noun · feminine
bias
Strong’sG970
force, violence
stem bi-3 times in the New Testament2 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.
βία, -ας, ἡ,
[in LXX for פֶּרֶךְ, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G970 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbee'-ah
force
Fromprobably akin to G979 (through the idea of vital activity);
King Jamesviolence.
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
Ionic dialect βίη [ῐ], ἡ: Epic dialect dative βίηφι Refs 8th c.BC+:—bodily strength, force, Refs 8th c.BC+, periphrastic of strong men, βίη Ἡρακληείη Refs 8th c.BC+participle masculine πέρσας follows, compare Refs; βίη Ἐτεοκληείη, Ἰφικλείη,Refs 8th c.BC+: so in Lyric poetry and Trag., Πέλοπος βία Refs 5th c.BC+; Τυδέως βία, Πολυνείκους β., Refs 4th c.BC+; θήρειος β., ={Κένταυροι}, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 personified, Κράτος Βία τε Refs 4th c.BC+
3 of the mind, οὐκ ἔστι βίη φρεσίν Refs 8th c.BC+
3.b of an argument, βίαν οὐκ ἔχειν πρὸς [τὸ] ἀποδειξαι Refs 1st c.BC+
II act of violence, ὕβρις τε βίη τε Refs 8th c.BC+: mostly in plural, κείνων γε βίας ἀποτείσεαι Refs 8th c.BC+
II.2 βίᾳ τινός against one's will, in spite of him, Refs 5th c.BC+; β. alone as adverb, perforce, Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to κατὰ φύσιν, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἑκών, Refs 5th c.BC+; of Zeus, εὐμενεῖ βία κτίσας Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 in Attic dialect law, rape, βίας δίκη Refs 5th c.BC+
II.4 = Latin vis, βίας γραφή D C.37.31, compare 33; μαρτύρομαι τὴν βίαν Refs 3rd c.AD+. (Cf. Sanskrit jyā´ jiyā´ 'preponderating power', jināti 'oppress'.)
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 | bias | biais |
| object accusative | bian1×βίαν | biain |
| direct address vocative | biar | biair |
| of, belonging to genitive | biau2×βίας | biaiu |
| to, for dative | bia | biai |
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
bia 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
bian“violence”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 21:35… auton hupo toiu stratiōtoiu dia tan bian tou ochlou,… by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob.
biau“force”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Acts 5:26… toi hupēretoi agata autoin, ouk meta biau, fobole gar ton laon, mē lithazileia.… brought the apostles — but not by force, for fear the people would stone …
Acts 27:41“violence”… tas de prumnas luote hupo tau biau.… move, and the stern was being broken up by the pounding of …