noun · masculine
goētos
Strong’sG1114
a conjurer, deceiver, imposter
stem goēt-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.
* γόης, -ητος, ὁ (γοάω, to wail),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1114 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidgo'-ace
properly, a wizard (as muttering spells), i.e. (by implication) an imposter
Fromfrom γοάω (to wail);
King Jamesseducer.
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
sorcerer, wizard, Phoronis 2, Refs 5th c.BC+; probably falsa lectio for{βοῇσι} Refs 5th c.BC+
2 juggler, cheat, δεινὸς γ. καὶ φαρμακεὺς καὶ σοφιστής Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative γοητότερος Refs 3rd c.AD+. (Cf. Lithuanian žavēti 'incantare'.)
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 | goētos | goētois1×γόητες |
| object accusative | goēton | goētoin |
| direct address vocative | goētor | goētoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | goētou | goētoiu |
| to, for dative | goēto | goētoi |
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
goēto 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
goētois“impostors”subjectnominative plural1×
2 Timothy 3:13“impostors”ponērois de anthrōpois kai goētois prokoptali epi tem cheirōnem, planarōntois kai …while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.