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noun · masculine

efeuretos

Greekἐφευρετής (efeuretēs)

Strong’sG2182

an inventor, contriver, discoverer

stem efeuret-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

inventors

What it means

* ἐφ-ευρετής, -οῦ, ὁ

(< ἐφευρίσκω, to find out)

an inventor, contriver: κακῶν (cf. κακίας εὑρετής, II Mac 7:31), Ro 1:30.†

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

Strong’s G2182 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidef-yoo-ret'-ace

a discoverer, i.e. contriver

Fromfrom a compound of G1909 and G2147;

King Jamesinventor.

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativeefeuretosefeuretois
object accusativeefeuretonefeuretoinἐφευρετὰς
direct address vocativeefeuretorefeuretoir
of, belonging to genitiveefeuretouefeuretoiu
to, for dativeefeuretoefeuretoi

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
efeuretstem+ogender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

efeureto 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

efeuretoin“inventors”objectaccusative plural

Romans 1:30“inventors”katalaloin, theostugoin, hubristoin, huperēfanoin, alazōnoin, efeuretoin kakeiu, gonevoi apeithoin,slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.