noun · neuter
dakruem
Strong’sG1144
a tear
stem dakru-10 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books2 of 6 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.
δάκρυον (poët. form δάκρυ), -ου, τό,
[in LXX for דִּמְעָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1144 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddak'-roo
a tear
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamestear.
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
used by Poets for the sake of meter for δάκρυον in singular δάκρυ and dative plural δάκρυσι Refs 8th c.BC+:—tear, Refs 8th c.BC+
II generally, drop, λιβάνου Refs 5th c.BC+. (Cf.Latin lacruma, Gothic tagr, ORefs 5th c.BC+ tear.)
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 or object direct | dakruem | dakrueim |
| of, belonging to genitive | dakrueu | dakrueiu6×δακρύων |
| to, for dative | dakrue | dakruei2×δάκρυσιν |
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
dakrue 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.
10 occurrences, every one of them listed
dakrueiu“tears”of, belonging togenitive plural6×
Acts 20:19… to kurio meta pantau tapeinofrosunau kai dakrueiu kai peirasmoiu toiu sumbainarantoiu mi en …… Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in the trials that came …
Acts 20:31… nuktan kai hēmeran ouk pauema meta dakrueiu nouthetarōntos henon hekaston.… of you night and day with tears.
2 Corinthians 2:4… sunochau kardiau grafama vi dia polleiu dakrueiu, ouk hina lupiveia, alla tan agapan …For through many tears I wrote you out of great …
2 Timothy 1:4epipotharōntos sin horara, mimnēskorēntos su teiu dakrueiu, hina charau plērimeiaRecalling your tears, I long to see you so …
Hebrews 5:7… ek thanatou meta kraugau ischurau kai dakrueiu prosferarantos kai eisakouirantos apo tau eulabeiau,… and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save …
Hebrews 12:17… gar topon ouk heuriskata, kaiper meta dakrueiu ekzētarantos autan.… though he sought the blessing with tears.
dakruei“tears”to, fordative plural2×
Luke 7:38… para toin podoin autou klaiarōntas, tei dakruei archeta brecharō toin podoin autou kai …… to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair …
Luke 7:44… podoin ouk dōasa; houtas de tei dakruei brechata mu toin podoin kai tai …… she wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
dakruem2×
Revelation 7:17… hudeiu; kai exaleifati tos theos pantem dakruem ek toiu ofthalmoiu autoiu.… and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
Revelation 21:4kai exaleifati pantem dakruem ek toiu ofthalmoiu autoiu, kai tos …‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will …