noun · masculine
deinos
Strong’sG1170
so and so, such a one
stem dein-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.
** δεῖνα, ὁ, ἡ, τό (gen. -νος, dat. -νι, acc. -να),
[in Aq.: Ru 4:1, I Ki 21:2 (3) (Sm. also), IV Ki 6:8 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1170 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddi'-nah
so and so (when the person is not specified)
Fromprobably from the same as G1171 (through the idea of forgetting the name as fearful, i.e. strange);
King Jamessuch a man.
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
genitive δεῖνος, dative δεῖνι, accusative δεῖνα: sometimes indeclinable (see. below): nominative δεῖν, ὁ, Refs 5th c.BC+:— such an one, so-and-so, always with Article, ὁ δεῖνα Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ δ., euphemistic for τὸ πέος, Refs 5th c.BC+ do you eat such a fish? Refs 4th c.BC+ mine or some other's, Refs 4th c.BC+
II τὸ δ. in Comedy texts as an interjection to express an idea which suddenly strikes one, by the way, mark you, 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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | deinos | deinois |
| object accusative | deinon1×δεῖνα | deinoin |
| direct address vocative | deinor | deinoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | deinou | deinoiu |
| to, for dative | deino | deinoi |
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
deino 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
deinon“certain man”objectaccusative singular1×
Matthew 26:18… Hupagavōr eis tan polan pros ton deinon kai legavar auto; Tos didaskalos legatō; …… Go into the city to a certain man and tell him that the Teacher …