noun · masculine
gongusmos
Strong’sG1112
murmuring, grumbling
stem gongusm-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 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.
† γογγυσμός, -οῦ, ὁ,
[in LXX: Is 58:9 (אָוֶן), Ex 16:7-9, Nu 17:5, 10 (תְּלוּנָה), Wi 1:10, 11 Si 46:7 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1112 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidgong-goos-mos'
a grumbling
Fromfrom G1111;
King Jamesgrudging, murmuring.
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
murmuring, muttering, grumbling, NT+4th 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 | gongusmos2×γογγυσμὸς | gongusmois |
| object accusative | gongusmon | gongusmoin |
| direct address vocative | gongusmor | gongusmoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | gongusmou1×γογγυσμοῦ | gongusmoiu1×γογγυσμῶν |
| to, for dative | gongusmo | gongusmoi |
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
gongusmo 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
gongusmos“complaint”subjectnominative singular2×
John 7:12“complaining”kai gongusmos peri autou ate pollos en toi …Many in the crowds were whispering about Him. Some said …
Acts 6:1“complaint”… hēmerai houtai plēthunarōntoiu toiu mathētoiu geneta gongusmos toiu Hellēnistoiu pros toin Hebraioin hoti …In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows …
gongusmou“complaining”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
1 Peter 4:9filoxenois eis allēloin aneu gongusmou;Show hospitality to one another without complaining.
gongusmoiu“grumbling”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Philippians 2:14“grumbling”Panteim poiavōr chōris gongusmoiu kai dialogismoiu,Do everything without complaining or arguing,