noun · neuter
helkem
Strong’sG1668
a festering sore
stem helk-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 6 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.
ἕλκος, -εος (-ους), τό
[in LXX: Ex 9:9-11, Le 13:18-27, IV Ki 20:7, Jb 2:7 (שְׁחִין);]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1668 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhel'-kos
an ulcer (as if drawn together)
Fromprobably from G1670;
King Jamessore.
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
wound, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 festering wound, sore, ulcer, ἕ. ὕδρου the festering bite of a serpent, Refs 8th c.BC+; plague-ulcer, Refs 5th c.BC+, and both 1.1 and 1.2 are treated in Refs 5th c.BC+; ἕ. is applied to amputations in Refs
II metaphorically, wound, loss, Refs 6th c.BC+; ὑποκάρδιον ἕ. Refs 3rd c.BC+, cf. Latin ulcus, Sanskritárśas (n.) 'haemorrhoid': ἕ- by influence of ἕλκω.)
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 or object direct | helkem1×ἕλκος | helkeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | helkeu | helkeiu1×ἑλκῶν |
| to, for dative | helke | helkei |
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
helke 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
helkem“sore”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Revelation 16:2“sore”… autou eis tan gēan; kai geneta helkem kakosem kai ponērem epi toin anthrōpoin …… poured out his bowl on the earth, and loathsome, malignant sores broke out on those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its …
helkeiu“sores”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Revelation 16:11… toiu ponoiu autoiu kai ek teiu helkeiu autoiu, kai ouk metanoala ek teiu …… of heaven for their pains and sores. Yet they did not repent of …
helkeim1×
Luke 16:21… kai tois kunois erchorōntois epileichale teim helkeim autou.… the dogs came and licked his sores.