noun · neuter
karfem
Strong’sG2595
a dry stalk, chip of wood
stem karf-6 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books0 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.
κάρφος, -εος (-ους) τό,
[in LXX: Ge 8:11 (טָרָף)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2595 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkar'-fos
a dry twig or straw
Fromfrom κάρφω (to wither);
King Jamesmote.
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
any small dry body, especially dry stalk, as of the dry sticks of cinnamon, Refs 5th c.BC+; of rice-straw, Refs 2nd c.AD+: generally, in plural, dry twigs, chips, straws, bits of wool, such as birds make their nests of, Refs 5th c.BC+: in singular, chip of wood, Refs 5th c.BC+; toothpick, Refs 4th c.AD+. 'not stirring an inch', Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀπὸ τῆς κύλικος κάρφος τῷ μικρῷ δακτύλῳ ἀφαιρετεῖν Ion Hist.1.
II = Latin festuca, Refs 1st c.AD+
III a small piece of wood on which the watchword was written, Refs 2nd c.BC+
IV in plural, ripe fruit, Refs 2nd c.BC+
V ={τῆλις}, Refs 1st c.AD+ in A.[same place], Plb.[same place]: perhaps cognate with Engl. sharp.)
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 | karfem | karfeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | karfeu | karfeiu |
| to, for dative | karfe | karfei |
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
karfe 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.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
karfem6×
Matthew 7:3tinem de blepasō tem karfem tem en to ofthalmo tou adelfou …Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but fail …
Matthew 7:4… to adelfo su; Afiēkasar ekbalameia tem karfem ek tou ofthalmou su, kai idou …… your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there …
Matthew 7:5… dokan, kai tote diablepasi ekbalara tem karfem ek tou ofthalmou tou adelfou su.… will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Luke 6:41tinem de blepasō tem karfem tem en to ofthalmo tou adelfou …Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but fail …
Luke 6:42… adelfo su; Adelfor, afiēkasar ekbalameia tem karfem tem en to ofthalmo su, autos …… say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you …
Luke 6:42… ofthalmou su, kai tote diablepasi tem karfem tem en to ofthalmo tou adelfou …… will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.