noun · masculine

biastos

Greekβιαστής (biastēs)

Strong’sG973

a forceful, violent man

stem biast-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

violent1×

What it means

*† βιαστής, -οῦ, ὁ (< βιάζω), late form of βιατάς;

1. strong, forceful.

2. violent (Philo): Mt 11:12 (v.s. βιάζω).†

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

Strong’s G973 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidbee-as-tace'

a forcer, i.e. (figuratively) energetic

Fromfrom G971;

King Jamesviolent.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	biastos	biastois1×βιασταὶ
object accusative	biaston	biastoin
direct address vocative	biastor	biastoir
of, belonging to genitive	biastou	biastoiu
to, for dative	biasto	biastoi

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

biaststem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

biasto 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

biastois“violent”subjectnominative plural1×

Matthew 11:12“violent”apo de taiu hēmeraiu Iōannou tou baptistou heōs arti tas basileias toiu ouranoiu biazetō, kai biastois harpazalō autan.From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subject to violence, and the violent lay claim to it.