leias

Strong’sG3006

smooth, level

stem lei-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.

λεῖος, -εία, -εῖον,

[in LXX: Ge 27:11, I Ki 17:40 R (חָלָק, חַלּוּק); ὁδὸς λ., Is 40:4 Α (בִּקְעָה); Pr 2:20 12:13 26:23*;]

smooth: opp. to τραχύς, Lk 3:5(LXX).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3006 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidli'-os

smooth, i.e. "level"

Fromapparently a primary word;

King Jamessmooth.

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

λεῖος, α, ον,
smooth to the touch, [αἴγειρος] Refs 8th c.BC+; χῆμαι, χηραμβίς, Refs 3rd c.BC+, Refs 5th c.BC+; also, of cloths, smooth, plain, not embroidered, ὑφαντά τε καὶ λ. Refs 5th c.BC+; λεῖα ἐκπεποιημένα worked smooth, of marble, Refs unsculptured, Ἀθήνης ἕδος Refs 3rd c.BC+; of plate, unembossed, φιάλαι Refs 3rd c.BC+
2 in Refs 8th c.BC+, chiefly of level places or countries, λεῖος δ᾽ ἱππόδρομος ἀμφίς Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐν λείῳ πεδίῳRefs 8th c.BC+; λ. ἄροσις Refs 8th c.BC+; λεῖα δ᾽ ἐποίησεν made a smooth place, Refs 8th c.BC+; λ. θάλασσα a smooth sea, Refs 5th c.BC+; λ. βάσεις flat feet, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2.b with genitive, χῶρος.. λεῖος πετράων smooth (i.e. free) from rocks, Refs 8th c.BC+
3 smoothskinned, without hair, of animals, LXX+4th c.BC+; especially of youths, smooth-chinned, beardless (compare λείαξ), Refs 3rd c.BC+; also, of fish, smooth, ἱππίδια Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to λεπιδωτοί, Refs 4th c.BC+; [γαλεός] the smooth shark, Mustelus laevis,Refs 5th c.BC+; λείη ὑπόστασις a smooth or uniform sediment, Refs 2nd c.AD+
4 metaphorically, smooth, soft, πνεῦμα Refs 5th c.BC+; of the sound of the voice, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the taste, Refs 5th c.BC+; [τὸ] ἥμερόν τε καὶ λ. [τοῦ ἤθους] Refs 5th c.BC+; λ. πάθημα, opposed to τραχύ, Refs 4th c.BC+; λ. κίνησις, Cyrenaic phrase for ἡδονή, Refs 1st c.BC+; ὡς -οτέρου ἐλέους ὑπάρξοντος (sed to be read τελειοτέρου) Refs 2nd c.BC+; τὸ λ., ={λειότης, τῆς ἑρμηνείας} Refs 4th c.BC+ adverb λείως smoothly, gently, Refs 6th c.BC+
II rubbed or ground down, Refs 1st c.AD+, fine sand, Refs 3rd c.BC+. (Prob. λειϝος, cf. Latin lēvis.)

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.

smooth1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	leios	leias	leiem	leiois	leiais	leieim
object accusative	leion	leian		leioin	leiain1×λείας
direct address vocative	leior	leiar		leioir	leiair
of, belonging to genitive	leiou	leiau	leieu	leioiu	leiaiu	leieiu
to, for dative	leio	leia	leie	leioi	leiai	leiei

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

leistem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

lei 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

leiain“smooth”objectaccusative plural1×

Luke 3:5… euthuan kai tais trachuais eis hodain leiain;… made straight, and the rough ways smooth.