noun · masculine
krustallos
Strong’sG2930
crystal
stem krustall-2 times in the New Testament2 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.
κρύσταλλος, -ου, ὁ
(< κρύος, frost), [in LXX: Jb 38:29, Ps 147:6, (17), Ez 1:22 (קֶרַח), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2930 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkroos'-tal-los
ice, i.e. (by analogy) rock "crystal"
Fromfrom a derivative of κρύος (frost);
King Jamescrystal.
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
(κρύος, κρυσταίνομαι) ice, Refs 8th c.BC+; ὁ παῖς τὸν κρύσταλλον proverbial, of persons who cannot keep a thing, but do not wish to let it go, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 ={νάρκη}, numbness, torpor, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II rock-crystal, Refs 1st c.BC+: as adjective, Refs 1st 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 | krustallos | krustallois |
| object accusative | krustallon1×κρύσταλλον | krustalloin |
| direct address vocative | krustallor | krustalloir |
| of, belonging to genitive | krustallou | krustalloiu |
| to, for dative | krustallo1×κρυστάλλῳ | krustalloi |
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
krustallo 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
krustallon“crystal”objectaccusative singular1×
Revelation 22:1… mi potamon hudeu zōau lampron hōs krustallon, ekporeuorōnton ek tou thronou tou theou …… water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God …
krustallo“crystal”to, fordative singular1×
Revelation 4:6… tou thronou hōs thalassas hualinas homoias krustallo. Kai en mese tou thronou kai …… sea of glass, as clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne …