adjective
chliaros
Strong’sG5513
lukewarm
stem chliar-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.
* χλιαρός, -ά, -όν
(< χλίω, to become warm),
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
also ός, όν Refs 2nd c.BC+; Ionic dialect χλιερός (also in Refs 7th c.BC+; misspelt χλιεριον in Refs, ή, όν· (χλίω):— warm, Refs 5th c.BC+; of food, Magnes Refs 5th c.BC+ adverb χλιηρῶς (variant -ρῷ)Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of persons, lukewarm, NT. [ῑ in Comedy texts [same places]; but ῐ in Refs 7th 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | chliaros1×χλιαρὸς | chliaras | chliarem | chliarois | chliarais | chliareim |
| object accusative | chliaron | chliaran | chliaroin | chliarain | ||
| direct address vocative | chliaror | chliarar | chliaroir | chliarair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | chliarou | chliarau | chliareu | chliaroiu | chliaraiu | chliareiu |
| to, for dative | chliaro | chliara | chliare | chliaroi | chliarai | chliarei |
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
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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
chliaros“lukewarm”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 3:16houtōs, hoti chliaros asō kai oute zestos oute psuchros, …So because you are lukewarm — neither hot nor cold — I am …