chalkos

Strong’sG5475

copper, brass, money

stem chalk-5 times in the New Testamentin 4 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.

χαλκός, -οῦ, ὁ

[in LXX chiefly for נְחֹשֶׁת;]

copper: I Co 13:1, Re 18:12; by meton., of copper coin, Mt 10:9, Mk 6:8 12:41.†

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

Strong’s G5475 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkhal-kos'

copper (the substance, or some implement or coin made of it)

Fromperhaps from G5465 through the idea of hollowing out as a vessel (this metal being chiefly used for that purpose);

King Jamesbrass, money.

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

χαλκός,
Cretan dialect καυχός Refs 3rd c.BC+, ὁ:— copper, χ. ἐρυθρός Refs 8th c.BC+; and of the ornaments of a house, χαλκοῦ τε στεροπήν Refs 8th c.BC+; of copper as the first metal that men learnt to smelt and work, τῶν δ᾽ ἦν χάλκεα μὲν τεύχεα, χάλκεοι δέ τε οἶκοι, χαλκῷ δ᾽ εἰργάζοντο, μέλας δ᾽ οὐκ ἔσκε σίδηρος Refs 8th c.BC+; χ. ἐρυθρός (compare above) Refs 5th c.BC+; alloyed with tin to form bronze, the usual meaning of the word in Refs 8th c.BC+ and frequently in later writers: σίδηρος δὲ καὶ χ. πολέμων ὄργανα Refs 5th c.BC+
II in Poets frequently for anything made of metal, especially of arms (hence Refs 5th c.BC+ the proper epithet of iron, Refs; of offensive arms, ὀξέϊ χαλκῷ, νηλέϊ χ., of a spear, a sword, Refs 8th c.BC+; of a knife, Refs; of an axe, Refs 8th c.BC+; of a fish-hook, Refs 8th c.BC+; of defensive arms, as the plates laid on a shield, Refs; χαλκὸν ζώννυσθαι, of a warrior girding on his armour,Refs; of both combined, πλάγχθη δ᾽ ἀπὸ χαλκόφι χαλκός the spear of bronze glanced off the helm of bronze, Refs
II.2 of vessels, copper, cauldron, urn,Refs 8th c.BC+; of a cinerary urn, Refs 5th c.BC+; collectively of bronze plate, χ. μυρίος, Refs 8th c.BC+; used in payment of ransom, Refs 8th c.BC+
II.3 of a bronze mirror, Refs 4th c.BC+; used as a burning-glass, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.4 collectively, copper money, NT+4th c.BC+; generally, money, opposed to κύαμοι, Refs 3rd c.AD+; χαλκοῦ σπάνις MenRefs
II.5 ={χάλκωμα}, bronze plate or tablet, τὰν προξενίαν γράψαντας εἰς χαλκὸν ἀνθέμεν Refs 4th c.BC+; οὐετρανοὶ οἱ χωρὶς χαλκῶν, who have not received bronze copies of the privileges granted on discharge, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.6 a weight, 1/8 obol, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III χαλκοῦ ἄνθος, particles thrown off by copper when cooling, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.b χαλκοῦ λεπίς, small pieces that scale off under the hammer, Refsgeležìs 'iron'.)

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.

money2×bronze1×copper1×gong1×

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	chalkos1×χαλκὸς	chalkois
object accusative	chalkon3×χαλκὸν	chalkoin
direct address vocative	chalkor	chalkoir
of, belonging to genitive	chalkou1×χαλκοῦ	chalkoiu
to, for dative	chalko	chalkoi

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

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

chalko 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.

5 occurrences, every one of them listed

chalkos“gong”subjectnominative singular1×

1 Corinthians 13:1… angeloiu, agapan de mē echameiō, genamē chalkos ēcharōntos ē kumbalem alalazarōntem.… love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

chalkon“money”objectaccusative singular3×

Matthew 10:9mē kteveia chruson mēde arguron mēde chalkon eis tain zōnain vu,… along any gold or silver or copper in your belts.

Mark 6:8… mē pēran, mē eis tan zōnan chalkon,… journey — no bread, no bag, no money in their belts —

Mark 12:41… gazofulakieu theōrate pōs tos ochlos balatō chalkon eis tem gazofulakiem; kai pollois plousiois …… treasury, He watched the crowd putting money into it. And many rich people …

chalkou“bronze”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Revelation 18:12… pantem skevem ek xuleu timiotateu kai chalkou kai sidērou kai marmarou,… every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;