noun · masculine

dexiolabos

Greekδεξιολάβος (dexiolabos)

Strong’sG1187

one posted on the right hand, a spear-man

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

Translated as

spearmen1×

What it means

* δεξιολάβος, -ου, ὁ

(< δεξιός, λαμβάνω),

a kind of soldier, prob. a spearman (Vg., lancearius) or slinger: Ac 23:23.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1187 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiddex-ee-ol-ab'-os

a guardsman (as if taking the right) or light-armed soldier

Fromfrom G1188 and G2983;

King Jamesspearman.

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 case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	dexiolabos	dexiolabois
object accusative	dexiolabon	dexiolaboin1×δεξιολάβους
direct address vocative	dexiolabor	dexiolaboir
of, belonging to genitive	dexiolabou	dexiolaboiu
to, for dative	dexiolabo	dexiolaboi

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

dexiolabstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

dexiolabo 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

dexiolaboin“spearmen”objectaccusative plural1×

Acts 23:23“spearmen”Kai proskaleratos tinoin duo toiu hekatontarchēoiu legata; Hetoimazavar stratiōtoin diakosioi hopōs poreuileia heōs Kaisareiau, kai hippevoin hebdomēkonta kai dexiolaboin diakosioi, apo tritau hōrau tau nuxau,Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the night.