adjective
enguos
Strong’sG1450
a surety, security
stem engu-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.
** ἔγγυος, -ου, ὁ, ἡ,
[in LXX: Si 29:15, 16, II Mac 10:28 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1450 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saideng'-goo-os
pledged (as if articulated by a member), i.e. a bondsman
Fromfrom G1722 and γυῖον (a limb);
King Jamessurety.
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
(ἐγγύη, compare ἀμφίγυος) secured, under good security, μνᾶς.. ἐγγύους ἐπὶτόκῳδεδανεις μένας Refs 5th c.BC+
2 reliable, in comparative, ὅπλα -ώτερα Refs 4th c.AD+
II substantive, ={ἐγγυητής, ἔγγυον παρέχειν} NT+6th c.BC+; ἔ. τῆς προξενίας giving security for.., Refs 4th c.BC+
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 | enguos1×ἔγγυος | enguas | enguem | enguois | enguais | engueim |
| object accusative | enguon | enguan | enguoin | enguain | ||
| direct address vocative | enguor | enguar | enguoir | enguair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | enguou | enguau | engueu | enguoiu | enguaiu | engueiu |
| to, for dative | enguo | engua | engue | enguoi | enguai | enguei |
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
engu 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
enguos“guarantee”subjectnominative singular1×
Hebrews 7:22kata tosoutem kreittonau diathēkau genatē enguos Iēsus.… this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.