kentrem

Strong’sG2759

a sting, goad

stem kentr-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 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.

κέντρον, -ου, τό

(< κεντέω, to prick), [in LXX: Pr 26:3 (מֶתֶג), Ho 13:14 (קֹטֶב), 5:12, Si 38:25, IV Mac 14:19*;]

1. a sting (IV Mac 14:19): Re 9:10. Metaph. (as Ho 13:14): τ. θανάτου, I Co 15:55(LXX), 56.

2. a goad: pl., Ac 26:14.†

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

Strong’s G2759 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidken'-tron

a point ("centre"), i.e. a sting (figuratively, poison) or goad (figuratively, divine impulse)

Fromfrom κεντέω (to prick);

King Jamesprick, sting.

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

κέντρον, τό,
(κεντέω) any sharp point:
1 horse-goad, [ἵπποι] ἄνευ κέντροιο θέοντες Refs 8th c.BC+, ox-goad Refs 8th c.BC+, used as an instrument of torture, Refs 5th c.BC+; as a symbol of sovereignty, λαβὼν.. χερσὶν κέντρα κηδεύει πόλιν Refs 5th c.BC+
1.b metaphorically, goad, spur, incentive, Refs 5th c.BC+; ποῦ γὰρ τοσοῦτο κ. ὡς μητροκτονεῖ; Refs 5th c.BC+; κέντρα πτολέμοιο, of the Argives, Oracle texts cited in Refs 3rd c.BC+; κ. ἐμοῦ desire for me, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, in plural, tortures, pangs, NT
3 point of a spear, Refs 2nd c.BC+ with which Oedipus pierced his eyes, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 peg of a top, Refs 5th c.BC+
5 of animals,
5.a sting of bees and wasps, Refs 5th c.BC+; of scorpions, Refs 4th c.BC+ (so of the constellation Refs 4th c.BC+: hence, metaphorically, of malicious persons, ἐς τοὺς ἔχοντας κέντρ᾽ ἀφιᾶσιν Refs 5th c.BC+; of Pericles as an orator, τὸ κ. ἐγκατέλειπε τοῖς ἀκροωμένοις Refs 5th c.BC+; of Socrates, ὥσπερ μέλιττα τὸ κ. ἐγκαταλιπών Refs 5th c.BC+; βλέμματος κ. Onomarch. cited in Refs 2nd c.AD+
5.b spur of a cock, Refs
5.c quill of the porcupine, Refs 2nd c.AD+
5.d ={πόσθη}, Refs 3rd c.BC+
6 stationary point of a pair of compasses, Refs 1st c.BC+: generally, centre of a circle, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ἐκ τοῦ κ. (i.e. εὐθεῖα) radius, Refs 5th c.BC+; κ. βάρεος centre of gravity, Refs 3rd c.BC+ circumscribe, Refs 1st c.AD+
7 pin, rivet, Refs 2nd c.AD+; spur, tip, for fixing a machine in the ground, Refs
8 ῥακτηρίοις κέντροισιν, of oars, Refs 5th c.BC+
9 Astron., cardinal point on the ecliptic, Refs 2nd c.AD+
10 hard knot in stone, Refs 4th c.BC+; flaw in crystals, 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.

sting2×goads1×stings1×

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	kentrem2×κέντρον	kentreim
of, belonging to genitive	kentreu	kentreiu
to, for dative	kentre	kentrei

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

kentrstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

kentre 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.

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

kentrem“sting”subject or objectdirect singular2×

1 Corinthians 15:55… tem nikem? pou su, thanator, tem kentrem?… victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”

1 Corinthians 15:56tem de kentrem tou thanatou tas hamartas, tas de …The sting of death is sin, and the …

kentreim2×

Acts 26:14… tinem min diōkasō? sklērem si pros kentreim laktizarō.… for you to kick against the goads.’

Revelation 9:10“stings”kai echalō ourain homoiain skorpioi kai kentreim, kai en tai ourai autaiu tas …They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to …