noun · neuter
edafem
Strong’sG1475
the base, ground
stem edaf-once in the New Testament0 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.
ἔδαφος, -εος (-ους), τό,
[in LXX for עָפָר, קַרְקע, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1475 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saided'-af-os
a basis (bottom), i.e. the soil
Fromfrom the base of G1476;
King Jamesground.
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
bottom, foundation, base of anything, τῆς κατασκευῆς τὰ ἐ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔ. νηός bottom of a ship, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἔ. ποταμοῦ, τῆς θαλάττης, Refs 5th c.BC+; [ποτηρίου] Refs 5th c.BC+
2 ground-floor, pavement, οἴκου Refs 5th c.BC+; καθελεῖν ἐς ἔ. raze to the ground, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔπεσον εἰς τὸ ἔ. NT+3rd c.AD+
3 ground, soil, περὶ τοῦ τῆς πατρίδος ἐδάφους ἀγωνίζεσθαι for our country's soil, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐχθρὸς τῷ τῆς πόλεως ἐδάφει, of a mortal foe, Refs; soil, viewed in regard to its quality, Refs 4th c.BC+ lands and tenements (including houses), Refs 4th c.BC+; also, masses of earth, Refs 4th c.BC+
4 text of a manuscript, opposed to margin (μέτωπον), Refs 2nd c.AD+
4.b manuscript, Refs
5 background of puppet-theatre, Refs 2nd 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.
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 | edafem | edafeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | edafeu | edafeiu |
| to, for dative | edafe | edafei |
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
edafe 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
edafem1×
Acts 22:7piptama tē eis tem edafem kai akouama fōnau legarōntau mi; Saoul …I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to …