noun · neuter
eriem
Strong’sG2053
wool
stem eri-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
ἔριον, -ου, τό
[in LXX for צֶמֶר, Le 13:47, Is 1:18, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2053 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saider'-ee-on
wool
Fromof obscure affinity;
King Jameswool.
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
Ionic dialect εἴριον Refs 8th c.BC+:— wool, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐρίῳ στέψαντες, i.e. with woollen fillets, Refs 8th c.BC+; εἴρια ῥυπαρά, ἔρια οἰσυπηρά, greasy wool, Refs 5th c.BC+; τἄρια, crasis for τὰ ἔ., Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔ. πεπταμένα outspread flocks of wool, Refs 4th c.BC+cotton, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ ἔ. [τῆς ἀράχνης] a spider's web, Refs 2nd c.AD+; τὰ ἐκ τῆς θαλάττης ἔ., of the byssus of the pinna, Refs 4th c.AD+; Latin vervex perhaps not cognate)
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 | eriem1×ἔριον | erieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | erieu1×ἐρίου | erieiu |
| to, for dative | erie | eriei |
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
erie 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
eriem“wool”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Revelation 1:14… autou kai tais trichais leukais hōs eriem leukem, hōs chiōnas, kai tois ofthalmois …… of His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His …
erieu“wool”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Hebrews 9:19… haimem toiu moschoiu meta hudeu kai erieu kokkineu kai hussōpau autem tē tem …… and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll …