choinixas

Strong’sG5518

a Greek dry measure

stem choinix-2 times in the New Testament2 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.

χοῖνιξ, -ικος, ἡ

[in LXX: Ez 45:10, 11 (בַּת) *;]

a chænix, a dry measure of rather less than a quart: Re 6:6 (EV, measure).†

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

Strong’s G5518 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkhoy'-nix

a chœnix or certain dry measure

Fromof uncertain derivation;

King Jamesmeasure.

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

χοῖνιξ, ῐκος, ἡ,
choenix, a dry measure, especially for corn, Refs 5th c.BC+; the choenix of corn was one man's daily allowance, Refs 3rd c.AD+; given to slaves, Refs 5th c.BC+; hence, ὅς κεν ἐμῆς γε χοίνικος ἅπτηται, i. e. whoever eats of my bread, Refs 8th c.BC+ i. e. sit idle, live in idleness, Refs 4th c.BC+; οὐδὲ τὴν χ. ἔτι λήψει (of gold) Refs 5th c.BC+; in Papyrus usually abbreviated χ, as in Refs 3rd c.BC+
II from the like ness of shape, a kind of stocks for fastening the legs, Refs 5th c.BC+
III ={χοινικίς} VI, Refs 3rd 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.

quart1×quarts1×

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	choinixas1×Χοῖνιξ	choinixais1×χοίνικες
object accusative	choinixan	choinixain
direct address vocative	choinixar	choinixair
of, belonging to genitive	choinixau	choinixaiu
to, for dative	choinixa	choinixai

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

choinixstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

choinixa 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

choinixas“quart”subjectnominative singular1×

Revelation 6:6… en mese teiu tessares zōeiu legarōntan; Choinixas sitou dēnarieu, kai treis choinixais krithaiu …… the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and …

choinixais“quarts”subjectnominative plural1×

Revelation 6:6… legarōntan; Choinixas sitou dēnarieu, kai treis choinixais krithaiu dēnarieu; kai tem elaiem kai …… wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and …