noun · feminine
fēmas
Strong’sG5345
a report, fame
stem fēm-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
φήμη, -ης, ἡ
(< φημί) [in LXX: Pr 16:2 (15:30) (שְׁמוּעָה), II Mac 4:39, III Mac 3:2, IV Mac 4:22 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5345 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfay'-may
a saying, i.e. rumor ("fame")
Fromfrom G5346;
King Jamesfame.
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
Aeolic dialect and Doric dialect φάμα, Refs 7th c.BC+; pseudo-Doric dialect φήμα Refs 5th c.BC+: (φημί).
I utterance prompted by the gods, significant or prophetic saying, χαῖρε δὲ φήμῃ Ὀδυσσῆος φίλος υἱός Refs 8th c.BC+, ubi see Refs 8th c.BC+; φ. and κλεηδών are interchanged, Refs 5th c.BC+ {φημί}; φ. about a τέρας, Refs 5th c.BC+; τοῦ ὀνείρου ἡ φ. the message of the dream, Refs 5th c.BC+ominis causa, Refs 5th c.BC+; τῇ πόλει (i.e. Aquileia) ἀετὸς οἴκιζομένῃ τὴν αὑτοῦ φ. χαρίζεται Refs 5th c.BC+; φ. ἀγαθὴν λέξομεν ={εὐφημίαν παρέξομεν}, Refs
I.2 report, rumour, usually of uncertain and mysterious origin, φήμη οὔ τις πάμπαν ἀπόλλυται, ἥν τινα πολλοὶ λαοὶ φημίξωσι· θεός νύ τίς ἐστι καὶ αὐτή Refs 8th c.BC+; Φήμης βωμός Scholia (at [prev. work]), Refs 2nd c.AD+; common report, opposed to συκοφαντία, Refs 7th c.BC+
I.3 report of a man's character, repute, δεινὴν δὲ βροτῶν ὑπαλεύεο φήμην· φ. γάρ τε κακὴ πέλεται, κούφη μὲν ἀεῖραι—ῥεῖα μάλ᾽, ἀργαλέη δὲ φέρειν, χαλεπὴ δ᾽ ἀποθέσθαι Refs 8th c.BC+:—especially of good report, fame, περιχαρὴς τῇ φ. Refs 5th c.BC+; αἰσχρὰ φ., opposed to καλὴ δόξα, Refs 5th c.BC+
I.4 φᾶμαι songs of praise, Refs 5th c.BC+
II any voice or words, speech, saying, λόγων φ. poetry periphrastic for λόγοι, Refs 5th c.BC+; especially common report, tradition, legend, ἀλλ᾽ ἔστι φήμη.. Refs 5th c.BC+; μνήμην παρὰ τῆς φήμης λαβών Refs 5th c.BC+
II.b common report or parlance, Refs 3rd c.BC+; ὅσους ἡ κοινὴ φ. παραδέδωκεν [θεούς] Refs 1st c.BC+
II.2 message, Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | fēmas2×φήμη | fēmais |
| object accusative | fēman | fēmain |
| direct address vocative | fēmar | fēmair |
| of, belonging to genitive | fēmau | fēmaiu |
| to, for dative | fēma | fēmai |
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
fēma 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
fēmas“news”subjectnominative singular2×
Matthew 9:26“report”kai exerchata tas fēmas houtas eis holan tan gēan ekeinan.And the news about this spread throughout that region.
Luke 4:14… teu pneumeu eis tan Galilaian. kai fēmas exerchata kata holau tau perichōrau peri …… power of the Spirit, and the news about Him spread throughout the surrounding …