noun · feminine
iaspias
Strong’sG2393
jasper
stem iaspi-4 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.
ἴασπις, -ιδος, ἡ,
[in LXX: Ex 28:18 36:18 (39:11) (יַהֲלֹם), Is 54:12 (כַּדְכֹּד), Ez 28:13 (יָשְׁפֵה, v. BDB, Lex., s.v.)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2393 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidee'-as-pis
"jasper", a gem
Fromprobably of foreign origin (see );
King Jamesjasper.
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
(but accusative ἴασπιν Refs 5th c.AD+, ἡ, jasper, Refs 5th c.BC+
II ={χρυσόγονον}, Refs 1st c.AD+. (Cf. Hebrew yāšpheh).
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 | iaspias2×ἴασπις | iaspiais |
| object accusative | iaspian | iaspiain |
| direct address vocative | iaspiar | iaspiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | iaspiau | iaspiaiu |
| to, for dative | iaspia2×ἰάσπιδι | iaspiai |
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
iaspia 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
iaspias“jasper”subjectnominative singular2×
Revelation 21:18kai tas endōmēsias teu teicheu autau iaspias, kai tas polas chrusiem katharem homoiem …The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure …
Revelation 21:19… timio kosmorēntois; tos themelios tos prōtos iaspias, tos deuteros sapfiras, tos tritos chalkēdōnos, …… precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony …
iaspia“jasper”to, fordative singular2×
Revelation 4:3kai tos kathorōntos homoios horasia litho iaspia kai sardie, kai irias kuklothen tou …The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that …
Revelation 21:11… autau homoios litho timiotato, hōs litho iaspia krustallizarōnto;… a most precious jewel, like a jasper, as clear as crystal.