elegmos

Strong’sG1650

a proof, persuasion, reproof

stem elegm-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.

† ἐλεγμός, -οῦ, ὁ

(< ἐλέγχω), [in LXX: Ps 38:14 39:11 (תּוֹכֵחָה), Si 20:29 21:6 41:4, al.;]

reproof: II Ti 3:16.†

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

Strong’s G1650 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidel'-eng-khos

proof, conviction

Fromfrom G1651;

King Jamesevidence, reproof.

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

ἔλεγχος, ὁ,

B argument of disproof or refutation, πολύδηρις ἔ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐλέγχου ἄγνοια, ignoratio elenchi, Refs 1st c.BC+
B.II generally, cross-examining, testing, scrutiny, especially for purposes of refutation, οὐκ ἔχει ἔλεγχον does not admit of disproof, Refs 5th c.BC+; τῶνδ᾽ ἔλεγχον, absolutely, as a test of this, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔ. παραδοῦναί τινι to give him an opportunity of refuting, Refs 5th c.BC+; δόμεν τι βασάνῳ ἐς ἔ. to submit it to scrutiny, Refs 5th c.BC+; χρυσὸς νόθου ἀρετῆς ἔ. Refs; ἀρετῆς ἔ. δοῦναι a proof or test of it, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔ. διδόναι τοῦ βίου to give an account of one's life, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔ. ποιεῖν τινός to test it, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔ. λαβεῖν τινός make trial of it, Refs; ἐλέγχους ἀποδέχεσθαι to admit tests, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐλέγχους προσφέρειν to allege them, Refs 5th c.BC+; διάπειρα βροτῶν ἔ. Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰς ἔ. πεσεῖν to be convicted, Refs 5th c.BC+; δεικνυμένων ἐ. Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰς ἔ. ἐξιέναι to proceed to the proof, put to the test, Refs; or, to be put to the proof, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ περὶ Παυσανίαν ἔ. the evidence on which he was convicted, NT+5th c.BC+
B.III Ἔλεγχος personified, Refs 4th c.BC+
B.III.b applied to Refs 1st c.AD+
B.IV catalogue, inventory, Refs 2nd c.AD+
B.V drop-pearl, Refs 1st c.AD+

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.

reproof1×

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	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	elegmos	elegmois
object accusative	elegmon1×ἐλεγμόν	elegmoin
direct address vocative	elegmor	elegmoir
of, belonging to genitive	elegmou	elegmoiu
to, for dative	elegmo	elegmoi

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

elegmstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

elegmo 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

elegmon“reproof”objectaccusative singular1×

2 Timothy 3:16“reproof”… theopneustas kai ōfelimas pros didaskalian, pros elegmon, pros epanorthōsian, pros paideian tan en …… is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,