adjective
chrusouem
Strong’sG5552
golden
stem chrusou-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.
χρύσεος, -εα, -εον (-οῦς, -ῆ, -οῦν; on acc sing. fem., -ᾶν, Re 1:13 and gen. pl. uncontr., -εων, Re 2:1, LTr., v. M, Pr., 48 and cf. Thackeray, Gr., x, 172 f.)
(< χρυσός), [in LXX chiefly for זָהָב;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5552 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhroo'-seh-os
made of gold
Fromfrom G5557;
King Jamesof gold, golden.
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 ος, ον in Refs 1st c.BC+, Attic dialect contraction χρυσοῦς, ῆ, οῦν Refs; Epic dialect χρύσειος, η, ον: Refs 8th c.BC+; Lyric poetry used χρύσεος, α, ον, and this form sometimes occurs in Trag. dialogue and even in Prose, as Refs 5th c.BC+; Aeolic dialect χρύσιος Refs 7th c.BC+ (but χρύσεα Refs 3rd c.BC+; Boeotian dialect χρούσιος Refs 4th c.BC+: (χρυσός):—golden, frequently in Epic dialect, especially of what belonged to gods, χρυσέῳ ἐν δαπέδῳ, χρυσέοις δεπάεσσι, χρύσειον ἐπὶ θρόνον, etc., Refs 8th c.BC+; χ. τάλαντα the golden scales of Zeus, Refs; ζώνη χ., of Calypso and Circe, Refs 8th c.BC+; δόμος Refs 7th c.BC+ [prev. cited]; of possessions of mortals, Refs 8th c.BC+: sometimes enriched or adorned with gold, χ. σκῆπτρον Refs 8th c.BC+; κλῖναι, κρητῆρες, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἕστηκε.. Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ χ., of a statue, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 χρύσεια μέταλλα gold-mines, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 χρυσοῦς (i.e. στατήρ), ὁ, a gold coin, ={στατήρ}, LXX+3rd c.BC+ (in Papyrus, not a coin, but the equivalent of Refs 3rd c.BC+; χρυσοῖ ἐπίσημοι Refs 2nd c.BC+
4 χρύσεον, τό, gold plaque, Refs 5th c.BC+
II gold-coloured, golden-yellow, ἔθειραι Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀέρος κόμαι Refs 5th c.BC+; τῶν τὰ χρυσᾶ the yolks of eggs, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III metaphorically, golden, χρυσέη Ἀφροδίτη Refs 8th c.BC+; τιμή Refs 5th c.BC+; χ. γένος ἀνθρώπων, of the Refs 8th c.BC+
III.b sometimes used ironically, ἐγὼ δὲ ὁ χ. but I, fine fellow that I am.., Refs 2nd c.AD+; Πλάτωνα χρυσοῦν (i.e. Ἐπίκουρος ἐκάλει) Refs 3rd c.BC+
III.2 wealthy, Refs 8th c.BC+ must be pronounced as disyllable, as is fully proved by such passages as Refs 8th c.BC+; so also Trag., but only in Lyric poetry, not in Iambics or Anapaestics, Refs 5th 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 | chrusouos | chrusouas | chrusouem | chrusouois | chrusouais | chrusoueim1×χρυσᾶ |
| object accusative | chrusouon | chrusouan | chrusouoin | chrusouain | ||
| direct address vocative | chrusouor | chrusouar | chrusouoir | chrusouair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | chrusouou | chrusouau | chrusoueu | chrusouoiu | chrusouaiu | chrusoueiu |
| to, for dative | chrusouo | chrusoua | chrusoue | chrusouoi | chrusouai | chrusouei |
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
chrusou 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
chrusoueim“gold”subject or objectdirect plural1×
2 Timothy 2:20… de oikia ouk atō monem skeveim chrusoueim kai arguroueim alla kai xulineim kai …… house contains not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood …