adjective
biaias
Strong’sG972
strong, violent
stem biai-once in the New Testament1 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.
βίαιος, -α, -ον
(< βία), [in LXX for אָנַשׁ, עַז, צַר, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G972 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbee'-ah-yos
violent
Fromfrom G970;
King Jamesmighty.
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
also ος, ον Refs 5th c.BC+: (βία):— forcible, violent: adjective once in Refs 8th c.BC+, adverb twice, by force, perforce, κατέδουσι βιαίως οἶκον Ὀδυσσῆος Refs; frequently in all writers, ἔργα β. Refs 6th c.BC+; of persons, βιαιότατος τῶν πολιτῶν Refs 5th c.BC+; β. θάνατος a violent death, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁ πόλεμος β. διδάσκαλος teaches by violence, Refs 5th c.BC+; δίκη βιαίων an action for forcible rescue, Refs 1st c.AD+; τοῖς β. or τῶν βιαίων ἔνοχος, Refs 5th c.BC+; βιαίων [ἐγκαλεῖ] Refs 4th c.BC+, obligationes ex delicto, Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb βιαίως, ἀποθανεῖν Refs 5th c.BC+; β. σέλμα σεμνὸν ἡμένων in their irresistible might, Refs 4th c.BC+; χαλεπῶς καὶ β. by struggling and forcing their way, Refs 5th c.BC+; firmly, σχεδίας β. ζεύξαντες Refs 2nd c.BC+: neuter plural as adverb, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 especially of magic, β. τέχνη Refs 2nd c.AD+ adverb βιαίως, σοφός a wizard, Refs
II passive, forced, constrained, opposed to ἑκούσιος, πράξεις Refs 5th c.BC+; β. κίνησις, ={παρὰ φύσιν κ}., Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ β., ={οὗ ἔξωθεν ἡ ἀρχὴ μηδὲν συμβαλλομένου τοῦ βιασθέντος} Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ β. τροφή, of the diet of athletes, Refs; ὁ χρημ.ατιστὴς (i.e. βίος) β. τίς ἐστιν, Refs 4th c.AD+ adverb -ως, ={παρὰ φύσιν, κινεῖσθαι} Refs 4th c.BC+: comparative -οτέρωςRefs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 ={βιαιοθάνατος}, 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | biaios | biaias | biaiem | biaiois | biaiais | biaieim |
| object accusative | biaion | biaian | biaioin | biaiain | ||
| direct address vocative | biaior | biaiar | biaioir | biaiair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | biaiou | biaiau1×βιαίας | biaieu | biaioiu | biaiaiu | biaieiu |
| to, for dative | biaio | biaia | biaie | biaioi | biaiai | biaiei |
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
biai 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
biaiau“violent”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 2:2“violent”… tou ouranou ēchos hōsper ferorōntau pnoau biaiau kai plērata holon ton oikon hou …Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were …