noun · feminine
hermēneias
Strong’sG2058
translation, interpretation
stem hermēnei-2 times in the New Testament2 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.
ἑρμηνεία, v.s. ἑρμηνία.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2058 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidher-may-ni'-ah
translation
Fromfrom the same as G2059;
King Jamesinterpretation.
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
(ἑρμηνεύω) interpretation, explanation, Refs 5th c.BC+; especially of thoughts by words, expression, Refs 5th c.BC+; mediation, Refs 5th c.BC+; style, Refs 4th c.BC+; an expression, ἡ ἀκόλουθος ἑ. Refs 5th c.BC+ Plato's gifts of style, Refs 1st c.BC+
2 in Music, expression, Refs 1st c.AD+
3 translation, Aristeas 3, Refs 1st c.AD+; ἑ. ἔχειν to mean when translated, Refs 1st c.AD+
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 | hermēneias1×ἑρμηνεία | hermēneiais |
| object accusative | hermēneian1×ἑρμηνείαν | hermēneiain |
| direct address vocative | hermēneiar | hermēneiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | hermēneiau | hermēneiaiu |
| to, for dative | hermēneia | hermēneiai |
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
hermēneia 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
hermēneias“interpretation”subjectnominative singular1×
1 Corinthians 12:10… diakrisiais pneumeiu, hetero geneim glōssaiu, alloso hermēneias glōssaiu;… tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.
hermēneian“interpretation”objectaccusative singular1×
1 Corinthians 14:26… didachan echatō, apokalupsian echatō, glōssan echatō, hermēneian echatō; panteim pros oikodoman genotōr.… a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. All of these must be done …