noun · neuter
fullem
Strong’sG5444
a leaf
stem full-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 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.
φύλλον, -ου, τό
[in LXX chiefly for עָלֶה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5444 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfool'-lon
a sprout, i.e. leaf
Fromfrom the same as G5443;
King Jamesleaf.
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
leaf; in Epic dialect and Refs 5th c.BC+ always in plural leaves, or collectively foliage, φύλλα καὶ ὄζους Refs 8th c.BC+; πλεκτὰ φύλλα wreathed leaves, Refs; φύλλον ἐλαίας, poetry for ἐλάα, S.[same place]: metaphorically of choral songs, φύλλ᾽ ἀοιδᾶν Refs 5th c.BC+; of leaves used as voting-papers, Refs 3rd c.BC+
2 of flowers, petal, [ῥόδον] ἔχον ἑξήκοντα φύλλα Refs 5th c.BC+; ὑακίνθινα φ., λειμώνια φ., Refs 3rd c.BC+
II plant, in general, φ. ὂν ἐπινηχόμενον τῷ ὕδατι Refs 1st c.AD+; ἡ κατὰ φύλλον (with or without γεωμετρία) survey according to plants, i. e. crops grown, Refs 2nd c.BC+: especially of medicinal herbs, φ. εἴ τι νώδυνον κάτοιδε Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 as a name of definite species:
II.2.a ={βρυωνία}, dog Mercury, Mercurialis perennis, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2.b the leaf-like fruit of silphium, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2.c ={λευκάκανθα}, Refs 1st 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 or object direct | fullem | fulleim1×φύλλα |
| of, belonging to genitive | fulleu | fulleiu |
| to, for dative | fulle | fullei |
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
fulle 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.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
fulleim“leaves”subject or objectdirect plural1×
Revelation 22:2… apodōarōntem ton karpon auteu, kai teim fulleim teu xuleu eis therapeian teiu ethneiu.… crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the …
fulleim5×
Matthew 21:19… oudenem heuriskata en auta ei mē fulleim monem, kai legatō auta; Mēketi ek …… but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again …
Matthew 24:32… klados autau geneteia hapalos kai teim fulleim ekfuateiō, gnōskavō hoti engus tem therem;… its branches become tender and sprout leaves, you know that summer is near.
Mark 11:13kai horarantos sukan apo makrothen echarōntan fulleim erchata ei ara tinem heuriskati en …… the distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if there …
Mark 11:13… epi autan oudenem heuriskata ei mē fulleim, tos gar kairos ouk ate sukeiu.… He found nothing on it except leaves, since it was not the season …
Mark 13:28… autau hapalos geneteia kai ekfuateiō teim fulleim, gnōskavō hoti engus tem therem atō;… its branches become tender and sprout leaves, you know that summer is near.