noun · neuter
farmakem
Strong’sG5331
magic, sorcery, enchantment
stem farmak-once in the New Testament1 of 6 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.
φάρμακον, -ου, τό,
[in LXX for כֶּשֶׁף;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5331 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfar-mak-i'-ah
medication ("pharmacy"), i.e. (by extension) magic (literally or figuratively)
Fromfrom G5332;
King Jamessorcery, witchcraft.
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
use of drugs, especially of purgatives, Refs 5th c.BC+; αἱ ἄνω φ., i. e. emetics, Refs 4th c.BC+; of abortifacients, Refs 2nd c.AD+: generally, the use of any kind of drugs, potions, or spells, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 poisoning or witchcraft, Refs 4th c.BC+; αἱ περὶ τὰς φαρμακείας, ={αἱ φαρμακίδες}, Refs 4th c.BC+
II metaphorically, remedy, παιδιὰς προσάγειν φαρμακείας χάριν Refs
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 or object direct | farmakem | farmakeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | farmakeu | farmakeiu1×φαρμάκων |
| to, for dative | farmake | farmakei |
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
farmake 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
farmakeiu“sorceries”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Revelation 9:21“sorceries”… toiu fonoiu autoiu oute ek teiu farmakeiu autoiu oute ek tau porneiau autoiu …… not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.