noun · neuter
esoptrem
Strong’sG2072
a mirror
stem esoptr-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.
** ἔσ-οπτρον, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX: Wi 7:26, Si 12:11 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2072 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(so Refs 3rd c.AD+, mostly in the form ἔσοπτρον, τό, (ὄψομαι) looking-glass, mirror, Refs 5th 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 or object direct | esoptrem | esoptreim |
| of, belonging to genitive | esoptreu1×ἐσόπτρου | esoptreiu |
| to, for dative | esoptre1×ἐσόπτρῳ | esoptrei |
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
esoptre 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
esoptreu“mirror”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
1 Corinthians 13:12blepanō gar arti dia esoptreu en ainigme, tote de prosōpem pros …… a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to …
esoptre“mirror”to, fordative singular1×
James 1:23… tem prosōpem tau genesiau autou en esoptre,… looks at his face in a mirror,