irias

Strong’sG2463

a rainbow

stem iri-2 times 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.

ἶρις, -ιδος, ἡ,

[in LXX: Ex 30:24 (קִדָּה)*, (קֶשֶׁת, Ge 9:13, Ez 1:28, is rendered by τόξον);]

1. Iris, the messenger of the gods.

2. a rainbow or halo: Re 4:3 10:1.

3. The plant Iris (cf. Ex 30:24).†

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

Strong’s G2463 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidee'-ris

a rainbow ("iris")

Fromperhaps from G2046 (as a symbol of the female messenger of the pagan deities);

King Jamesrainbow.

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

Included with: Ἶρις, ιδος, ἡ,
accusative Ἶριν, vocative Ἶρι:— “Iris”, the messenger of the gods among themselves, Refs 8th c.BC+, compare ὠκέα Ἶρις Refs 8th c.BC+
II as appellative, ἶρις, ἡ, genitive ἴριδος Refs 4th c.BC+; accusative ἶριν Refs 2nd c.BC+; Epic dialect dative plural ἴρισσιν (see. below):—rainbow, δράκοντες.., ἴρισσιν ἐοικότες, ἅς τε Κρονίων ἐν νέφεϊ στήριξε, τέρας μερόπων ἀνθρώπων Refs 8th c.BC+
II.2 any bright-coloured circle surrounding another body, as the lunar rainbow, Refs 4th c.BC+halo of candle, Refs 4th c.BC+; the iris of the eye, Refs 2nd c.AD+; also, section through the ciliary region, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.3 iridescent garment, Refs
II.4 various species of the botanical genus iris, e.g. the purple Iris, I. germanica or pallida, εὐάνθεμον ἶριν Refs 4th c.BC+; also, the white variety of it, I. florentina, from the rhizome of which the orris-root of commerce is made, Refs 4th c.BC+: in this sense some wrote it oxytone ἰρίς, ίδος, Refs
II.5 a precious stone, Refs 1st c.AD+

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.

rainbow2×

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	irias2×ἶρις	iriais
object accusative	irian	iriain
direct address vocative	iriar	iriair
of, belonging to genitive	iriau	iriaiu
to, for dative	iria	iriai

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

iristem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

iria 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.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

irias“rainbow”subjectnominative singular2×

Revelation 4:3… horasia litho iaspia kai sardie, kai irias kuklothen tou thronou homoios horasia smaragdino.… like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled …

Revelation 10:1… tou ouranou, peribalorēnton nefelan, kai tas irias epi tan kefalan autou, kai tem …… wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head. His face was …