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adjective

chliaros

Greekχλιαρός (chliaros)

Strong’sG5513

lukewarm

stem chliar-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

lukewarm

What it means

* χλιαρός, -ά, -όν

(< χλίω, to become warm),

warm, tepid; metaph., of persons, luke-warm: Re 3:16.†

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

Strong’s G5513 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkhlee-ar-os'

tepid

Fromfrom χλίω (to warm);

King Jameslukewarm.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence casemasculine singularfeminine singularneuter singularmasculine pluralfeminine pluralneuter plural
subject nominativechliarosχλιαρὸςchliaraschliaremchliaroischliaraischliareim
object accusativechliaronchliaranchliaroinchliarain
direct address vocativechliarorchliararchliaroirchliarair
of, belonging to genitivechliarouchliarauchliareuchliaroiuchliaraiuchliareiu
to, for dativechliarochliarachliarechliaroichliaraichliarei

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
chliarstem+oaegender+smnruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

chliar 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

chliaros“lukewarm”subjectnominative singular

Revelation 3:16“lukewarm”houtōs, hoti chliaros asō kai oute zestos oute psuchros, mellamō sin emara ek teu stomeu mu.So because you are lukewarm — neither hot nor cold — I am about to vomit you out of My mouth!