adjective
hippikem
Strong’sG2461
cavalry
stem hippik-once in the New Testament1 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.
** ἱππικός, -ή, -όν
(< ἵππος), [in LXX: I Mac 15:33, III Mac 1:1*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2461 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhip-pee-kon'
the cavalry force
Fromneuter of a derivative of G2462;
King Jameshorse(-men).
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
(ἵππος) of a horse or horses, frequently in Trag., ἱ. ἐκ πλευμόνων Refs 4th c.BC+; ἱ. φρυάγματαRefs 5th c.BC+; ὀχήματα, ἄντυγες,Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of horsemen or chariots, ἀγών Refs 5th c.BC+; ναυάγιαRefs 5th c.BC+
3 = Latin equester, τάξις, ἀξίωμα, Refs 1st c.BC+; of persons, of equestrian rank, ἱ. ἄνδρες Refs 1st c.BC+
II of riding or horsemanship, equestrian, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἱ. ἄσκησις training in horsemanship, Refs; ἱ. ἡγήτωρ leader of the knights, Refs; skilled in riding, opposed to ἄφιππος, Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative, Refs 1st c.BC+ K.: superlative, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 ἡ -κή (i.e. τέχνη), horsemanship, riding, Refs 5th c.BC+; περὶ -κῆς, title of treatise by Xenophon; ἱ. ἐπιστήμη Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ ἱ. [πράγματα] Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ἐμὴ ἱ. this riding of mine, Refs 5th c.BC+
III fit for riding, superlative -ώτατον, χρῆμα γυνή Refs 5th c.BC+
IV τὸ ἱ. the horse, cavalry, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ ἱ. Refs 2nd c.BC+
IV.2 course or space of four stadia, Refs 1st c.AD+
IV.2.b the circus at Rome, Refs
V adverb -κῶς like a horseman: superlative -κώτατα with best horsemanship, Refs 5th 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 | hippikos | hippikas | hippikem | hippikois | hippikais | hippikeim |
| object accusative | hippikon | hippikan | hippikoin | hippikain | ||
| direct address vocative | hippikor | hippikar | hippikoir | hippikair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | hippikou | hippikau | hippikeu1×ἱππικοῦ | hippikoiu | hippikaiu | hippikeiu |
| to, for dative | hippiko | hippika | hippike | hippikoi | hippikai | hippikei |
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
hippik 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
hippikeu“mounted”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Revelation 9:16kai tos arithmos teiu strateumeiu teu hippikeu dismuriadais muriadaiu; akouama ton arithmon auteiu.And the number of mounted troops was two hundred million; I …