adjective
epiorkos
Strong’sG1965
perjured
stem epiork-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.
ἐπί-ορκος, -ον
[in LXX: Za 5:3 (שָׁבַע ni.) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1965 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
sworn falsely, of oaths, εἰ δέ τι τῶνδ᾽ ἐπίορκον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.264: frequently in the phrase ἐπίορκον ὀμόσσαι take a false oath, swear falsely, Refs; in full, ἐπίορκον ὅρκον ὤμοσε Refs he swore a bootless oath, i.e. one which he meant to fulfil, but the gods willed otherwise.
II. of persons, forsworn, perjured, Refs: superlative -ότατος 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.48. adverb -κως 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 6.9.2.
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.
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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 | epiorkos | epiorkas | epiorkem | epiorkois | epiorkais | epiorkeim |
| object accusative | epiorkon | epiorkan | epiorkoin | epiorkain | ||
| direct address vocative | epiorkor | epiorkar | epiorkoir | epiorkair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | epiorkou | epiorkau | epiorkeu | epiorkoiu | epiorkaiu | epiorkeiu |
| to, for dative | epiorko | epiorka | epiorke | epiorkoi1×ἐπιόρκοις | epiorkai | epiorkei |
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
epiork 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
epiorkoi“perjurers”to, fordative plural1×
1 Timothy 1:10pornoi, arsenokoitoi, andrapodistoi, pseustoi, epiorkoi, kai ei tinem heterem ta hugiainarōnta …… for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is …