noun · feminine
desmas
Strong’sG1197
a bundle
stem desm-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.
δέσμη (Rec. δεσμή), -ης, ἡ
(< δέω), [in LXX for אֲגֻדָּה, Ex 12:22 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1197 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddes-may'
a bundle
Fromfrom G1196;
King Jamesbundle.
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
package, bundle, Test. cited in Refs 4th c.BC+
2 a measure in Egypt, φοινίκων Refs 2nd c.AD+
2.b in Medicine, handful, Refs 2nd 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 | desmas | desmais |
| object accusative | desman | desmain1×δέσμας |
| direct address vocative | desmar | desmair |
| of, belonging to genitive | desmau | desmaiu |
| to, for dative | desma | desmai |
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
desma 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
desmain“bundles”objectaccusative plural1×
Matthew 13:30… teim zizanieim kai davar auteim eis desmain pros tem katakaiara auteim, ton de …… the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the …