elefantinem

Strong’sG1661

made of ivory

stem elefantin-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.

ἐλεφάντινος, -η, -ον

(< ἐλέφας, ivory), [in LXX for שֵׁן;]

of ivory: Re 18:12.†

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

Strong’s G1661 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidel-ef-an'-tee-nos

elephantine, i.e. (by implication) composed of ivory

Fromfrom ἔλεφας (an "elephant");

King Jamesof ivory.

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

ἐλεφάντ-ῐνος, η, ον,
of ivory, Refs 7th c.BC+; δίφρος ἐ.,= Latin sella curulis, Refs 2nd c.BC+; οἶκοι ἐ. LXX; τὸ ἐ. the substance of ivory, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 white as ivory, μέτωπον Refs; τάριχος Crates 29.

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.

of ivory1×

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	elefantinos	elefantinas	elefantinem1×ἐλεφάντινον	elefantinois	elefantinais	elefantineim
object accusative	elefantinon	elefantinan		elefantinoin	elefantinain
direct address vocative	elefantinor	elefantinar		elefantinoir	elefantinair
of, belonging to genitive	elefantinou	elefantinau	elefantineu	elefantinoiu	elefantinaiu	elefantineiu
to, for dative	elefantino	elefantina	elefantine	elefantinoi	elefantinai	elefantinei

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

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

elefantin 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

elefantinem“of ivory”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Revelation 18:12… pantem xulem thuinem kai pantem skevem elefantinem kai pantem skevem ek xuleu timiotateu …… of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;