epiblēmem

Strong’sG1915

a patch on a garment

stem epiblēm-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 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.

ἐπί-βλημα, -τος, τό

[in LXX: Is 3:22 *;]

1. that which is thrown over, a cover.

2. a tapestry, hanging (Is, l.c.).

3. that which is put on;

(a) embroidery;

(b) a patch: Mt 9:16, Mk 2:21, Lk 5:36.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1915 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidep-ib'-lay-mah

a patch

Fromfrom G1911;

King Jamespiece.

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

ἐπί-βλημα, ατος, τό,
that which is thrown over, covering, Refs 4th c.BC+; coverlet, bedspread, Refs 5th c.BC+; head-covering, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2. tapestry, hangings, Refs 1st c.AD+
II. that which is put on, piece of embroidery, Refs, 22.1514.31; mantle, LXX
II.2. patch, NT.Mat.9.16, etc.
II.3. outer bandage, Paul. Aeg.6.92.

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.

patch3×piece1×

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	epiblēmem1×ἐπίβλημα	epiblēmeim
of, belonging to genitive	epiblēmeu	epiblēmeiu
to, for dative	epiblēme	epiblēmei

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

epiblēmstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

epiblēme 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.

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

epiblēmem“piece”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Luke 5:36… kai te palaie ouk sumfōnati tem epiblēmem tem apo teu kaineu.… a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment …

epiblēmem3×

Matthew 9:16oudenos de epibalatō epiblēmem rakeu agnafeu epi himatie palaie; airatō …No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old …

Mark 2:21Oudenos epiblēmem rakeu agnafeu epiraptatō epi himatiem palaiem; …No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old …

Luke 5:36… kai parabolan pros autoin hoti Oudenos epiblēmem apo himatieu kaineu schizarantos epibalatō epi …… new garment as well, and the patch from the new will not match …