noun · masculine
hēlos
Strong’sG2247
a nail
stem hēl-2 times 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.
ἧλος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX: Is 41:7 (מַסְמְרִים) etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2247 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhay'-los
a stud, i.e. spike
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamesnail.
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
Doric dialect ἇλος, Refs 5th c.BC+ ϝάλλοι (plural) written γάλλοι, Refs 5th c.AD+: ὁ:— nail-head, stud, as an ornament, σκῆπτρον χρυσείοις ἥλοισι πεπαρμένον Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐν δέ οἱ [τῷ ξίφει] ἧλοι χρύσειοι πάμφαινονRefs 2nd c.AD+, c: hence, of the stars, Refs
2 after Refs 8th c.BC+, nail, Refs 5th c.BC+; of shoenails, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἥλῳ ὁ ἧλος (i.e. ἐκκρούεται) Refs 4th c.BC+
3 = Latin acutus (= spur), Refs
II wart, callus, 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 | hēlos | hēlois |
| object accusative | hēlon | hēloin |
| direct address vocative | hēlor | hēloir |
| of, belonging to genitive | hēlou | hēloiu2×ἥλων |
| to, for dative | hēlo | hēloi |
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
hēlo 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
hēloiu“nails”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
John 20:25“nails”… tai cheirai autou ton tupon toiu hēloiu kai balameia ton daktulon mu eis …… I see the nail marks in His hands, and put my finger where the nails have …
John 20:25… daktulon mu eis ton tupon toiu hēloiu kai balameia mu tan cheiran eis …… and put my finger where the nails have been, and put my hand …