dusmas

Strong’sG1424

a setting of the sun, the West

stem dusm-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 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.

δυσμή, -ῆς, ἡ

(= δύσις, < δύνω), [in LXX for בּוֹא, עֲרָבָה, etc.;]

mostly in pl., opp. to ἀνατολαί;

1. a setting, as of the sun (acc. to Thayer, s.v., so perhaps in Lk 12:54).

2. the quarter of sunset, the west: anarth., Mt 8:11 24:27, Lk 12:54 13:29, Re 21:13.†

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

Strong’s G1424 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiddoos-may'

the sun-set, i.e. (by implication) the western region

Fromfrom G1416;

King Jameswest.

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

δυσμή, ἡ,
(δύω) ={δύσις}, setting, mostly in plural, ἀελίου δ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπὶ δυσμῇσιν ἐών at the point of setting, Refs 5th c.BC+
II the quarter of sunset, west, ἀπὸ ἑσπέρης τε καὶ [ἡλίου] δυσμέων Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἀνατολαί, Refs 4th c.AD+:—also δυθμή, Refs 3rd 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.

west5×

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	dusmas	dusmais
object accusative	dusman	dusmain
direct address vocative	dusmar	dusmair
of, belonging to genitive	dusmau	dusmaiu5×δυσμῶν
to, for dative	dusma	dusmai

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

dusmstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

dusma 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.

5 occurrences, every one of them listed

dusmaiu“west”of, belonging togenitive plural5×

Matthew 8:11… vi hoti pollois apo anatolaiu kai dusmaiu hēkali kai anaklinili meta Abraam kai …… come from the east and the west to share the banquet with Abraham …

Matthew 24:27… exerchotō apo anatolaiu kai fanotō heōs dusmaiu, houtōs eti tas parousias tou huiou …… and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of …

Luke 12:54… ochloi; Hotan horaveia nefelan anatellarōntan epi dusmaiu, eutheōs legavō hoti Ombros erchotō, kai …… see a cloud rising in the west, you say, ‘A shower is coming …

Luke 13:29kai hēkali apo anatolaiu kai dusmaiu kai apo borrou kai notou kai …People will come from east and west and north and south, and will …

Revelation 21:13… apo notou pulōnois treis, kai apo dusmaiu pulōnois treis;… the south, and three on the west.