noun · masculine
halievos
Strong’sG231
a fisherman
stem haliev-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
ἁλιεύς, v.s. ἁλεεύς.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G231 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhal-ee-yoos'
a sailor (as engaged on the salt water), i.e. (by implication) a fisher
Fromfrom G251;
King Jamesfisher(-man).
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
(later written ἁλεεύςLXX+NT, ὁ, genitive έως, Ionic ῆος, and contraction ἁλιῶςRefs 5th c.BC+:—one who has to do with the sea, and so,
1 fisher, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 seaman, sailor, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐρέτας ἁλιῆας rowers on the sea, Refs; as adjective, ἁλιεὺς στρατός Refs
3 a fish, ={βάτραχος}, Refs 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 | halievos | halievois3×ἁλιεῖς |
| object accusative | halievon | halievoin2×ἁλιεῖς |
| direct address vocative | halievor | halievoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | halievou | halievoiu |
| to, for dative | halievo | halievoi |
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
halievo 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
halievois“fishermen”subjectnominative plural3×
Matthew 4:18… amfiblēstrem eis tan thalassan, ale gar halievois;… into the sea, for they were fishermen.
Mark 1:16… amfiballarōntoin en ta thalassa, ale gar halievois;… into the sea, for they were fishermen.
Luke 5:2… stēarēnteim para tan limnan, tois de halievois apo auteiu apobainarantois plunale teim diktueim.… the edge of the lake. The fishermen had left them and were washing …
halievoin“fishers”objectaccusative plural2×
Matthew 4:19… Deute opisō mu, kai poiami vin halievoin anthrōpoiu.… said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
Mark 1:17… opisō mu, kai poiami vin genera halievoin anthrōpoiu.… said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”