noun · feminine
euprepeias
Strong’sG2143
beauty, gracefulness
stem euprepei-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.
εὐ-πρέπεια, -ας, ἡ
(< εὐπρεπής, comely), [in LXX for הָדָר, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2143 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
goodly appearance, comeliness, εὐπρεπείᾳ προέχειν Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἀπρέπεια, Refs 5th c.BC+; majesty, εὐ. τῆς δόξης LXX+NT; dignity, Refs 3rd c.AD+; ἐστεφάνωσε ἁ πόλις.. -είας καὶ εὐνοίας ἕνεκα τᾶς ἐς τὰν πόλιν Refs 4th c.BC+
II speciousness, plausibility, εὐπρεπείᾳ λόγου Refs 5th c.BC+; pretext, with infinitive, Refs 1st 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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | euprepeias1×εὐπρέπεια | euprepeiais |
| object accusative | euprepeian | euprepeiain |
| direct address vocative | euprepeiar | euprepeiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | euprepeiau | euprepeiaiu |
| to, for dative | euprepeia | euprepeiai |
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
euprepeia 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
euprepeias“beauty”subjectnominative singular1×
James 1:11… tem anthem autou ekpiptata kai tas euprepeias teu prosōpeu auteu apoleta; houtōs kai …… plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich …