adjective
euōnumos
Strong’sG2176
on the left-hand side, left
stem euōnum-9 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 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.
εὐώνυμος, -ον
(εὖ, ὄνομα), [in LXX chiefly for שְׂמאׄל;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2176 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidyoo-o'-noo-mos
properly, well-named (good-omened), i.e. the left (which was the lucky side among the pagan Greeks); neuter as adverbial, at the left hand
King James(on the) left.
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
(ὄνομα)
A of good name, honoured, Refs 8th c.BC+; εὐ. χάρις the honour of a good name, Refs; δίκη.. μὴ εὐ. not creditable, Refs 5th c.BC+
A.2 expressed in well-chosen terms, λόγος Refs 2nd c.AD+
A.II having an auspicious name or sound, ἀριστοκρατία Refs 5th c.BC+
A.II.2 prosperous, fortunate, δίκα, πόδες, Refs 5th c.BC+
A.II.3 epithet of Artemis, Ἀρχ. Ἐφ. Refs 4th c.BC+
A.III euphemistic (like ἀριστερός) for left, on the left hand (because bad omens came from the left), ὠλένη εὐ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐξ εὐωνύμου (i.e. χειρός) Refs; κατὰ τὰ εὐ. NT+5th c.BC+; as military term, τὸ εὐ. κέρας Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ εὐ. (without κέρας) Refs 5th c.BC+
A.III.2 euphemistic of bad omens, opposed to οἱ δεξιοὶ φύσιν, Refs 6th c.BC+
A.III.3 Astron., southerly, Refs 2nd 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.
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 | euōnumos | euōnumas | euōnumem | euōnumois | euōnumais | euōnumeim |
| object accusative | euōnumon1×εὐώνυμον | euōnuman1×εὐώνυμον | euōnumoin | euōnumain | ||
| direct address vocative | euōnumor | euōnumar | euōnumoir | euōnumair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | euōnumou | euōnumau | euōnumeu | euōnumoiu | euōnumaiu | euōnumeiu7×εὐωνύμων |
| to, for dative | euōnumo | euōnuma | euōnume | euōnumoi | euōnumai | euōnumei |
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
euōnum 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.
9 occurrences, every one of them listed
euōnumon“left”objectaccusative singular1×
Revelation 10:2… dexon epi tau thalassau, ton de euōnumon epi tau gēau,… foot on the sea and his left foot on the land.
euōnuman“on the left”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 21:3“on the left”… de tan Kupran kai kataleiparantois autan euōnuman plane eis Surian, kai katerchana eis …After sighting Cyprus and passing south of it, we sailed on to Syria and landed at Tyre, where …
euōnumeiu“left”of, belonging togenitive plural7×
Matthew 20:21… ek dexeiu su kai henos ek euōnumeiu su en ta basileia su.… hand, and the other at Your left.”
Matthew 20:23… kathizara ek dexeiu mu kai ek euōnumeiu ouk atō ēmem dōara, alla hoi …… to sit at My right or left is not Mine to grant. These …
Matthew 25:33… dexeiu autou teim de erifieim ek euōnumeiu.… right and the goats on His left.
Matthew 25:41tote legati kai toi ek euōnumeiu; Poreuovōr apo mu tois katarorēntoir eis …… will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are …
Matthew 27:38… henos ek dexeiu kai henos ek euōnumeiu.… right and the other on His left.
Mark 10:40… kathizara ek dexeiu mu ē ek euōnumeiu ouk atō ēmem dōara, alla hoi …… to sit at My right or left is not Mine to grant. These …
Mark 15:27… henon ek dexeiu kai henon ek euōnumeiu autou.… His right and one on His left.