noun · masculine
boanērges
Strong’sG993
Boanerges
stem boanērge-once in the New Testament1 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.
Βοανηργές, indecl. (on the derivation, v. Dalman, Gr., 144; Words, 42; Swete, Mk., l.c.; DCG, i, 216),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G993 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbo-an-erg-es'
sons of commotion; Boanerges, an epithet of two of the apostles
Fromof Chaldee origin ( and );
King JamesBoanerges.
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
Boanerges:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
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 | boanērges | boanērges |
| object accusative | boanērges | boanērges1×Βοανηργές |
| direct address vocative | boanērges | boanērges |
| of, belonging to genitive | boanērges | boanērges |
| to, for dative | boanērges | boanērges |
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
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
boanērges“Boanerges”objectaccusative plural1×
Mark 3:17… tou Iakōbou kai epitithata autoi onomeim Boanērges, hem atō Huiois Brontau,… his brother John ( whom He named Boanerges, meaning “Sons of Thunder”),