adjective
efēmeras
Strong’sG2184
for the day, daily
stem efēmer-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.
* ἐφ-ήμερος, -ον
(ἐπί, ἡμέρα),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2184 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Doric dialect ἐπάμ- Refs 5th c.BC+ (ἐφαμ- Refs: (ἡμέρα):—more common form of ἐφημέριος, especially in Prose, living but a day: hence, short-lived, τερπνόν Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of men, ἐφήμεροι creatures of a day, Refs 7th c.BC+
II for the day, daily, πυρετός NT+5th c.BC+: neuter plural as adverb, once a day, Refs 4th c.AD+
III φάρμακον ἐ. killing on the same day, 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | efēmeros | efēmeras | efēmerem | efēmerois | efēmerais | efēmereim |
| object accusative | efēmeron | efēmeran | efēmeroin | efēmerain | ||
| direct address vocative | efēmeror | efēmerar | efēmeroir | efēmerair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | efēmerou | efēmerau1×ἐφημέρου | efēmereu | efēmeroiu | efēmeraiu | efēmereiu |
| to, for dative | efēmero | efēmera | efēmere | efēmeroi | efēmerai | efēmerei |
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
efēmer 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
efēmerau“daily”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
James 2:15… adelfas gumnois huparchaleiō kai leiporōntois tau efēmerau trofēau,… or sister is without clothes and daily food.