noun · feminine

hormas

Greekὁρμή (hormē)

Strong’sG3730

a rush, violent assault

stem horm-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

attempt1×will1×

What it means

ὁρμή, -ῆς, ἡ,

[in LXX: Pr 3:25 (שֹׁאָה), etc.;]

1. a violent movement, impulse: Ja 3:4;

2. a hostile movement, onset, assault. Ac 14:5.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3730 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhor-may'

a violent impulse, i.e. onset

Fromof uncertain affinity;

King Jamesassault.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	hormas2×ὁρμὴ	hormais
object accusative	horman	hormain
direct address vocative	hormar	hormair
of, belonging to genitive	hormau	hormaiu
to, for dative	horma	hormai

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

hormstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

horma 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

Words built on the same stem

hormamō — ὁρμάω, I rush

Where it appears

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

hormas“will”subjectnominative singular2×

Acts 14:5“attempt”hōs de gineta hormas teiu ethneiu tē kai Ioudaioiu sun toi archōnoi autoiu hubrizara kai lithobolara autoin,But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,

James 3:4“will”idou kai teim ploieim, tēlikouteim arōteim kai hupo anemoiu sklēroiu elaunirōteim, metagitō hupo elachisteu pēdalieu hopou tas hormas tou euthunarōtou bouletō;Consider ships as well. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot is inclined.