noun · masculine
chartos
Strong’sG5489
papyrus, paper
stem chart-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.
χάρτης, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX: Is 8:1 A, Je 43 (36):2, 6, 23 (מְגִלָּה) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5489 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhar'-tace
a sheet ("chart") of writing-material (as to be scribbled over)
Fromfrom the same as G5482;
King Jamespaper.
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
= {χαρτηρία}, papyrus, or a roll made thereof, χ. δύο LXX+5th c.BC+; ὥσπερ χάρτην εὐεργὸν εἰς ἀπολραφήν (of the soul at birth) Refs 4th c.BC+; χ. βασιλικοί, of the finest papyrus, Refs 2nd c.BC+; χ. κεκαυμένος used in Medicine, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, any leaf or thin plate, χ. μολύβδινοι sheets of lead, Refs 2nd 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.
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 | chartos | chartois |
| object accusative | charton | chartoin |
| direct address vocative | chartor | chartoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | chartou1×χάρτου | chartoiu |
| to, for dative | charto | chartoi |
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
charto 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
chartou“paper”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
2 John 1:12… echarōntos vi grafarō ouk boulima dia chartou kai melaneu, alla elpizamō genera pros …… prefer not to do so with paper and ink. Instead, I hope to …