noun · masculine
brachionos
Strong’sG1023
the arm, strength
stem brachion-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 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.
βραχίων, -ὀνος, ὁ,
[in LXX, β. Κυρίου, freq. for זְרוֹעַ יהוָֹה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1023 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbrakh-ee'-own
the arm, i.e. (figuratively) strength
Fromproperly, comparative of G1024, but apparently in the sense of βράσσω (to wield);
King Jamesarm.
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 ῐ, Attic dialect ῑ], βράχιστος, comparative and superlative of βραχύς.
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 | brachionos1×βραχίων | brachionois |
| object accusative | brachionon | brachionoin |
| direct address vocative | brachionor | brachionoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | brachionou1×βραχίονος | brachionoiu |
| to, for dative | brachiono1×βραχίονι | brachionoi |
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
brachiono 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
brachionos“arm”subjectnominative singular1×
John 12:38… pisteuata ta akoa nu? kai tos brachionos kuriou tino apokaluptita?… message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
brachionou“arm”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 13:17… paroikia en gēa Aiguptau, kai meta brachionou hupsēlou exagata autoin ek autau,… in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that …
brachiono“arm”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 1:51Poiata kratem en brachiono autou, diaskorpizata huperēfanoin dianoia kardiau autoiu;… has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are …