noun · neuter
hormēmem
Strong’sG3731
a rushing on, impulse
stem hormēm-once in the New Testament1 of 6 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.
ὅρμημα, -τος, τό
(ὁρμάω), [in LXX: Ho 5:10, Am 1:11 (עֶבְרָה), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3731 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhor'-may-mah
an attack, i.e. (abstractly) precipitancy
Fromfrom G3730;
King Jamesviolence.
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
sudden rush, swoop, onset, ἀετοῦ LXX; of attacking troops,LXX; of the fall of a stone, NT: plural, rapid movement, ὁρμήμασι νηός, ={νηῒ ὁρμωμένη}, Oracle texts cited in Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 ={ὁρμή}, impulse, incitement, motive, μηδ᾽.. ἡμῶν τι συνεργὸν μηδ᾽ ὅ. Refs 4th c.BC+; τὸ ὅ. μου my indignation, LXX; θαλάσσης -ήματα, of the tides, Refs 5th c.AD+
II the earliest exception is Ἑλένης ὁρμήματά τε στοναχάς τε Refs 8th c.BC+ as the objective genitive, the cares (as if from ὁρμαίνω) and groans [of the Greeks] about Helen, i. e. caused by her; by the χωρίζοντες Refssearchings of heart and groans of Helen; the former view is more probably, but ὁ. may be from ὁρμάομαι and mean the rushes, struggles of war.
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 or object direct | hormēmem | hormēmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | hormēmeu | hormēmeiu |
| to, for dative | hormēme1×ὁρμήματι | hormēmei |
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
hormēme 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
hormēme“violence”to, fordative singular1×
Revelation 18:21… balata eis tan thalassan legarōntos; Houtōs hormēme baliti Babulōnas tas megas polas, kai …… into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will …