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noun · masculine

Greekφοῖνιξ (foinix)
Biblang

foinikos

Strong’sG5404

a palm tree, palm branch

stem foinik-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.

φοῖνιξ (on the accent, v. Bl., § 4, 2; WM, § 6, lc), -ικος, ὁ,

[in LXX for תָּמָר,תֹּמֶר,תִּמֹּרָה;]

the date-palm, palm: τὰ βαΐα τῶν φ., Jo 12:13; of palm branches, φοίνικες (as Arist., II Mac 10:7, al.), Re 7:9.†

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

Strong’s G5404 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidfoy'-nix

a palm-tree

Fromof uncertain derivation;

King Jamespalm (tree).

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
φοῖνιξ, ῑκος, ὁ, ἡ,
Phoenician, Φοῖνιξ ἀνὴρ ἀπατήλια εἰδώς Refs 8th c.BC+
2 feminine, γυνή Φοίνισσα Refs 8th c.BC+; Φοίνισσαι, name of plays by Euripides, Phrynichus, etc.; also Φ. ἐμπολά Refs 5th c.BC+; χθών, νᾶσος, etc., Refs 5th c.BC+; κώπη Refs 3rd c.BC+
II Carthaginian, ἀλαλατός Refs 5th c.BC+
B φοῖνιξ, ῑκος, ὁ, purple or crimson, because the discovery and earliest use of this colour was ascribed to the Phoenicians, Refs 8th c.BC+ —hence,
B.2 as adjective (feminine φοίνισσα Refs 5th c.BC+; φοῖνιξ as feminine, Refs 5th c.BC+, blood-bay, of a horse, Refs 8th c.BC+; of red cattle, φοίνισσα ἀγέλα Refs 5th c.BC+: of the colour of fire, φοίνισσα φλόξ Refs 5th c.BC+; πυρὸς φ. πνοά E.[same place]; also φ. ἱμάντες Refs 5th c.BC+
B.II date-palm, Phoenix dactylifera, Refs 8th c.BC+: the male and female distinguished by Refs 5th c.BC+
B.II.2 palm-frond, as a badge of victory, Arist Refs 3rd c.BC+
B.II.3 date, Refs 5th c.BC+; compare φοινικοβάλανος.
B.III ὁ χαμαιρριφής dwarf-palm, Chamaerops humilis, Refs 4th c.BC+
B.III.2 a Bactrian tree, Mazri palm, Nannorhops ritchieana, Refs
B.III.3 a sea-plant, Callophyllis laciniata, Refs
B.III.4 rye-grass, Lolium perenne, Refs 1st c.AD+
B.IV a musical instrument, like a guitar, invented by the Phoenicians, Refs 5th c.BC+; but so called because made from the Delian palm, accusative to Refs
B.V the fabulous bird phoenix, Refs 8th c.BC+; but from India, Refs 2nd c.AD+
B.VI an ornament, LXX
B.VII perfume prepared from the fronds of the date-palm, Refs 4th c.BC+
B.VIII a fish, Refs 2nd c.AD+
B.IX a bandage, Refs 1st c.AD+
B.X ={εὐρύνοτος}, Refs
B.XI φ. ἐν ὁπλῇ, a disease of the hoof, Refs
B.XII an eye-salve, Refs 4th 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.

palm branches1×palm trees1×

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativefoinikosfoinikois1×φοίνικες
object accusativefoinikonfoinikoin
direct address vocativefoinikorfoinikoir
of, belonging to genitivefoinikoufoinikoiu1×φοινίκων
to, for dativefoinikofoinikoi

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
foinikstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

foiniko 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.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

foinikois“palm branches”subjectnominative plural1×

Revelation 7:9… teu arnieu, peribalorēntoin stolain leukain, kai foinikois en tai cheirai autoiu;… were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.

foinikoiu“palm trees”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

John 12:13“palm trees”labala teim baieim toiu foinikoiu kai exerchala eis hupantēsian auto, kai …They took palm branches and went out to meet Him, shouting: “Hosanna!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Blessed …