noun · neuter
krinem
Strong’sG2918
a lily
stem krin-2 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.
κρίνον, -ου, τό
[in LXX chiefly for שׁוּשַׁן, שׁוֹשַׁנָּה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2918 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkree'-non
a lily
Fromperhaps a prim word;
King Jameslily.
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
irregular plural Refs 5th c.BC+; dative Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.:—white lily, Lilium candidum, Refs 4th c.BC+ Turk's cap lily, L. chalcedonicum, Refs 4th c.BC+: hence, of a needy man, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 Egyptian bean, Nelumbium speciosum, Refs 5th c.BC+
II kind of choral dance, Refs 5th c.BC+
III kind of loaf, Refs 2nd c.AD+
IV architectural ornament, Refs 3rd c.BC+
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 | krinem | krineim |
| of, belonging to genitive | krineu | krineiu |
| to, for dative | krine | krinei |
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
krine 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
krineim2×
Matthew 6:28… peri endumeu tinem merimnavō? katamathavar teim krineim tou agrou pōs auxanalō; ouk kopialō …… worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do …
Luke 12:27katanoavar teim krineim pōs auxanatō; ouk kopiatō oude nēthatō; …Consider how the lilies grow: They do not labor or …