lepidas

Strong’sG3013

a scale, scaly substance

stem lepid-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.

λεπίς, -ίδος, ἡ

(< λέπω, to peel) [in LXX chiefly for קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת;]

a scale: Ac 9:18.†

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

Strong’s G3013 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidlep-is'

a flake

Fromfrom λέπω (to peel);

King Jamesscale.

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

λεπ-ίς, ίδος, ἡ,
(λέπω) epithelial debris, Refs 5th c.BC+; layer of the skull, Refs; ᾠοῦ λ. egg-shell, Refs 5th c.BC+; cup of a filbert, Refs 1st c.AD+; coat of an onion, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 collectively, scales of fish, λεπίδος σιδηρέης ὄψιν ἰχθυοειδέος Refs 5th c.BC+; also of serpents, variant in Refs 5th c.BC+
3 of other things, λ. χαλκοῦ flakes that fly from copper in hammering, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 plate of metal, Refs 3rd c.BC+; of gold and silver, Refs 2nd c.BC+
5 λ. πρίονος blade of a saw, Refs 1st c.AD+
6 λεπίδες (i.e. χιόνος) snow-flakes, conjecture in Refs 4th 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.

scales1×

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	lepidas	lepidais1×λεπίδες
object accusative	lepidan	lepidain
direct address vocative	lepidar	lepidair
of, belonging to genitive	lepidau	lepidaiu
to, for dative	lepida	lepidai

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

lepidstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

lepida 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

lepidais“scales”subjectnominative plural1×

Acts 9:18… apopiptala autou apo toiu ofthalmoiu hōs lepidais, anablepata tē kai anastēarantos baptizita,At that instant, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and his …