kompsoterem

Strong’sG2866

in better health

stem kompsoter-once in the New Testament0 of 26 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.

* κομψός, -ή, -όν

(< κομέω, to take care of),

well-dressed, elegant, fine; compar. neut., κομψότερον ἔχειν (cf. κόμψως ἔχειν, Epict., and colloq. Eng., "to be doing finely"): Jo 4:52.†

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

Strong’s G2866 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkomp-sot'-er-on

figuratively, convalescent

Fromneuter comparative of a derivative of the base of 2865 (meaning, properly, well dressed, i.e. nice);

King James+ began to amend.

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

Related to: κομψ-ότης, ητος, ἡ,
elegance, prettiness, daintiness, especially of language, Refs 5th c.BC+; κ. ἱστορική, φυσική, 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.

better1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	kompsoteros	kompsoteras	kompsoterem	kompsoterois	kompsoterais	kompsotereim
object accusative	kompsoteron	kompsoteran		kompsoteroin	kompsoterain
direct address vocative	kompsoteror	kompsoterar		kompsoteroir	kompsoterair
of, belonging to genitive	kompsoterou	kompsoterau	kompsotereu	kompsoteroiu	kompsoteraiu	kompsotereiu
to, for dative	kompsotero	kompsotera	kompsotere	kompsoteroi	kompsoterai	kompsoterei

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

kompsoterstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

kompsoter 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

kompsoterem1×

John 4:52“better”… tan hōran para autoiu en ha kompsoterem echata; legala oun auto hoti Echthes …… as to the hour when his son had recovered, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh …