noun · feminine
emplokas
Strong’sG1708
a plaiting, braiding
stem emplok-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.
*† ἐμ-πλοκή, ῆς, ἡ
(< ἐμπλίκω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1708 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidem-plok-ay'
elaborate braiding of the hair
Fromfrom G1707;
King Jamesplaiting.
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
braiding, κόμης NT+4th c.BC+
2 scuffle, Refs 1st c.AD+
II interweaving, Refs 4th c.BC+; entanglement, Refs 1st c.AD+; of the matted roots of trees, Refs; τόποις ἐμπλοκὰς ἔχειν, of districts, to run into one another, Refs 1st c.BC+
III in Mathematics texts, κατ᾽ ἐμπλοκήν, ={ἐμπλέγδην}, Refs 4th 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.
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 | emplokas | emplokais |
| object accusative | emplokan | emplokain |
| direct address vocative | emplokar | emplokair |
| of, belonging to genitive | emplokau1×ἐμπλοκῆς | emplokaiu |
| to, for dative | emploka | emplokai |
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
emploka 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
emplokau“braiding”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
1 Peter 3:3“braiding”haiu atōr ouk tos exōthen emplokau trichaiu kai perithesiau chrusieiu ē endusiau …Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or …