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noun · feminine

desmas

Greekδέσμη (desmē)

Strong’sG1197

a bundle

stem desm-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

bundles

What it means

δέσμη (Rec. δεσμή), -ης, ἡ

(< δέω), [in LXX for אֲגֻדָּה, Ex 12:22 *;]

a bundle: δήσατε αὐτὰ εἰς δέσμας (D, Orig., omit εἰς, and Blass thinks original reading, δέσμας δέσμας; v. Deiss., LAE, 1254), Mt 13:30.†

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.

Every form

Job in the sentence caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativedesmasdesmais
object accusativedesmandesmainδέσμας
direct address vocativedesmardesmair
of, belonging to genitivedesmaudesmaiu
to, for dativedesmadesmai

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
desmstem+agender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

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

desmos — δεσμός, a bond, chaindesmem — δεσμόν, a bond, chain

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

desmain“bundles”objectaccusative plural

Matthew 13:30“bundles”afiēkavar sunauxanirō amfotereim mechris tou therismou; kai en kairo tou therismou legami toi theristoi; Sullegavar prōtem teim zizanieim kai davar auteim eis desmain pros tem katakaiara auteim, ton de siton sunagavar eis tan apothēkan mu.Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”