noun · masculine
hippeusos
Strong’sG2460
a mounted soldier
stem hippeus-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.
ἱππεύς, -έως (on acc. pl., -εῖς, ν. Bl., § 8, 2; Thack., Gr., 148),ὁ
(< ἵππος), [in LXX chiefly for פָּרָשׁ;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2460 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhip-yooce'
an equestrian, i.e. member of a cavalry corps
Fromfrom G2462;
King Jameshorseman.
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
genitive έως (-έω uncertain in Refs 5th c.AD+, Epic dialect ῆος, ὁ, (ἵππος) one who fights from a chariot, Refs 8th c.BC+; either of the driver or of the hero who fights, Refs; also of one who drives in a chariot-race, Refs
2 horseman, rider, cavalryman, ἰππήων στρότος Refs 7th c.BC+; τῆς πολιτείας ἱ. a public courier, Refs 5th c.AD+
3 groom, Class.Rev.Refs
II ἱππεῖς, in social and political sense, knights, forming an aristocracy in early Greek communities, Refs 4th c.BC+; at Sparta, a royal bodyguard, Refs 5th c.BC+; later, an aristocratic corps of cavalry, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 of the Roman equites, Refs 1st c.BC+; ἱππεὺς Ῥωμαίων,= Latin eques Romanus, Refs
III nimble kind of crab, Refs 4th c.BC+
IV kind of comet, Refs 1st c.AD+
V girl's ornament, Refs 2nd c.BC+
VI a measure, πυρῶν, ἀμυγδάλων, ἀλεύρων, Refs
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 | hippeusos | hippeusois |
| object accusative | hippeuson | hippeusoin2×ἱππεῖς |
| direct address vocative | hippeusor | hippeusoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | hippeusou | hippeusoiu |
| to, for dative | hippeuso | hippeusoi |
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
hippeuso 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
hippeusoin“horsemen”objectaccusative plural2×
Acts 23:23… diakosioi hopōs poreuileia heōs Kaisareiau, kai hippeusoin hebdomēkonta kai dexiolaboin diakosioi, apo tritau …… said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go …
Acts 23:32ta de epaurion easarantois toin hippeusoin aperchorō sun auto hupostrefala eis tan …… to the barracks and let the horsemen go on with him.