noun · neuter
leimmem
Strong’sG3005
a remnant, remainder
stem leimm-once in the New Testament1 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.
λεῖμμα (WH, λίμμα, v. their App., 154), -τος, τό
(< λείπω), [in LXX: IV Ki 19:4 A (שְׁאֵרִית)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3005 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlime'-mah
a remainder
Fromfrom G3007;
King Jamesremnant.
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
(λείπω) remnant, residue, Refs 1st c.BC+ what was left of him, his remains, Refs 5th c.BC+; so, of persons, LXX+NT
2 in Music, interval of Refsleft over when two τόνοι of Refs 4th c.BC+; misunderstood as the number 13 (256—243) by Refs 1st c.AD+
2.b in Rhythmic, the shortest pause, λ. ἐν ῥυθμῷ χρόνος κενὸς ἐλάχιστος Refs 3rd c.AD+
3 in Medicine, intermission in fever, Refs 4th c.BC+
4 deficiency, μὴ γενέσθαι μήτε δανεισμὸν μήτε λ. περὶ ταύτας τᾶς εἰσφορᾶς 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 or object direct | leimmem1×λεῖμμα | leimmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | leimmeu | leimmeiu |
| to, for dative | leimme | leimmei |
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
leimme 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
leimmem“remnant”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Romans 11:5… oun kai en to nun kairo leimmem kata eklogan charitau genatē;… the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.