adjective
ennea
Strong’sG1767
nine
stem enne-5 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books0 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.
ἐννέα, οἱ, αἱ, τά, indecl.,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1767 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiden-neh'-ah
nine
Froma primary number;
King Jamesnine.
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
Doric dialect also ἐννῆ (which see), indeclinable, nine, Refs 8th c.BC+; τρὶς ἐννέα κλῶνας, in a religious ceremony, Refs 5th c.BC+; τρὶς ἐ. ἔτη Oracle texts cited in Refs 5th c.BC+
2 as a round number for, many, τρὶς ἐννέα φῶτας ἔπεφνεν Refs 8th c.BC+. (Cf. Latin novem, Sanskrit náva, etc.)
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 | ennea | ennea | ennea | ennea | ennea | ennea |
| object accusative | ennea | ennea | ennea | ennea | ||
| direct address vocative | ennea | ennea | ennea | ennea | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | ennea | ennea | ennea | ennea | ennea | ennea |
| to, for dative | ennea | ennea | ennea | ennea | ennea | ennea |
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
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
ennea5×
Matthew 18:12“*”… ek auteiu, ouchi afiēkati teim enenēkonta ennea epi teim oreim kai poreuirantos zētatō …… and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go out to …
Matthew 18:13“*”… aute mallon ē epi tei enenēkonta ennea tei mē planorēntei.… he rejoices more over that one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.
Luke 15:4“*”… auteiu henem ouk kataleipatō teim enenēkonta ennea en ta erēma kai poreuotō epi …… and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one …
Luke 15:7“*”… heno hamartōlo metanoarōnto ē epi enenēkonta ennea dikaioi hotinois ouk chreian echalō metanoiau.… heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.
Luke 17:17… Ouchi tois deka katharizila? tois de ennea pou?… asked. “Where then are the other nine?