noun · neuter
kleem
Strong’sG2811
glory, fame, praise
stem kle-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.
κλέος, -ους, τό,
[in LXX: Jb 28:22 (שֵׁמַע) Jb 30:8*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2811 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkleh'-os
renown (as if being called)
Fromfrom a shorter form of G2564;
King Jamesglory.
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
Doric dialect κλέϝος Refs 8th c.BC+:— rumour, report, τί δὴ κ. ἔστ᾽ ἀνὰ ἄστ; Refs 8th c.BC+; σὸν κ. news of thee, Refsthe report of their coming, Refs 8th c.BC+; κείνου κατὰ κ. at the news of his coming, Refs 5th c.BC+; rumour, opposed to certainty, κ. οἶον ἀκούομεν οὐδέ τι ἴδμεν Refs 8th c.BC+
II goodreport, fame, frequently in Refs 8th c.BC+; κ. εἶναί τινι to be a glory to him,Refs 8th c.BC+[same place]; κ. ἀρέσθαι, εὑρέσθαι, Refs 5th c.BC+; γίνεσθε κατὰ κ. ὧδε μαχηταί in renown, Refs 3rd c.BC+; λαβεῖν Refs 5th c.BC+; κ. αἰχμᾶς glory in or for.., Refs 5th c.BC+; κ. σου μαντικόνRefs 5th c.BC+; κ. καταθέσθαι to lay up store of glory, Refs 5th c.BC+; ποῖον κ., εἰ..; NT the lays of their achievements, Refs 8th c.BC+
II.2 rarely in bad sense, δύσφαμον κ. ill repute, Refs 5th c.BC+ of whom there is least talk either for praise or blame. (Cf. Sanskrit śrávas 'fame', Slavonic slovo 'word', 'glory'; cognate with κλέω (A), κλύω.)
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 | kleem1×κλέος | kleeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | kleeu | kleeiu |
| to, for dative | klee | kleei |
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
klee 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
kleem“credit”subject or objectdirect singular1×
1 Peter 2:20poiem gar kleem ei hamartarōntois kai kolafizorōntois hupomenavi? alla …How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing …