noun · masculine
erifos
Strong’sG2056
a goat
stem erif-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 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.
ἔριφος, -ου
[in LXX chiefly for גְּדִי;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2056 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saider'-if-os
a kid or (genitive case) goat
Fromperhaps from the same as G2053 (through the idea of hairiness);
King Jamesgoat, kid.
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
(ἡ, Refs 7th c.BC+, kid, ἄρνεσσιν..ἢ ἐρίφοισι Refs 8th c.BC+
II Ἔριφοι, οἱ, the constellation Haedi, Refs 4th c.BC+
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 nominative | erifos | erifois |
| object accusative | erifon1×ἔριφον | erifoin |
| direct address vocative | erifor | erifoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | erifou | erifoiu1×ἐρίφων |
| to, for dative | erifo | erifoi |
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
erifo 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
erifon“young goat”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 15:29… su parerchama, kai mi oudepote dōasa erifon hina meta toiu filoiu mu eufranimeia;… you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my …
erifoiu“goats”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Matthew 25:32… poimenos aforizatō teim probateim apo toiu erifoiu,… shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.