brochos

Strong’sG1029

a noose or snare

stem broch-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.

βρόχος, -ου, ὁ,

[in LXX: Pr 6:5 (יָד) 7:21 (חֵלֶק) 22:25 (מֹוקֵשׁ), III Mac 4:8 *;]

a noose, a slip-knot, a halter: metaph., a restraint (not, as AV, R, txt., a snare): I Co 7:35.†

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

Strong’s G1029 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidbrokh'-os

a noose

Fromof uncertain derivation;

King Jamessnare.

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

βρόχος, ὁ,
noose, slip-knot, Refs 8th c.BC+; snare for birds, Refs 5th c.BC+; mesh of a net, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν βρόχῳ τὸν τράχηλον ἔχων νομοθετεῖν 'with a halter round one's neck', Refs 4th c.BC+ should be written in Refs 6th c.BC+

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.

restraint1×

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	brochos	brochois
object accusative	brochon1×βρόχον	brochoin
direct address vocative	brochor	brochoir
of, belonging to genitive	brochou	brochoiu
to, for dative	brocho	brochoi

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

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

brocho 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.

brochas — βροχή, a heavy rain

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

brochon“restraint”objectaccusative singular1×

1 Corinthians 7:35“restraint”… vu autoiu sumforem legamō, ouk hina brochon vi epibalameia, alla pros tem euschēmōnem …… this for your own good, not to restrict you, but in order to promote proper decorum and …