adjective
hapalos
Strong’sG527
tender
stem hapal-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 26 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.
ἀπαλός, -ή, -όν,
[in LXX for רַךְ;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G527 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidap-al-os'
soft
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamestender.
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
soft to the touch, tender: in Refs 8th c.BC+ mostly of the human body, ἁπαλὴν ὑπὸ δειρήνRefs 8th c.BC+; ἁ. τέ σφ᾽ ἦτορ ἀπηύρα, i. e. the life of young animals,Refs 8th c.BC+; of persons, delicate, παῖδεςRefs 7th c.BC+; of flowers, ἄνθρυσκα Refs; rare in Trag., and only in Lyric poetry, παρειάRefs 5th c.BC+; so in Prose, ἁ. ψυχήRefs 5th c.BC+; of raw fruit, Refs 5th c.BC+; of tender meat, Refs; soft-boiled, of eggs, Refs 5th c.AD+; of a gentle fire, Refs 4th c.BC+
II metaphorically, soft, gentle, ἁπαλὸν γελάσαι laugh gently, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἁ. δίαιτα soft, delicate, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἁ. εἴσπλους λιμένος, opposed to τραχύς, Refs 5th c.BC+adverb ἁπαλῶς, ὀπτᾶν to roast moderately, Refs 3rd c.BC+: comparative ἁπαλωτέρως, ἅπτεσθαιRefs 5th c.BC+
II.2 in bad sense, soft, weak, ὡς ἁ. καὶ λευκὸς [οἶνος] Refs 5th c.BC+. [ᾰπᾰλο; for καλάμῳ.. ὑπᾱπάλῳ, in Refs 3rd 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | hapalos2×ἁπαλὸς | hapalas | hapalem | hapalois | hapalais | hapaleim |
| object accusative | hapalon | hapalan | hapaloin | hapalain | ||
| direct address vocative | hapalor | hapalar | hapaloir | hapalair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | hapalou | hapalau | hapaleu | hapaloiu | hapalaiu | hapaleiu |
| to, for dative | hapalo | hapala | hapale | hapaloi | hapalai | hapalei |
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
hapal 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
hapalos“tender”subjectnominative singular2×
Matthew 24:32… hotan ēdē tos klados autau geneteia hapalos kai teim fulleim ekfuateiō, gnōskavō hoti …… As soon as its branches become tender and sprout leaves, you know that …
Mark 13:28… parabolan; hotan ēdē tos klados autau hapalos geneteia kai ekfuateiō teim fulleim, gnōskavō …… As soon as its branches become tender and sprout leaves, you know that …