daimōnos

Strong’sG1142

an evil-spirit, demon

stem daimōn-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.

δαίμων, -ονος, ὁ, ἡ

[in LXX for גַּד, Is 65:11 (א; δαιμονίῳ, AB) *;]

in cl. and NT = δαιμόνιον; a demon: Mt 8:31.†

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

Strong’s G1142 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiddah'-ee-mown

a dæmon or supernatural spirit (of a bad nature)

Fromfrom δαίω (to distribute fortunes);

King Jamesdevil.

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

δαίμων, ονος,
vocative δαίμων Refs 5th c.BC+, ὁ, ἡ, god, goddess, of individual gods or goddesses, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐμίσγετο δαίμονι δαίμων, of Φιλίη and Νεῖκος, Refs 5th c.BC+:—but more frequently of the Divine power (while θεός denotes a God in person), the Deity,Refs 8th c.BC+; πρὸς δαίμονα against the Divine power, Refs 8th c.BC+; κατὰ δαίμονα, almost, ={τύχῃ}, by chance, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄμαχος δ., i. e. Destiny, Refs 5th c.BC+ what the Gods ordain, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 the power controlling the destiny of individuals: hence, one's lot or forlune, δτυγερὸς δέ οἱ ἔχραε δ. Refs 8th c.BC+; δαίμονα δώσω I will deal thee fate, i.e. kill thee, Refs; frequently in Trag. of good or ill fortune, ὅταν ὁ δ. εὐροῇ Refs 5th c.BC+; personified as the good or evil genius of a family or person, δ. τῷπλεισθενιδῶν Refs 5th c.BC+
II δαίμονες, οἱ, souls of men of the golden age, acting as tutelary deities, Refs 8th c.BC+; τὸν τὲ δ. Δαρεῖον ἀγκαλεῖσθε, of the deified Darius, Refs 4th c.BC+; νῦν δ᾽ ἐστὶ μάκαιρα δ., of Alcestis, Refs 5th c.BC+: later, of departed souls, Refs 2nd c.AD+; δαίμοσιν εὐσεβέσιν, = Dis Manibus, Refs; so θεοὶ δ., Refsghost, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 generally, spiritual or semi-divine being inferior to the Gods, Refs 1st c.AD+; especially evil spirit, demon, NT+1st c.AD+; δαίμονος ἔσοδος εἰς τὸν ἄνθρωπον, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.3 ἀγαθὸς δ. the Good Genius to whom a toast was drunk after dinner, Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.; of Nero, ἀ. δ. τῆς οἰκουμένης Refs; of the Nile, ἀ. δ. ποταμόςRefs 1st c.AD+; of the tutelary genius of individuals (above 1), ἀ. δ. Ποσειδωνίου Refs = Latin Di Manes, Refs 4th c.AD+
B ={δαήμων}, knowing, δ. μάχης skilled in fight, Refs 7th c.BC+, suggests this as the originally sense; while others would write δαήμονες in Refs 7th c.BC+, and get rid of this sense altogether; compare however αἵμων. More probably the Root of δαίμων (deity) is δαίω to distribute destinies;;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.

demons1×

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	daimōnos	daimōnois1×δαίμονες
object accusative	daimōnon	daimōnoin
direct address vocative	daimōnor	daimōnoir
of, belonging to genitive	daimōnou	daimōnoiu
to, for dative	daimōno	daimōnoi

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

daimōnstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

daimōno 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

daimōnois“demons”subjectnominative plural1×

Matthew 8:31tois de daimōnois parakalale auton legarōntois; Ei ekbalasō nin, …So the demons begged Jesus, “If You drive us …