adverb
eikē
Strong’sG1500
without purpose, in vain
stem eik-6 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 booksnever changes form
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.
εἰκῇ (-ῆ, Rec., as in cl.), adv.,
[in LXX: Pr 28:25 (εἰκῇ)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1500 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidi-kay'
idly, i.e. without reason (or effect)
Fromprobably from G1502 (through the idea of failure);
King Jameswithout a cause, (in) vain(-ly).
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
without plan or purpose, at random, at a venture, Refs 6th c.BC+
II in vain, NT+1st c.BC+
III slightly, moderately, ἀγγεῖα εἰ. πεπυρωμένα 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.
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
eikē6×
Romans 13:4… tem kakosem poiaseiō, fobosōr; ouk gar eikē tan machairan foratō; theou gar diakonos …… he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent …
1 Corinthians 15:2… vi, ei katechavō, ektos ei mē eikē pisteuava.… to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
Galatians 3:4tosouteim paschava eikē? ei ge kai eikē.Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?
Galatians 3:4tosouteim paschava eikē? ei ge kai eikē.… for nothing, if it really was for nothing?
Galatians 4:11fobomō vin mē pōs eikē kopiamē eis vin.… efforts for you may have been in vain.
Colossians 2:18“without cause”… thrēskeia toiu angeloiu, heim horatē embateuarōntos, eikē fusiorōntos hupo tou nouou tau sarkau …… humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.