noun · neuter
dermem
Strong’sG1192
a hide, skin
stem derm-once in the New Testament1 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.
δέρμα, -τος, τό
(< δέρω), [in LXX for עוֹר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1192 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidder'-mah
a hide
Fromfrom G1194;
King Jamesskin.
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
(δέρω) skin, hide, συός Refs 8th c.BC+; λέοντος a lion's skin for a cloak, Refs 8th c.BC+; of skins prepared for bags, bottles, etc., Refs 8th c.BC+; of a man's skin, Refs 8th c.BC+; of a man's skin stripped off, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the shell of a tortoise, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 skin of fruits, Refs 4th c.BC+; περικαρπίων δέρματα outer coverings of seed-vessels, Refswallet, scrip, Refs 5th c.AD+
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 | dermem | dermeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | dermeu | dermeiu |
| to, for dative | derme | dermei1×δέρμασιν |
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
derme 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
dermei“skins,”to, fordative plural1×
Hebrews 11:37“skins,”… apothnēskala, perierchala en mēlōtai, en aigeiei dermei, husterorōntois, thliborōntois, kakouchorōntois,… were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.