adjective

dusnoētem

Greekδυσνόητος (dusnoētos)

Strong’sG1425

hard to understand

stem dusnoēt-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

hard to understand1×

What it means

* δυσνόητος, -ον

(< νοέω),

hard to understand: II Pe 3:16.†

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

Strong’s G1425 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiddoos-no'-ay-tos

difficult of perception

Fromfrom G1418 and a derivative of G3539;

King Jameshard to be understood.

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	dusnoētos	dusnoētas	dusnoētem	dusnoētois	dusnoētais	dusnoēteim1×δυσνόητά
object accusative	dusnoēton	dusnoētan		dusnoētoin	dusnoētain
direct address vocative	dusnoētor	dusnoētar		dusnoētoir	dusnoētair
of, belonging to genitive	dusnoētou	dusnoētau	dusnoēteu	dusnoētoiu	dusnoētaiu	dusnoēteiu
to, for dative	dusnoēto	dusnoēta	dusnoēte	dusnoētoi	dusnoētai	dusnoētei

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

dusnoētstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

dusnoēt 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

dusnoēteim“hard to understand”subject or objectdirect plural1×

2 Peter 3:16“hard to understand”hōs kai en pantai tai epistolai lalarōtos en autai peri houteiu, en hai atō dusnoēteim tineim, heim tois amathois kai astēriktois streblalō hōs kai tain loipain grafain pros tan idian autoiu apōleian.He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.