noun · masculine
humenaios
Strong’sG5211
Hymenaeus
stem humenai-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
Ὑμέναιος, -ου, ὁ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5211 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhoo-men-ah'-yos
"hymenæal"; Hymenæus, an opponent of Christianity
Fromfrom Ὑμήν (the god of weddings);
King JamesHymenæus.
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
(Ὑμήν) the wedding or bridal song, sung by the bride's attendants as they led her to the bridegroom's house, Refs 8th c.BC+, etc.: Aeolic dialect ὐμήνᾰος Refs 7th c.BC+: a form ὑμήναιος in Refs 3rd c.BC+
2 wedding, Refs 5th c.BC+
II ={Ὑμήν}, Hymen, the god of marriage, addressed in wedding-songs, frequently in Trag. and Comedy texts (Lyric poetry), Ὑμὴν ὦ Υμέναι᾽ ἄναζ Refs 5th c.BC+; Ὑμὴν ὦ Ὑμέναι᾽ ὙμήνRefs 5th c.BC+; Doric dialect Ὑμὰν ὦ Ὑμέναιε Refs 3rd c.BC+; hence the two are used as one word, ὑμὴν ὑμέναιον ἀείδων Refs 3rd 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 | humenaios2×Ὑμέναιος | humenaiois |
| object accusative | humenaion | humenaioin |
| direct address vocative | humenaior | humenaioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | humenaiou | humenaioiu |
| to, for dative | humenaio | humenaioi |
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
humenaio 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
humenaios“Hymenaeus”subjectnominative singular2×
1 Timothy 1:20hoiu atō Humenaios kai Alexandros, hoin paradōama to Satano …Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed …
2 Timothy 2:17… hōs gangrainas noman echati; hoiu atō Humenaios kai Filētos,… spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,