leptem

Strong’sG3016

a small piece of money

stem lept-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.

* λεπτός, -ή, -όν

(λέπω, to peel),

1. peeled.

2. fine, thin, small, light; hence, in late Gk., as subst. τὸ λ., a small coin (one-eighth of an as, AV, mite): Mk 12:42, Lk 12:59 21:2.†

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

Strong’s G3016 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidlep-ton'

something scaled (light), i.e. a small coin

Fromneuter of a derivative of the same as G3013;

King Jamesmite.

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

λεπτός, ή, όν,
(λέπω) rare in literal sense, peeled, husked, ῥίμφα τε λέπτ᾽ ἐγένοντο, of barley being threshed out, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 fine, small, κονίη Refs 5th c.BC+; of soil, light, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 thin, fine, delicate, frequently in Refs 8th c.BC+, mostly of garments and the Refs 8th c.BC+; πέπλοι, φᾶρος, Refs 8th c.BC+; ῥινὸς βοός Refs 8th c.BC+; δέρμα Refs 4th c.BC+; τρίχες Refs; σάρξ Refs 5th c.BC+; λεπτὰ τὰ πρῴραθεν ἔχειν, of ships, to have the bows thin and weak, Refs
4 of the human figure, mostly in bad sense, thin, lean, Refs 7th c.BC+; opposed to παχύς, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐγὼ δὲ λεπτὴ κἀσθενής Refs 8th c.BC+; of animals, Refs 5th c.BC+; also, slender, taper (opposed to παχύς), δάκτυλος Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀπολήγειν εἰς λεπτόν, of the fingers of a statue, Refs 2nd c.AD+
5 of space, strait, narrow, εἰσίθμη Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐπὶ λεπτὸν τετάχθαι in a thin line, Refs 5th c.BC+
6 generally, small, weak, impotent, λεπτὴ μῆτις Refs 8th c.BC+; λ. ἴχνη faint traces, Refs 5th c.BC+; λ. οὖας, of a child's ear, tiny, Refs 4th c.BC+; τὰ λ. τῶν προβάτων small cattle, i.e. sheep and goats, Refs 5th c.BC+; λ. πλοῖα small craft, Refs; ἄκραι λ. small headlands, Refs 5th c.BC+; see below 111.2. adverb -τῶς, ζῆν poorly, meanly, Refs 4th c.BC+: neuter plural as adverb, λεπτὰ λεύσσω κόραις Refs 5th c.BC+
7 light, slight, λεπταῖς ὑπαὶ κώνωπος.. ῥιπαῖσι Refs 4th c.BC+; λ. πνοαί light breezes, Refs 5th c.BC+; λεπταῖς ἐπὶ ῥοπῇσιν on slight turns of fortune, Refs 5th c.BC+
8 of size or quantity, λ. πυρίδια small, Refs 5th c.BC+ adverb, λ. τῖλαι 'pluck into small pieces', Refs 3rd c.BC+
9 of liquids, thin, γάλα Refs 5th c.BC+; λ. οἶνος light wine, Refs 2nd c.AD+; also of food, λ. δίαιται Refs 5th c.BC+ adverb -τῶς, διαιτᾶσθαι, διαιτᾶνRefs 2nd c.AD+
10 ={λεπτομερής}, consisting of fine parts, ὅσῳ -ότερον ἀὴρ ὕδατος Refs 4th c.BC+
II metaphorically, subtle, refined, νοῦς Refs 5th c.BC+; - ότατοι λῆροι Refs 5th c.BC+; compare λεπτολόγος. adverb - τῶς, μεριμνᾶν Refs 4th c.BC+: comparative -οτέρως Refs 4th c.BC+in detail, Refs 5th c.BC+ see at {νιφετός}; compare κατάλεπτον, καταλεπτολογέω: τὰ κατὰ λεπτόν, title of poems by Aratus, Refs 1st c.BC+; also of minor poems of Virgil; τῶν κατὰ λεπτὸν πόρων ἀραίωσις, perhaps small pores, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 rarely of the voice, fine, delicate, Refs 5th c.BC+: neuter as adverb, λεπτὸν ἀμφιτιττυβίζειν Refs 5th c.BC+; of sound, λ. ὑποτρύζουσα Refs 6th c.AD+; compare λεπταλέος.
II.3 of smell, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.4 of persons, οἱ λ. the poor, Refs 2nd c.BC+; λεπτὴν πλέκειν, proverbial of poor people, Refs 5th c.AD+
III substantive λεπτόν (i.e. ἔντερον), τό, the small intestine, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.2 (i.e. νόμισμα) a very small coin, NT, Phot. see at {ὀβολός}; compare#1.6.
III.3 (i.e. κεράμιον) jar, Refs 2nd c.AD+; compare λεπτίον, λεπτοκεραμεύς.
III.4 Astron. (i.e. ἑξηκοστόν), division of a degree, πρῶτα λεπτά, = minutes, δεύτερα λ., = seconds, Refs 1st c.BC+; λεπτά alone, = minutes, Refs 1st c.AD+

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.

small copper coins2×penny1×

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	leptos	leptas	leptem1×λεπτὸν	leptois	leptais	lepteim2×λεπτὰ
object accusative	lepton	leptan		leptoin	leptain
direct address vocative	leptor	leptar		leptoir	leptair
of, belonging to genitive	leptou	leptau	lepteu	leptoiu	leptaiu	lepteiu
to, for dative	lepto	lepta	lepte	leptoi	leptai	leptei

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

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

lept 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.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

leptem“penny”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Luke 12:59… exerchaseia ekeithen heōs kai tem eschatem leptem apodōaseia.… you have paid the very last penny.”

lepteim“small copper coins”subject or objectdirect plural2×

Mark 12:42kai ercharantas henas chēras ptōchas balata lepteim duo, hem atō kodrantos.… widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction …

Luke 21:2… de tinan chēran penichran balarōntan ekei lepteim duo,… a poor widow put in two small copper coins.