gelōtos

Strong’sG1071

laughter

stem gelōt-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.

γέλως, -ωτος, ὁ,

[in LXX chiefly for שְׂחוֹק;]

laughter: Ja 4:9.†

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

Strong’s G1071 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidghel'-os

laughter (as a mark of gratification)

Fromfrom G1070;

King Jameslaughter.

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

γέλως,
Aeolic dialect γέλος, ὁ, genitive γέλωτος, Attic dialect γέλω: dative γέλωτι, Epic dialect γέλω or γέλῳ Refs 8th c.BC+, poetry (and late Prose, Refs 8th c.BC+: (γελάω):—laughter, γέλῳ ἔκθανον Refs 8th c.BC+; ἄσβεστον γέλω (variant{γέλον}) ὦρσενRefs 8th c.BC+; γέλωτα ποιεῖν, μηχανᾶσθαι, κινεῖν, Refs 5th c.BC+; γέλων ξυντιθέναι, γέλωτα ἄγειν, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐπὶ γέλωτι to provoke laughter, Refs 5th c.BC+; γέλωτος ἄξια ridiculous, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἅμα or σὺν γέλωτι, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν γέλωτι προφέρειν in joke, Refs 1st c.AD+; πολὺς γ. loud laughter, Refs 5th c.BC+; μέγιστος, ἰσχυρὸς γ., Refs 5th c.BC+; Σαρδόνιος γ. (see. Σαρδόνιος); Αἰάντειος γ. a maniac's laugh, Refs 4th c.AD+
2 metaphorically of waves, ={γέλασμα}, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II occasion of laughter, food for laughter, γ. γίγνομαί τινι Refs 5th c.BC+; ταῦτ᾽ οὐ γ. κλύειν ἐμο; Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰς γ. τρέπειν, ἐμβάλλειν, Refs 5th c.BC+
III dimple in the hinder parts, 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.

laughter1×

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	gelōtos1×γέλως	gelōtois
object accusative	gelōton	gelōtoin
direct address vocative	gelōtor	gelōtoir
of, belonging to genitive	gelōtou	gelōtoiu
to, for dative	gelōto	gelōtoi

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

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

gelōto 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

gelōtos“laughter”subjectnominative singular1×

James 4:9talaipōravar kai penthavar kai klaiavar; tos gelōtos vu eis penthem metatrepitar kai tas …Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to …