noun · neuter
iamem
Strong’sG2386
healing, curing
stem iam-3 times 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.
ἴαμα, -τος, τό
(< ἰάομαι), [in LXX for מַרְפֵּא (II Ch 36:16, Ec 10:4, Je 40 (33):6), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2386 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidee'-am-ah
a cure (the effect)
Fromfrom G2390;
King Jameshealing.
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
Ionic dialect ἴημα, ατος, τό, (ἰάομαι) remedy, medicine, Refs 5th c.BC+; στεναγμοί, τῶν πόνων ἰάματα variant in Refs 4th c.BC+
II ={ἴασις}, ἰάματα τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος καὶ τοῦ Ἀσκλαπιοῦ NT
II.2 soothing, pacification, LXX
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 | iamem | iameim |
| of, belonging to genitive | iameu | iameiu3×ἰαμάτων |
| to, for dative | iame | iamei |
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
iame 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
iameiu“healing”of, belonging togenitive plural3×
1 Corinthians 12:9… en te aute pneume, alloso charismeim iameiu en te hene pneume,… same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit,
1 Corinthians 12:28… tritem didaskaloin, epeita dunamiain, epeita charismeim iameiu, antilēmpsiain, kubernēsiain, geneim glōssaiu.… miracles, and those with gifts of healing, helping, administration, and various tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:30mē pantois charismeim echalō iameiu? mē pantois glōssai lalalō? mē pantois …Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do …