noun · neuter
diadēmem
Strong’sG1238
a head-wreath, crown
stem diadēm-3 times 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.
διάδημα, -τος, τό
(< διαδέω, to bind round), [in LXX for כֶּתֶר (as Es 1:11), etc.;]
SYN.: στέφανος, the badge of "victory, of valour, of nuptial joy, of festal gladness " (but v. M, Th., i, 219; cf. DB, i, 530, 604).
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1238 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(διαδέω) band or fillet: especially band round the τιάρα worn by the Persian king, Refs 5th c.BC+; by his successors, Refs 2nd c.AD+; by kings generally, LXX+1st c.BC+
II Ὀσίριδος δ., ={ἅλιμος}, Ps.Refs 1st 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 | diadēmem | diadēmeim1×διαδήματα |
| of, belonging to genitive | diadēmeu | diadēmeiu |
| to, for dative | diadēme | diadēmei |
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
diadēme 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
diadēmeim“diadems”subject or objectdirect plural1×
Revelation 19:12“diadems”… pureu, kai epi tan kefalan autou diadēmeim polleim, echarōntos onomem graforēntem hem oudenos …… like blazing fire, and many royal crowns on His head. He has a name written on Him that only He …
diadēmeim2×
Revelation 12:3“diadems”… kai epi tain kefalain autou hepta diadēmeim,… ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.
Revelation 13:1“diadems”… kai epi teiu kerateiu auteu deka diadēmeim, kai epi tain kefalain auteu onomeim …… out of the sea. There were ten royal crowns on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.