:16.†

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

Strong’s G956 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidbel'-os

a missile, i.e. spear or arrow

Fromfrom G906;

King Jamesdart.

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

βέλος, εος, τό,
missile, especially arrow, dart, frequently in Refs 8th c.BC+; of the piece of rock hurled by the Cyclops, τόντονδε βαλὼν β. Refs 8th c.BC+; of an ox's leg thrown by one of the suitors at Ulysses, Refs; of a stool, Refs; ὑπὲκ βελέων out of the reach of darts, out of shot, Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to ἐντὸς βέλους, Refs 1st c.BC+
2 used of any weapon, as a sword, Refs 5th c.BC+; an axe, Refs 5th c.BC+; the sting of a scorpion, Refs 4th c.BC+; of the gad-fly, Refs
3 ἀγανὰ βέλεα of Apollo, Refs 8th c.BC+, denote sudden, easy death of men and women respectively; βέλος ὀξύ, of Ilithyia, pangs of childbirth, Refs 8th c.BC+
4 after Refs 8th c.BC+ of anything swift-darting, Διὸς βέλη the bolts of Zeus, lightnings, Refs 5th c.BC+; βέλεσι πυρπνόου ζάλης, of a storm,Refs 5th c.BC+ glance of the eye, Refs 4th c.BC+; φίλοικτον β. a piteous glance, Refs; ἱμέρου β. the shaft of love, Refs 5th c.BC+; of arguments, πᾶν τετόξευται β. Refs 5th c.BC+; β. τὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ στόματος, of invective, Refs 4th c.AD+; of mental anguish or fear, ἄτλατον β. Refs 5th c.BC+
5 engine of war, Refs 3rd c.BC+: plural, artillery, Refsgélti 'sting', gēla\ 'sharp pain', OHG.quelan 'feel sharp pain'. Root g[uglide]el- 'pierce', compare δέλλιθες.)

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

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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 or object direct	belem	beleim
of, belonging to genitive	beleu	beleiu
to, for dative	bele	belei

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

belstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

bele 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

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Ephesians 6:16… pistiau, en ho dunevi panteim teim beleim tou ponērou purorēnteim sbennuara;… you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.