noun · feminine
isotas
Strong’sG2471
equality
stem isot-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 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.
ἰσότης, -ητος, ἡ
(< ἴσος), [in LXX: Jb 36:30, Za 4:7*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2471 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidee-sot'-ace
likeness (in condition or proportion); by implication, equity
King Jamesequal(-ity).
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
(ἴσος) equality, Refs 5th c.BC+ equality of ratios, proportion, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 especially political equality or justice, personified in Refs 5th c.BC+
II fair dealing, impartiality, NT+4th c.BC+
III equiformity, of the earth, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἰσοτής is said to be Hellenistic by Refs 2nd 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.
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 | isotas1×ἰσότης | isotais |
| object accusative | isotan1×ἰσότητα | isotain |
| direct address vocative | isotar | isotair |
| of, belonging to genitive | isotau1×ἰσότητος | isotaiu |
| to, for dative | isota | isotai |
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
isota 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
isotas“equality”subjectnominative singular1×
2 Corinthians 8:14… eis tem vu husterēmem, hopōs geneteia isotas;… need. This way there will be equality.
isotan“fairly”objectaccusative singular1×
Colossians 4:1“fairly”tois kurioir, tem dikaiem kai tan isotan toi douloi parechovōr, oidarēntois hoti kai …Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you also have a …
isotau“equality”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
2 Corinthians 8:13… allosoi anesias, vi thlipsias; alla ek isotau… burdened, but that there may be equality.