noun · masculine
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;]
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
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.
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 | foinikos | foinikois1×φοίνικες |
| object accusative | foinikon | foinikoin |
| direct address vocative | foinikor | foinikoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | foinikou | foinikoiu1×φοινίκων |
| to, for dative | foiniko | foinikoi |
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
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 …