eufēmem

Strong’sG2163

well reported of, spoken in a kindly spirit

stem eufēm-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.

εὔφημος, -ον

(εὖ, φήμη), [in Sm.: Ps 62 (63):6;]

primarily, uttering words or sounds of good omen, hence,

1. avoiding ill-omened words, religiously silent.

2. fair-sounding, auspicious (R, mg., gracious): Phl 4:8.†

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

Strong’s G2163 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidyoo'-fay-mos

well spoken of, i.e. reputable

Fromfrom G2095 and G5345;

King Jamesof good report.

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

εὔφημ-ος,
Doric dialect εὔφᾱμος, ον, (φήμη) uttering sounds of good omen, ἀετός Refs 4th c.BC+
I abstaining from inauspicious words, i.e. religiously silent, εὔφημον.. κοίμησον στόμα Refs 4th c.BC+; εὐφάμου στόμα φροντίδος ἱέντες moving the lips of reverent thought, i.e. keeping a holy silence, Refs 5th c.BC+; so ὑπ᾽ εὐφήμου βοῆς, i.e. in silence, Refs; εὔφημα φώνει, ={εὐφήμει}, Refs 5th c.BC+
I.2 mild, softening Refs 5th c.BC+; πρὸς τὸ -ότατον, Latin in meliorem partem, Refs 2nd c.AD+. adverb comparative -ότερον Refs
I.3 fair-spoken, εἰς τὸ δαιμόνιον Refs 1st c.BC+
II in positive sense, fair-sounding, auspicious, μῦθοι Refs 6th c.BC+; εὔ. πόνοι pious, holy, Refs 5th c.BC+; ᾠδῆς γένος, ἐρωτήματα, NT+5th c.BC+. adverb -μως with or in words of good omen, Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative -ότερον Refs 5th c.AD+
III laudatory, λόγοι εὔ. panegyrics, Refs 2nd 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.

commendable1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	eufēmos	eufēmas	eufēmem	eufēmois	eufēmais	eufēmeim1×εὔφημα
object accusative	eufēmon	eufēman		eufēmoin	eufēmain
direct address vocative	eufēmor	eufēmar		eufēmoir	eufēmair
of, belonging to genitive	eufēmou	eufēmau	eufēmeu	eufēmoiu	eufēmaiu	eufēmeiu
to, for dative	eufēmo	eufēma	eufēme	eufēmoi	eufēmai	eufēmei

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

eufēmstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

eufēm 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

eufēmeim“commendable”subject or objectdirect plural1×

Philippians 4:8“commendable”… dikaieim, hoseim hagneim, hoseim prosfileim, hoseim eufēmeim, ei tinas aretas kai ei tinos …… is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent …