noun · neuter
entalmem
Strong’sG1778
an injunction, ordinance, precept
stem entalm-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books0 of 6 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.
† ἔνταλμα, -τος, τό
(< ἐντέλλω), [in LXX: Jb 23:11 (אָשֻׁר) Jb 23:12, Is 29:13 (מִצְוָה), Is 55:11 (aliter in Heb.)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1778 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiden'-tal-mah
an injunction, i.e. religious precept
Fromfrom G1781;
King Jamescommandment.
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
={ἐντολή}, LXX+NT
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 or object direct | entalmem | entalmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | entalmeu | entalmeiu |
| to, for dative | entalme | entalmei |
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
entalme 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
entalmeim3×
Matthew 15:9“commandments”matēn de sebolō min, didaskarōntois didaskaliain entalmeim anthrōpoiu.They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”
Mark 7:7“commandments”matēn de sebolō min, didaskarōntois didaskaliain entalmeim anthrōpoiu;They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’
Colossians 2:22… eis fthoran ta apochrēsia, kata teim entalmeim kai didaskaliain toiu anthrōpoiu?… because they are based on human commands and teachings.