humnos

Strong’sG5215

a hymn, sacred song

stem humn-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.

ὕμνος, -ου, ὁ

[in LXX for תְּהִלָּה, נְגִינָה, שִׁיר, etc.;]

a hymn;

(a) in cl. a festal song in praise of gods or heroes;

(b) in LXX and NT a song of praise addressed to God: Eph 5:19, Col 3:16.†

SYN.: ψαλμός, that which is sung to a musical accompaniment; ᾠδή, the generic term for song (cf. Tr., Syn., § lxxviii, Lft. on Col 3:16)

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

Strong’s G5215 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhoom'-nos

probably akin to G103; compare ); a "hymn" or religious ode (one of the Psalms)

Fromapparently from a simpler (obsolete) form of ὑδέω (to celebrate;

King Jameshymn.

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

ὕμνος, ὁ,
hymn, ode, in praise of gods or heroes (καί τι ἦν εἶδος ῳδῆς εὐχαὶ πρὸς θεούς, ὄνομα δὲ ὕμνοι ἐπεκαλοῦντο Refs 8th c.BC+; ὕμνῳ νικήσαντα φέρειν τρίποδ᾽ Refs 8th c.BC+; ὕμνοι θεῶν to or in honour of the gods, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὕμνοι Δαυείδ psalms of NT+6th c.AD+: in Trag. also of mournful songs, addressed to gods or heroes, τὸν δυσκέλαδον ὕ. Ἐρινύος Refs 5th c.BC+; ὕ. Ἅιδου, of one whose songs are death, Refs 2nd c.AD+ —On ὕμνοι of various kinds see Men.Rh.p.333 Refs 5th c.BC+. [Most commonly ῡ, but only by position; ῠ proved by εὔῠμνος (which see), ῠμνῳδεῖ Refs 5th c.BC+

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.

hymns2×

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	humnos	humnois
object accusative	humnon	humnoin
direct address vocative	humnor	humnoir
of, belonging to genitive	humnou	humnoiu
to, for dative	humno	humnoi2×ὕμνοις

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

humnstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

humno 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

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

humnamō — ὑμνέω, I sing, sing hymns to

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

humnoi“hymns”to, fordative plural2×

Ephesians 5:19lalarōntois heautoi psalmoi kai humnoi kai ōdai pneumatikai, adarōntois kai psallarōntois …Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make …

Colossians 3:16… sofia; didaskarōntois kai nouthetarōntois heautoin psalmoi, humnoi, ōdai pneumatikai en charita, adarōntois en …… wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in …