noun · neuter
cheirografem
Strong’sG5498
a handwriting, bond
stem cheirograf-once in the New Testament0 of 6 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.
**† χειρόγραφος, -ον
(< χείρ, γράφω), [in LXX: To 5:3 9:2, 5 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5498 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhi-rog'-raf-on
something hand-written ("chirograph"), i.e. a manuscript (specially, a legal document or bond (figuratively))
Fromneuter of a compound of G5495 and G1125;
King Jameshandwriting.
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
written with the hand, holograph, manuscript, σύμβολον, ἀσφάλ[ε]ια, Refs 2nd c.AD+: hence χειρόγρᾰφον, τό, manuscript note, NT+2nd c.BC+
2 note of hand, bond, Refs 2nd c.BC+; also χειρόγρᾰφος, ὁ, Refs
II paroxytone, χειρογράφος [ᾰ], ὁ, clerk, amanuensis, Refs 1st 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 or object direct | cheirografem | cheirografeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | cheirografeu | cheirografeiu |
| to, for dative | cheirografe | cheirografei |
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
cheirografe 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
cheirografem1×
Colossians 2:14“record”exaleifarantos tem kata nu cheirografem tei dogmei hem ate hupenantiem ni, …… ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took …