noun · feminine
ikmadas
Strong’sG2429
moisture
stem ikmad-once in the New Testament1 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.
ἰκμάς, -άδος, ἡ,
[in LXX. Je 17:8 (יוּבַל), Jb 26:14 (שֶׁמֶץ)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2429 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhik-mas'
dampness
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamesmoisture.
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
moisture, e.g. of oily leather, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀνιεὶς ἐκ τοῦ σώματος ἰκμάδα, of a corpse exposed to the sun, Refs 5th c.BC+ of moisture in the soil, NT; also θανόντων ἰσὶν οὐκ ἔνεστ᾽ ἰκμάς no blood, Refs 4th c.BC+; of the bodily humours, Refs 5th c.BC+; of all kinds of animal juices or moist secretions, τὸ περίττωμα τῆς ὑγρᾶς ἰ. ὃν καλοῦμεν ἱδρῶτα Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ τῶν καταμηνίων ἰ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἰ. Βάκχου, i.e. wine, Refs 3rd 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.
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 | ikmadas | ikmadais |
| object accusative | ikmadan1×ἰκμάδα | ikmadain |
| direct address vocative | ikmadar | ikmadair |
| of, belonging to genitive | ikmadau | ikmadaiu |
| to, for dative | ikmada | ikmadai |
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
ikmada 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
ikmadan“moisture”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 8:6… fuirantem xēranita dia tem mē echarō ikmadan.… seedlings withered because they had no moisture.