noun · feminine
eideas
Strong’sG2397
form, outward appearance
stem eide-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.
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 *;]
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect ἰδέη, ἡ, (ἰδεῖν) form, ἰδέᾳ καλός Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to χρῶμα, Refs; opposed to μέγεθος, NT+5th c.BC+; of the elementary shapes, ἄτομοι ἰδέαι Refs 4th c.BC+; of the four elements, Philistion cited in Refs 1st c.AD+
2 semblance, opposed to reality, γνώμην ἐξαπατῶσ᾽ ἰδέαι outward appearances cheat the mind, Refs 6th c.BC+
3 kind, sort, φύλλα τοιῆσδε ἰδέης Refs 5th c.BC+; φύσιν παρέχονται ἰδέης τοιήνδε [οἱ ποτάμιοι ἵπποι] Refs; ἐφρόνεον διφασίας ἰ. they conceived two modes of acting, Refs; τὰ ὄργι᾽ ἐστὶ τίν᾽ ἰ. ἔχοντά σο; what is their nature or fashion? Refs 5th c.BC+; ἑτέραν ὕμνων ἰ. Refs 5th c.BC+; καινὰς ἰ. εἰσφέρειν new forms of comedy, Refs; τίς ἰ. βουλεύματο; Refs; πᾶσα ἰ. θανάτου every form of death, or death in every form, Refs 5th c.BC+; πᾶσαν ἰδέαν πειράσαντες having tried every way, Refs; τῇ αὐτῇ ἰ. Refs; οὐκ ἐν ταῖς αὐταῖς ἰ. not in the same relations, Refs 5th c.BC+. into one kind of existence, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 especially in Rhet., etc., of literary form, ἀμφοτέραις ταῖς ἰδέαις κατεχρήσαντο πρὸς τὴν ποίησιν Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ἰαμβικὴ ἰ. Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ ἐν τῷ λέγειν ἰ. Refs 5th c.BC+
4.b style, Πλατωνική, Δημοσθενικὴ ἰ., Refs 5th c.AD+
4.c a quality of style (e.g. σαφήνεια, γοργότης, etc.), Refs 2nd c.AD+
II in Logic,= εἶδος, class, kind: hence, principle of classification, ἔφησθα.. μιᾷ ἰδέᾳ τά τε ἀνόσια ἀνόσια εἶναι καὶ τὰ ὅσια ὅσια Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 plural in Platonic Philosophy, ideal forms, archetypes, τὰς.. ἰ. νοεῖσθαι μέν, ὁρᾶσθαι δ᾽ οὔ Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 notion, idea, προάγειν τὸν ἀποκρινόμενον ἐπὶ τὴν ἰ. ἀγνοουμένου πράγματος NT+4th 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 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
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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
eideas“appearance”subjectnominative singular1×
Matthew 28:3ate de tas eideas autou hōs astrapas kai tem endumem …His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes …