noun · feminine

eideas

Greekεἰδέα (eidea)

Strong’sG2397

form, outward appearance

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

Translated as

appearance1×

What it means

εἰδέα (Rec. ἰδ-, as in cl.; v. Tdf., Pr., 81), -ας, ἡ (< εἶδον), [in LXX (v.l. ἰδ-): Ge 5:3 (דְּמוּת), Da TH 1:13, 15 (מַרְאֶה), Ep. Je 63, II Mac 3:16 *;]

appearance, look: Mt 28:3.†

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

Strong’s G2397 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidid-eh'-ah

a sight (comparative figuratively "idea"), i.e. aspect

Fromfrom G1492;

King Jamescountenance.

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	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	eideas1×εἰδέα	eideais
object accusative	eidean	eideain
direct address vocative	eidear	eideair
of, belonging to genitive	eideau	eideaiu
to, for dative	eidea	eideai

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

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

eidea 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

eideas“appearance”subjectnominative singular1×

Matthew 28:3“appearance”ate de tas eideas autou hōs astrapas kai tem endumem autou leukem hōs chiōnas.His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.