noun · feminine
krithas
Strong’sG2915
barley
stem krith-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.
κριθή, -ῆς, ἡ,
[in LXX for שְׂעֹרָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2915 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkree-thay'
barley
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesbarley.
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
mostly in plural, barleycorns, barley (compare κρῖ), the meal being ἄλφιτα: Refs 8th c.BC+; οἶνος ἐκ κριθέων πεποιημένος a kind of beer, Refs 5th c.BC+, also of species of barley, Refs 4th c.BC+ millet, Sorghum halepense, Refs 4th c.BC+
II pustule on the eyelid, stye, Refs 5th c.BC+
III barley-corn, the smallest weight, Refs 4th c.BC+
IV in singular, ={πόσθη}, Refs 5th 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 nominative | krithas | krithais |
| object accusative | krithan | krithain |
| direct address vocative | krithar | krithair |
| of, belonging to genitive | krithau | krithaiu1×κριθῶν |
| to, for dative | kritha | krithai |
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
kritha 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
krithaiu“barley”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Revelation 6:6… Choinixas sitou dēnarieu, kai treis choinixais krithaiu dēnarieu; kai tem elaiem kai ton …… a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not …