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noun · feminine

Greekἐλαφρία (elafria)
Biblang

elafrias

Strong’sG1644

levity, fickleness

stem elafri-once in the New Testament1 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.

*† ἐλαφρία, -ας, ἡ

lightness, levity: II Co 1:17.†

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

Strong’s G1644 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidel-af-ree'-ah

levity (figuratively), i.e. fickleness

Fromfrom G1645;

King Jameslightness.

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
ἐλαφρ-ία, ἡ,
lightness: levity, NT
II alleviation, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III ={ὀλιγότης}, Refs

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.

lightly1×

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativeelafriaselafriais
object accusativeelafrianelafriain
direct address vocativeelafriarelafriair
of, belonging to genitiveelafriauelafriaiu
to, for dativeelafria1×ἐλαφρίᾳelafriai

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
elafristem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

elafria 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

elafria“lightly”to, fordative singular1×

2 Corinthians 1:17“lightly”houtem oun boulorōntos mēti ara ta elafria chrema? ē heim bouleuomō kata sarkan …When I planned this, did I do it carelessly? Or do I …