beltiem

Strong’sG957

better

stem belti-once in the New Testament0 of 26 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.

βελτίων, -ον (gen. -ονος), comp. of ἀγαθός,

[in LXX chiefly for טוֹב;]

neut. as adv., better, very well: II Ti 1:18 (also Ac 10:28 D). On elative use in these passages, v. M, Pr., 78, 236.†

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

Strong’s G957 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidbel-tee'-on

better

Fromneuter of a compound of a derivative of G906 (used for the comparative of G18);

King Jamesvery well.

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

βελτ-ίων, ον,
genitive ονος, comparative of ἀγαθός, better (not in Refs 8th c.BC+ it is fitting, conuenient, Refs 4th c.BC+; μανθάνειν βελτίονα [Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπὶ τὸ β. χωρεῖν improve, advance, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄγεινRefs 4th c.BC+. adverb βελτιόνως, ἔχειν Refs 5th c.BC+. [ῑ Attic dialect, but βέλτῐον Refs 6th 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.

very well1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	beltios	beltias	beltiem	beltiois	beltiais	beltieim
object accusative	beltion	beltian		beltioin	beltiain
direct address vocative	beltior	beltiar		beltioir	beltiair
of, belonging to genitive	beltiou	beltiau	beltieu	beltioiu	beltiaiu	beltieiu
to, for dative	beltio	beltia	beltie	beltioi	beltiai	beltiei

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

beltistem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

belti 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

beltiem1×

2 Timothy 1:18… hēmera kai hoseim en Efesa diakonata, beltiem sis gnōskasō.… mercy on that day. You know very well how much he ministered to me …