ēthem

Strong’sG2239

habit, manner, custom, morals

stem ēth-once in the New Testament0 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.

** ἦθος, -εος (-ους), τό,

[in LXX: Si, prol.:27 20:26(25), IV Mac 1:29 2:7, 21 5:24 13:27*;]

1 1, a haunt, abode.

2. = ἔθος, custom, manner: pl., I Co 15:33.†

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

Strong’s G2239 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiday'-thos

usage, i.e. (plural) moral habits

Froma strengthened form of G1485;

King Jamesmanners.

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

ἦθος, εος, τό
(compare ἔθος), an accustomed place: hence, in plural, haunts or abodes of animals, μετά τ᾽ ἤθεα καὶ νομὸν ἵππων Refs 8th c.BC+; of lions, Refs 5th c.BC+; of fish, Refs 2nd c.AD+; of the abodes of men, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἔλεγον ἐξ ἠθέων τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατεῖλαι away from his accustomed place, Refs 5th c.BC+; of plants, Refs 4th c.AD+: metaphorically, with play on signification Refs 5th c.BC+
II custom, usage: in plural, manners, customs, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐθρέψω Ξέρξην ἐν τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἤRefs 5th c.BC+
II.2 disposition, character, ἐπίκλοπον ἦθος Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀκίχητα ἤ., of Zeus, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὦ μιαρὸν ἦ. Refs; τὸ τῆς πόλεως ἦ. Refs 5th c.BC+; βελτίων τῆς πόλεως τὸ ἦ. Refs 4th c.BC+; especially moral character, opposed to διάνοια, Refs 4th c.BC+; as the result of habit, τὸ πᾶν ἦ. διὰ ἔθος Refs 5th c.BC+; ἦ. πηγὴ βίου Stoic. cited in Refs 5th c.AD+; τῆς ψυχῆς, τῆς γνώμης, Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, traits, characteristics, Refs 5th c.BC+: seldom in plural, of an individual, στερρὸν τὰ ἤθεα Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2.b of outward bearing, ὡς ἱλαρὸν τὸ ἦ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ὑψηλὸς τῷ ἤ. Refs 1st c.AD+: in plural, of facial expression, ὀφθαλμῶν ἤθη Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2.c in Rhet., delineation of character, ἦ. ἔχουσιν οἱ λόγοι ἐν ὅσοις δήλη ἡ προαίρεσις Refs 4th c.BC+; especially opposed to πάθος, Refs 3rd c.AD+; κατ᾽ ἦ. λέγεσθαι, opposed to κατὰ πάθος, Refs 4th c.BC+; so of works of art, ἡ Ζεύξιδος γραφὴ οὐδὲν ἔχει ἦ. Refs 4th c.BC+; also of Music, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2.d dramatis persona, εἰσάγει ἄνδρα ἢ γυναῖκα ἢ ἄλλο τι ἦ. Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 also of animals, ἦ. τὸ πρὸς τοκέων (probable reading for ἔθος) Refs 5th c.BC+; of things, nature, kind, παρὰ δ᾽ ἦ. ἑκάστῳ (to each of the four elements) Refs 5th c.BC+
II.4 ἐν ἤθει tactfully Refs 1st c.AD+; διὰ μέτριον ἦθος, of the expression δοκεῖ μοι, Refs 7th c.AD+

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.

morals1×

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	ēthem	ētheim
of, belonging to genitive	ētheu	ētheiu
to, for dative	ēthe	ēthei

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

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

ēthe 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

ētheim1×

1 Corinthians 15:33“morals”mē planovōr; ftheralō ētheim chrēsteim homiliais kakosais.Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”