adjective
ekgonem
Strong’sG1549
descended, a descendant
stem ekgon-once in the New Testament1 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.
ἔκ-γονος, -ον
(< ἐκγίγνομαι, to be born of), [in LXX for פְּרִי (neut.), בֵּן, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1549 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(η, ον Refs 5th c.BC+, Doric dialect, Refs 4th c.BC+, etc.:— born of, sprung from, especially substantive, child, whether son or daughter, Refs 8th c.BC+ (anapaest meter): plural, ἔκγονοι descendants, Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.; ἐκγόνων ἔκγονοι children's children, Refs 5th c.BC+; also of interest as the child of the principal, Refs
b grandchild, Refs
2 neuter, ἔκγονά τινος one's offspring, Refs 5th c.BC+; [ποιηταὶ] ἔ. ἑαυτῶν καταλείπουσιν Refs 5th c.BC+; compare ἔγγονος.
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 | ekgonos | ekgonas | ekgonem | ekgonois | ekgonais | ekgoneim1×ἔκγονα |
| object accusative | ekgonon | ekgonan | ekgonoin | ekgonain | ||
| direct address vocative | ekgonor | ekgonar | ekgonoir | ekgonair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | ekgonou | ekgonau | ekgoneu | ekgonoiu | ekgonaiu | ekgoneiu |
| to, for dative | ekgono | ekgona | ekgone | ekgonoi | ekgonai | ekgonei |
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
ekgon 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
ekgoneim“grandchildren”subject or objectdirect plural1×
1 Timothy 5:4ei de tinas chēras tekneim ē ekgoneim echatō, mathalōr prōton ton idion oikon …… if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show …