noun · feminine
chiōnas
Strong’sG5510
snow
stem chiōn-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
χιών, -όνος, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for שֶׁלֶג also (in Da) for תְּלַג;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5510 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(see. entry near the end):— snow, in Refs 8th c.BC+ mostly of fallen snow, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐπὶ χιόνι πεσούσῃ Refs 5th c.BC+; also of falling snow, ὥς τε νιφάδες χιόνος πίπτωσι θαμειαί thick fall the snow-flakes, Refs 8th c.BC+
II snow-water, 'ice-coldwater, Θρῄκην χιόνι.. κατάρρυτον Refs 5th c.BC+; used to cool wine, εἰ χιών ἐστ᾽ ὠνία Refs 5th c.BC+: rare in plural, Refs 4th c.BC+. [ῐ by nature, ῑ Epic dialect for the sake of meter] (Cf. Sanskrit himás 'cold, winter', Latin hiems, Avest. zyam- 'winter', etc.)
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 | chiōnas2×χιών | chiōnais |
| object accusative | chiōnan | chiōnain |
| direct address vocative | chiōnar | chiōnair |
| of, belonging to genitive | chiōnau | chiōnaiu |
| to, for dative | chiōna | chiōnai |
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
chiōna 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
chiōnas“snow”subjectnominative singular2×
Matthew 28:3… kai tem endumem autou leukem hōs chiōnas.… and his clothes were white as snow.
Revelation 1:14… trichais leukais hōs eriem leukem, hōs chiōnas, kai tois ofthalmois autou hōs flogas …… white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a …