noun · neuter
iōtem
Strong’sG2503
a small letter of the Greek alphabet
stem iōt-once 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.
ἰῶτα, τό,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2503 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidee-o'-tah
"iota", the name of the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, put (figuratively) for a very small part of anything
Fromof Hebrew origin (the tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet);
King Jamesjot.
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
indeclinable, (Hebrew yôd) the letter ι, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 line, stroke, on a sundial, Refs 3rd c.BC+
3 proverbial, of anything very small, smallest letter, jot, NT
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 | iōtem1×ἰῶτα | iōteim |
| of, belonging to genitive | iōteu | iōteiu |
| to, for dative | iōte | iōtei |
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
iōte 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
iōtem“smallest letter”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Matthew 5:18“smallest letter”… parerchateia tos ouranos kai tas gēas, iōtem henem ē henas keraias ouk mē …… truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke …