noun · neuter
lachanem
Strong’sG3001
an herb, garden plant
stem lachan-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books1 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.
λάχανον, -ου, τό
(λαχαίνω, to dig), [in LXX: Ge 9:3, III Ki 20 (21):2, Ps 36 (37):2, Pr 15:17 (יֶרֶק, יָרָק)*;]
SYN.: βοτάνη, q.v.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3001 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlakh'-an-on
a vegetable
Fromfrom λαχαίνω (to dig);
King Jamesherb.
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, garden-herbs, opposed to wild plants, vegetables, Refs 5th c.BC+ not a single herb, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν τῷ λ. τούτῳ, i.e. the lettuce, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 in plural also, the vegetable-market, 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 or object direct | lachanem | lachaneim |
| of, belonging to genitive | lachaneu | lachaneiu2×λαχάνων |
| to, for dative | lachane | lachanei |
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
lachane 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
lachaneiu“garden plants”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Matthew 13:32… spermeiu, hotan de auxaniteia megoterem teiu lachaneiu atō kai genotō dendrem, hōste erchara …… it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that …
Mark 4:32… anabainatō kai genotō megoterem panteiu teiu lachaneiu kai poiatō kladoin megoin, hōste dunorō …… to be the largest of all garden plants and puts forth great branches, so …
lachanem1×
Luke 11:42“garden herb”… hēduosmem kai tem pēganem kai pantem lachanem, kai parerchovō tan krisian kai tan …… tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.
lachaneim1×
Romans 14:2… pisteuatō esthiara panteim, tos de asthenarōntos lachaneim esthiatō.… another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.