adjective
eusēmos
Strong’sG2154
with clear meaning, intelligible
stem eusēm-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.
εὔσημος, -ον
(< εὖ + οῆμα, a sign) [in LXX for כֶּסֶא, Ps 80 (81):3 (-ως, Da LXX 2:19)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2154 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Doric dialect εὔσᾱμος, ον, of good signs or omens, φάσμα ναυβάταις Refs 5th c.BC+
II easily known by signs, conspicuous, εὔσημον γὰρ οὔ μελανθάνει [τὸ πλοῖον] Refs 5th c.BC+; ἴχνη Refs 4th c.BC+; οὐκ εὔσημον, ὅθεν.. not easy to distinguish, Refs; legible, clear, ὅπως -σαμοτέρα ὑπάρχῃ ἁ ἀναγραφά Refs 3rd c.BC+; εὔ. γράμματα Refs 1st c.AD+; εὔ. προσαγόρευσις Refs 4th c.BC+; of sound, distinct, βοαι Refs 5th c.BC+; wellmarked, βραχίων Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.2 clear, intelligible, λόγον εὔ. δοῦναι NT+1st c.AD+
II.3 evident, τισι Refs 1st c.BC+
II.4 εὔσημα, τά, = Latin insignia, falsa lectio for{σύσσημα}, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.5 of garments, with fine edging, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II adverb -μως clearly, distinctly, ἔχειν Refs 4th c.BC+: superlative -ότατα 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | eusēmos | eusēmas | eusēmem | eusēmois | eusēmais | eusēmeim |
| object accusative | eusēmon1×εὔσημον | eusēman | eusēmoin | eusēmain | ||
| direct address vocative | eusēmor | eusēmar | eusēmoir | eusēmair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | eusēmou | eusēmau | eusēmeu | eusēmoiu | eusēmaiu | eusēmeiu |
| to, for dative | eusēmo | eusēma | eusēme | eusēmoi | eusēmai | eusēmei |
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
eusēm 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
eusēmon“intelligible”objectaccusative singular1×
1 Corinthians 14:9… vis dia tau glōssau ean mē eusēmon logon dōaveia, pōs gnōskiti tem lalorōntem? …… is with you. Unless you speak intelligible words with your tongue, how will …