noun · masculine
huakinthos
Strong’sG5192
jacinth
stem huakinth-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.
ὑακίνθος, -ου, ό
[in LXX chiefly for תְּכֵלֶת;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5192 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhoo-ak'-in-thos
the "hyacinth" or "jacinth", i.e. some gem of a deep blue color, probably the zirkon
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesjacinth.
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
Hyacinthus, a Laconian youth, beloved by Apollo, who killed him by an unlucky cast of the discus, Refs 5th c.BC+
B as appellative,
B.I ὑάκινθος, ὁ, Refs 8th c.BC+; but ἡ in Refs 7th c.BC+:—wild hyacinth, bluebell, Scilla bifolia, Refs 8th c.BC+
B.I.2 blue larkspur, Delphinium Ajacis, ὑ. σπαρτή Refs 4th c.BC+; said to have sprung up from the blood of Hyacinthus or (accusative to others) of Telamonian Ajax: and the ancients thought they could decipher on the petals the initial letters AI, or the interj. AIAI,Refs 2nd c.BC+; hence the epithets γραπτά Refs 3rd c.BC+
B.I.3 ὑ. πορφυρέη, probably Lilium Martagon, Refs 3rd c.BC+
B.II ὑάκινθος, ἡ Refs 1st c.AD+:—a precious stone, of blue colour Refs 1st c.AD+, perhaps aquamarine, NT+1st c.AD+
B.III name of a blue colour, Refs 1st c.AD+; blue stuff, LXX+1st c.AD+
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 | huakinthos1×ὑάκινθος | huakinthois |
| object accusative | huakinthon | huakinthoin |
| direct address vocative | huakinthor | huakinthoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | huakinthou | huakinthoiu |
| to, for dative | huakintho | huakinthoi |
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
huakintho 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
huakinthos“jacinth”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 21:20… topaziem, tos dekatos chrusoprasos, tos hendekatos huakinthos, tos dōdekatos amethustas;… topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.