noun · masculine
hualos
Strong’sG5194
glass
stem hual-2 times in the New Testament2 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.
ὕαλος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX: Jb 28:17 (זְכוּכִית) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5194 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhoo'-al-os
glass
Fromperhaps from the same as G5205 (as being transparent like rain);
King Jamesglass.
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
or ὕελος (see. below), ἡ, see Refs 4th c.BC+, ὁ:—the form ὕαλος is said to be Attic dialect, ὕελος Hellenic, Refs 5th c.BC+ and ὕαλο; ὕελος is read in NT+4th c.BC+; compare ὑάλινος:—originally some kind of crystalline stone, such as that used by the Ethiopians to enclose their mummies in, Refs 5th c.BC+rock-crystal, Refs 3rd c.AD+
2 a convex lens of crystal, used as a burning-glass, λίθος διαφανὴς ἀφ᾽ ἧς τὸ πῦρ ἅπτουσι Refs 5th c.BC+
II glass, first in Refs 5th c.BC+glass-ware, Refs 4th c.AD+
III ὕαλος χνοώδης, in Refs 7th c.AD+, is an absorbent of some kind:—ὕαλος is also explained by βόρβορος in Refs 5th c.AD+. [ῠᾰλος, as appears from Refs 5th c.BC+:—but late Poets make ῡ in some derivations to bring them into dactylic verses, ῡάλεος Refs; ῡέλινος Refs; ῡαλόεις Refs; ῡαλοειδής Refs 5th c.AD+; in iambic metre, ῡαλόχροα Refs
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 | hualos1×ὕαλος | hualois |
| object accusative | hualon | hualoin |
| direct address vocative | hualor | hualoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | hualou | hualoiu |
| to, for dative | hualo1×ὑάλῳ | hualoi |
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
hualo 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
hualos“glass”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 21:21… plateias tau polau chrusiem katharem hōs hualos diaugos.… was pure gold, as clear as glass.
hualo“glass”to, fordative singular1×
Revelation 21:18… kai tas polas chrusiem katharem homoiem hualo katharo;… of pure gold, as pure as glass.