noun · feminine
dokas
Strong’sG1385
a beam
stem dok-6 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
δοκός, -οῦ, ἡ
(δέχομαι) [in LXX for קֹרָה, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1385 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddok-os'
a stick of timber
Fromfrom G1209 (through the idea of holding up);
King Jamesbeam.
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
later also ὁ, Refs 2nd c.AD+: (δέχομαι):— bearing-beam, main beam, especially in the roof or floor of a house, Refs 8th c.BC+; any balk or beam, Refs 8th c.BC+; bar of a gate or door, Refs 5th c.BC+: also, in plural, firewood, Refs 3rd c.AD+one who has 'swallowed a poker', Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐν δοκοῖσι is probably falsa lectio for{ἐνδόκοισι} in Refs 7th c.BC+
II a kind of meteor, 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 nominative | dokas1×δοκὸς | dokais |
| object accusative | dokan5×δοκὸν | dokain |
| direct address vocative | dokar | dokair |
| of, belonging to genitive | dokau | dokaiu |
| to, for dative | doka | dokai |
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
doka 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.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
dokas“log”subjectnominative singular1×
Matthew 7:4“log”… tou ofthalmou su, kai idou tas dokas en to ofthalmo su?… out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?
dokan“log”objectaccusative singular5×
Matthew 7:3“log”… tan de en to so ofthalmo dokan ouk katanoasō?… brother’s eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
Matthew 7:5“log”… prōtem ek tou ofthalmou su tan dokan, kai tote diablepasi ekbalara tem karfem …You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your …
Luke 6:41“log”… ofthalmo tou adelfou su, tan de dokan tan en to idio ofthalmo ouk …… speck in your brother’s eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
Luke 6:42“log”… autos tan en to ofthalmo su dokan ouk bleparōntos? hupokritor, ekbalasar prōtem tan …… while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from …
Luke 6:42“log”… ouk bleparōntos? hupokritor, ekbalasar prōtem tan dokan ek tou ofthalmou su, kai tote …… fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.