noun · feminine
homilias
Strong’sG3657
intercourse, companionship, conversation
stem homili-once 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.
ὁμιλία, -ας, ἡ
(< ὅμιλος), [in LXX: Ex 21:10 (עֹנָה), al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3657 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhom-il-ee'-ah
companionship ("homily"), i.e. (by implication) intercourse
Fromfrom G3658;
King Jamescommunication.
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
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, intercourse, company, ἔσθ᾽ ὁμιλίας κακῆς κάκιον οὐδέν Refs 4th c.BC+; ὁ. τινός communion or intercourse with one, Refs 5th c.BC+; τοὺς ἀξίους δὲ τῆς ἐμῆς ὁ. of my society, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁ. χθονός intercourse with a country, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔχειν ἐν θεοῖς ὁ. live among them, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ καθ᾽ ὑμᾶς αὐτοὺς πολιτεία καὶ ὁ. public and private life, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐξ ὁμιλίας by persuasion, opposed to βίᾳ, Refs 4th c.BC+: also in plural, ἀνθρώπων κακῶν-ίαι Refs 5th c.BC+; Ἑλληνικαὶ ὁ. association with Greeks, Refs 5th c.BC+; αἱ.. συγγενεῖς ὁ. intercourse with kinsfolk, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 sexual intercourse, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ πρὸς τοὺς ἄρρενας or τῶν ἀρρένων ὁ., Refs
3 instruction, Refs 5th c.BC+; lecture, Refs 2nd c.AD+: in plural, title of work by Refs 5th c.BC+
4 ὁμιλέειν ὁμιλίῃ to be versed in it by practice, opposed to λόγῳ εἰδέναι, Refs 5th c.BC+
5 ἡ πλείστη ὁ. τοῦ ὀνόματος its commonest usage, Refs 4th c.BC+; so ὁμιλίαι φωνῆς, αἱ τῶν λέξεων ὁ., Refs 5th c.BC+.; αἱ κοιναὶ ὁ. common usage, Refs 2nd c.AD+; τῶν ἰδιωτῶν -ίαιRefs 2nd c.AD+
II association, company, ἀνδρῶν τῶν ἀρίστων ἐπιλέξαντες ὁμιλίην Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 in collective sense, τήνδ᾽ ὁμιλίαν χθονός these fellow-sojourners in the land, Refs; ναὸς κοινόπλους ὁ. ship-mates, 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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | homilias | homiliais1×ὁμιλίαι |
| object accusative | homilian | homiliain |
| direct address vocative | homiliar | homiliair |
| of, belonging to genitive | homiliau | homiliaiu |
| to, for dative | homilia | homiliai |
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
homilia 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
homiliais“company”subjectnominative plural1×
1 Corinthians 15:33mē planovōr; ftheralō ētheim chrēsteim homiliais kakosais.Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”