noun · masculine
gnafevos
Strong’sG1102
a fuller, cloth-dresser
stem gnafev-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.
γναφεύς, -έως, ὁ, Ion. and κοινή form of Att. κναφεύς
(< κνάπτω, to card wool), [in LXX for כָּבַס, IV Ki 18:17, Is 7:3 36:2*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1102 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidgnaf-yuce'
a cloth-dresser
Fromby variation for a derivative from κνάπτω (to tease cloth);
King Jamesfuller.
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
fuller, cloth-carder or dresser, Refs 6th c.BC+; γνᾰφ-, Refs 5th c.BC+, and usually in later Gr., Refs 3rd c.BC+, etc.; but κναφεύς Refs 2nd c.AD+
II γναφεύς, kind of fish, Refs 1st 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 | gnafevos1×γναφεὺς | gnafevois |
| object accusative | gnafevon | gnafevoin |
| direct address vocative | gnafevor | gnafevoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | gnafevou | gnafevoiu |
| to, for dative | gnafevo | gnafevoi |
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
gnafevo 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
gnafevos“launderer”subjectnominative singular1×
Mark 9:3… autou geneta stilbarōnteim leukeim liōs hoieim gnafevos epi tau gēau ouk dunotō houtōs …… became radiantly white, brighter than any launderer on earth could bleach them.