noun · feminine
chloas
Strong’sG5514
Chloe
stem chlo-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.
Χλόη, -ης, ἡ
(i.e. tender foliage),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5514 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhlo'-ay
"green"; Chloë, a Christian female
Fromfeminine of apparently a primary word;
King JamesChloe.
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
Ionic dialect χλοίη Refs 5th c.BC+; Doric dialect χλόα, ας Refs 5th c.BC+:— the first green shoot of plants in spring, ναὶ μὰ μήκωνος χλόην Refs 7th c.BC+; especially young green corn or grass, Refs 5th c.BC+ [same place]; opposed to καρποί, Refs 5th c.BC+; χλόης γενομένης ἀπὸ τοῦ σπέρματος, of the corn when it first springs up, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν τῇ χ., opposed to ἐν τοῖς σπέρμασιν, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 poetry, young verdure of trees, foliage, χ. ἀμπέλου Refs 5th c.BC+
3 juice of green shoots, χ. ἐλαίας Refs 2nd c.BC+ is probably falsa lectio for{σαύρου χολῇ} in Refs
4 vegetables, herbs, greens, Refs 4th c.BC+
II epithet of Demeter, Verdant, from the young corn, worshipped in Attica, Refs 3rd c.BC+; also Χλόη alone, Refs 5th c.BC+. (Perh. cognate with Lithuanian [zcirc]élti 'to be green, grow', Latin holus.)
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 | chloas | chloais |
| object accusative | chloan | chloain |
| direct address vocative | chloar | chloair |
| of, belonging to genitive | chloau1×Χλόης | chloaiu |
| to, for dative | chloa | chloai |
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
chloa 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
chloau“Chloe’s”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
1 Corinthians 1:11… peri vu, adelfoir mu, hupo toiu Chloau hoti eridais en vi alō.My brothers, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there …