adjective
eirēnikos
Strong’sG1516
peaceable, disposed to peace
stem eirēnik-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.
εἰρηνικός, -ή, -όν
(< εἰρήνη), [in LXX for שָׁלוֹם and cognates;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1516 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidi-ray-nee-kos'
pacific; by implication, salutary
Fromfrom G1515;
King Jamespeaceable.
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
of or for peace, λόγων -ώτατος Refs 5th c.BC+; θυσίαι peace offerings, LXX+2nd c.AD+
2 of or in peace, peaceful, βίος, πρᾶξις, etc., Refs 5th c.BC+: superlative, Refs 1st c.AD+ adverb -κῶς peaceably, opposed to πολεμικῶς, Refs 5th c.BC+ O., etc.: comparative -ώτερον Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 peaceable, of persons, Refs 5th 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | eirēnikos | eirēnikas1×εἰρηνική | eirēnikem | eirēnikois | eirēnikais | eirēnikeim |
| object accusative | eirēnikon1×εἰρηνικὸν | eirēnikan | eirēnikoin | eirēnikain | ||
| direct address vocative | eirēnikor | eirēnikar | eirēnikoir | eirēnikair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | eirēnikou | eirēnikau | eirēnikeu | eirēnikoiu | eirēnikaiu | eirēnikeiu |
| to, for dative | eirēniko | eirēnika | eirēnike | eirēnikoi | eirēnikai | eirēnikei |
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
eirēnik 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
eirēnikon“peaceful”objectaccusative singular1×
Hebrews 12:11“peaceful”… arō alla lupau, husterem de karpon eirēnikon toi dia autau gumnazorēntoi apodōatō dikaiosunau.… the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.
eirēnikas“peaceable”subjectnominative singular1×
James 3:17“peaceable”… sofias prōtem men hagnas atō, epeita eirēnikas, epieikas, eupeithas, mestas eleseu kai karpoiu …But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit …