noun · feminine
exochas
Strong’sG1851
eminence, distinction
stem exoch-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.
ἐξοχή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< ἐξέχω, to stand out), [in LXX for שֵׁן, Jb 39:28 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1851 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(ἐξέχω) prominence, ἐ. κεράτων elevated nature, LXX+4th c.BC+; ζῴων ἐξοχαί embossed figures on shields, Refs 1st c.BC+; wart, Refs 1st c.AD+ extremities of animals, Refs 1st c.AD+
II metaphorically, pre-eminence, ἐ. in nullo est, Refs 1st c.BC+; δι᾽ ἐξοχὴν μορφῆς Hierocl.p.55 Refs 4th c.BC+par excellence, Refs 2nd c.BC+; οἱ κατ᾽ ἐξοχὴν τῆς πόλεως leading men, NT
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 | exochas | exochais |
| object accusative | exochan1×ἐξοχὴν | exochain |
| direct address vocative | exochar | exochair |
| of, belonging to genitive | exochau | exochaiu |
| to, for dative | exocha | exochai |
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
exocha 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
exochan“prominent”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 25:23“prominent”… tē chiliarchoi kai androi toi kata exochan tau polau kai keleuarantou tou Fēstou …… along with the commanders and leading men of the city. And Festus ordered that …