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noun · masculine

exorkistos

Greekἐξορκιστής (exorkistēs)

Strong’sG1845

an exorcist

stem exorkist-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

exorcists

What it means

*† ἐξ-ορκιστής, -οῦ, ὁ

(< ἐξορκίζω),

1. one who administers an oath.
2. an exorcist: Ac 19:13.†

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

Strong’s G1845 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidex-or-kis-tace'

one that binds by an oath (or spell), i.e. (by implication) an "exorcist" (conjurer)

Fromfrom G1844;

King Jamesexorcist.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativeexorkistosexorkistois
object accusativeexorkistonexorkistoin
direct address vocativeexorkistorexorkistoir
of, belonging to genitiveexorkistouexorkistoiuἐξορκιστῶν
to, for dativeexorkistoexorkistoi

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
exorkiststem+ogender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

exorkisto 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

exorkistoiu“exorcists”of, belonging togenitive plural

Acts 19:13“exorcists”epicheirala de tinois kai toiu periercherōtoiu Ioudaioiu exorkistoiu onomazarō epi toin echarōtoin teim pneumeim teim ponēreim tem onomem tou kuriou Iēsu legarōtois; Horkizamō vin ton Iēsun hon Paulos kērussatō.Now there were some itinerant Jewish exorcists who tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those with evil spirits. They would say, “I command you by Jesus, whom Paul proclaims.”