noun · feminine
eilikrineias
Strong’sG1505
clearness, sincerity, purity
stem eilikrinei-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
** εἰλικρινία (Rec., cl., -κρινεία), -ας, ἡ
(< εἰλικρινής), [in LXX: Wi 7:25 A *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1505 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidi-lik-ree'-ni-ah
clearness, i.e. (by implication) purity (figuratively)
Fromfrom G1506;
King Jamessincerity.
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
unmixedness, purity, opposed to μίξις, Refs 4th c.BC+; in bad sense, unrelievedness, κακοῦ Refs 1st c.BC+
II sincerity, uprightness, NT+3rd 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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | eilikrineias | eilikrineiais |
| object accusative | eilikrineian | eilikrineiain |
| direct address vocative | eilikrineiar | eilikrineiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | eilikrineiau2×εἰλικρινείας | eilikrineiaiu |
| to, for dative | eilikrineia1×εἰλικρινείᾳ | eilikrineiai |
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
eilikrineia 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
eilikrineiau“sincerity”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
1 Corinthians 5:8… kakiau kai ponēriau, alla en azumei eilikrineiau kai alētheiau.… but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
2 Corinthians 2:17… logon tou theou, alla hōs ek eilikrineiau, alla hōs ek theou katenanti theou …… Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as men sent from God.
eilikrineia“sincerity”to, fordative singular1×
2 Corinthians 1:12… suneidēsiau nu, hoti en hagiota kai eilikrineia tou theou, ouk en sofia sarkika …… to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God — not in …