noun · masculine
daktulios
Strong’sG1146
a finger-ring
stem daktuli-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.
δακτύλιος, -ου, ὁ
(< δάκτυλος), [in LXX chiefly for טַבַּעַת;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1146 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddak-too'-lee-os
a finger-ring
Fromfrom G1147;
King Jamesring.
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
Boeotian dialect δακκύλιος (see. δάκτυλος), ὁ, ring, signet, Refs 7th c.BC+; ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ δ. keeper of the signet, LXX+3rd c.BC+; δ. φαρμακίτης Refs 5th c.BC+
II anything ringshaped, as,
II.1 felloe of a wheel, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 anus, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.3 plural, movable rings on a bit, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.4 stone to which mooring-cables were attached, Refs 5th c.AD+
II.5 door-handle, Refs
II.6 end of the steering-paddle, Refs
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 | daktulios | daktuliois |
| object accusative | daktulion1×δακτύλιον | daktulioin |
| direct address vocative | daktulior | daktulioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | daktuliou | daktulioiu |
| to, for dative | daktulio | daktulioi |
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
daktulio 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
daktulion“ring”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 15:22… prōtan kai enduavar auton, kai dōavar daktulion eis tan cheiran autou kai hupodēmeim …… put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on …