eilikrinos

Strong’sG1506

pure, uncontaminated, sincere

stem eilikrin-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 26 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.

** εἰλικρινής, -ές,

[in LXX: Wi 7:25 אB *;]

unalloyed, pure (Lat. sincerus; v. DCG, ii, 635a);

(a) of unmixed substances;

(b) of abstract ideas;

SYN.: ἁγνός (q.v.), καθαρός, cf. Tr., Syn.: §lxxxv; DB, iv, 176a; Cremer, 378; Westc. on I Jo 3:3.

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

Strong’s G1506 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidi-lik-ree-nace'

judged by sunlight, i.e. tested as genuine (figuratively)

Fromfrom εἵλη (the sun's ray) and G2919;

King Jamespure, sincere.

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

εἰλικριν-ής, ές,
unmixed, without alloy, pure, ἐκ πυρὸς τοῦ -εστάτου καὶ ὕδατος Refs 5th c.BC+; θέρμη, ψῦξις, Refs; διὰ τὸ εἰλικρινῆ ἕκαστα εἶναι (i.e. τὰ φῦλα) distinct and separate, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ ἧττον εἰ., opposed to τὸ καθαρώτερον, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 pure, simple, absolute, αὐτῇ καθ᾽ αὑτὴν εἰλικρινεῖ τῇ διανοίᾳ χρώμενος the pure and absolute intellect, Refs 5th c.BC+; γνωσόμεθα.. πᾶν τὸ εἰ. the pure and absolute, Refs; τὸ καθαρόν τε καὶ εἰ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡδονὴ εἰ. Refs 4th c.BC+; also of evil things, sheer, absolute, ἀδικία Refs 5th c.BC+
3 sincere, ἀπόδεξις Refs 3rd c.BC+; of persons, NT. adverb - νῶς Refs 1st c.BC+
4 total, ἐκλείψεις Refs 2nd c.AD+
II adverb -νῶς without mixture, of itself, simply, absolutely, διὰ τὸ εἰ. εἶναι Ἕλληνας καὶ ἀμιγεῖς βαρβάρων Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ εἰ. ὄν absolute being, Refs 4th c.BC+; without qualification, - νῶς Ταραντῖνοι Refs 2nd c.AD+: Ionic dialect εἰλικριν-έως, κρίνεσθαι to have a clear crisis, Refs 5th c.BC+ —The word is confined to Prose.

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.

pure1×sincere1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	eilikrinos	eilikrinas	eilikrinem	eilikrinois1×εἰλικρινεῖς	eilikrinais	eilikrineim
object accusative	eilikrinon	eilikrinan1×εἰλικρινῆ		eilikrinoin	eilikrinain
direct address vocative	eilikrinor	eilikrinar		eilikrinoir	eilikrinair
of, belonging to genitive	eilikrinou	eilikrinau	eilikrineu	eilikrinoiu	eilikrinaiu	eilikrineiu
to, for dative	eilikrino	eilikrina	eilikrine	eilikrinoi	eilikrinai	eilikrinei

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

eilikrinstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

eilikrin 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.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

eilikrinan“sincere”objectaccusative singular1×

2 Peter 3:1“sincere”… hai diegeiramō vu en hupomnēsia tan eilikrinan dianoian,Beloved, this is now my second letter to you. Both of them are reminders to stir you to wholesome thinking

eilikrinois“pure”subjectnominative plural1×

Philippians 1:10… dokimazarō vin teim diaferarōnteim, hina aveiō eilikrinois kai aproskopois eis hēmeran Christou,… what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of …