noun · masculine
farmakos
Strong’sG5332
a magician, sorcerer
stem farmak-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.
φαρμακός, -ή, -όν
[in LXX for מְכַשֵׁף, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5332 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfar-mak-yoos'
a druggist ("pharmacist") or poisoner, i.e. (by extension) a magician
Fromfrom φάρμακον (a drug, i.e. spell-giving potion);
King Jamessorcerer.
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
poisoner, sorcerer, Refs 5th c.BC+
II druggist, apothecary, Refs 2nd 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 | farmakos | farmakois |
| object accusative | farmakon | farmakoin |
| direct address vocative | farmakor | farmakoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | farmakou | farmakoiu |
| to, for dative | farmako | farmakoi1×φαρμάκοις |
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
farmako 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
farmakoi“sorcerers”to, fordative plural1×
Revelation 21:8… bdelussorēntoi kai fonevoi kai pornoi kai farmakoi kai eidōlolatroi kai pantoi toi pseudēsoi …… and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their …