noun · masculine
chalkevos
Strong’sG5471
a worker in brass or copper
stem chalkev-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.
χαλκεύς, -έως, ὁ
(< χαλκός), [in LXX for חָרָשׁ, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5471 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhalk-yooce'
a copper-worker or brazier
Fromfrom G5475;
King Jamescoppersmith.
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
plural χαλκεῖς, Attic dialect -ῆςRefs 5th c.BC+:—coppersmith, opposed to τέκτων (joiner, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 generally, worker in metal, of a goldsmith, Refs 8th c.BC+; of a worker in iron. Refs; hence later, blacksmith, smith (χαλκέας τοὺς τὸν σίδηρον ἐργαζομένους LXX+5th c.BC+
II John Dory, Zeus faber, Refs 4th c.BC+; distinguished from χαλκίς, Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | chalkevos1×χαλκεὺς | chalkevois |
| object accusative | chalkevon | chalkevoin |
| direct address vocative | chalkevor | chalkevoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | chalkevou | chalkevoiu |
| to, for dative | chalkevo | chalkevoi |
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
chalkevo 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
chalkevos“coppersmith”subjectnominative singular1×
2 Timothy 4:14Alexandros tos chalkevos polleim mi kakoseim endeiketa apodōati auto …Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The …