noun · neuter
epangelmem
Strong’sG1862
a promise
stem epangelm-2 times in the New Testament0 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.
* ἐπ-άγγελμα, -τος, τό
(< ἐπαγγέλλω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1862 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidep-ang'-el-mah
a self-committal (by assurance of conferring some good)
Fromfrom G1861;
King Jamespromise.
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
promise, profession, Refs 5th c.BC+.; ἐπαγγέλματι, opposed to κατ᾽ ἀλήθειαν, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 subject of a treatise, that which it purports to contain, τὸ ἐ. τοῦ λόγου Refs 1st c.BC+
3 ={ἐπαγγελία} 7, Refs 1st c.AD+
4 art, profession, τὸ ἐ. τῆς ἀοτοποιΐας Refs 2nd 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 or object direct | epangelmem | epangelmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | epangelmeu | epangelmeiu |
| to, for dative | epangelme | epangelmei |
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
epangelme 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
epangelmeim1×
2 Peter 1:4… heiu teim timieim kai megotateim ni epangelmeim dōrotē, hina dia houteiu geneveia theiau …… given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may …
epangelmem1×
2 Peter 3:13… ouranoin kai gēan kainan kata tem epangelmem autou prosdokanō, en hoi dikaiosunas katoikatō.But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a …