lēros

Strong’sG3026

folly, nonsense, idle talk

stem lēr-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.

** λῆρος, -ου, ὁ,

[in LXX: IV Mac 5:10*;]

silly talk, nonsense: Lk 24:11.†

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

Strong’s G3026 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidlay'-ros

twaddle, i.e. an incredible story

Fromapparently a primary word;

King Jamesidle tale.

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

λῆρος, ὁ,

A trash, trumpery, of what is showy but useless, λήροις ἀναδῶν τοὺς νικῶντας Refs 5th c.BC+; λῆρόν τε τἄλλ᾽ ἡγεῖτο τοῦ γνῶναι πέρι φύσεις ποιητῶν no good as connoisseurs of poets,Refs 5th c.BC+; λ. εἶναι δοκεῖ τὸ νόμισμα, φύσει δ᾽ οὐθέν mere trash, Refs 4th c.BC+; a mere trifle, Refs 5th c.BC+; λ. ἐστι τἄλλα πρὸς Κινησίαν there's naught to compare with Cinesias, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ ποιηταὶ λ. εἰσιν useless, futile, Refs 5th c.BC+; λῆροι καὶ παιδιαί, of flute-playing at banquets, Refs 5th c.BC+; λῆροι καὶ φλυαρίαι futile nonsense, Refs 4th c.BC+; παροψίδες καὶ λῆρος side-dishes and suchlike trumpery, Refs 4th c.BC+; as an exclamation, λῆρος nonsense! humbug! Refs 5th c.BC+
A.2 delirium, Refs 5th c.BC+
A.II as adjective, silly, ποιητής Refs 2nd c.AD+. adverb -ρως Refs

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.

nonsense1×

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	lēros1×λῆρος	lērois
object accusative	lēron	lēroin
direct address vocative	lēror	lēroir
of, belonging to genitive	lērou	lēroiu
to, for dative	lēro	lēroi

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

lērstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

lēro 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

lēros“nonsense”subjectnominative singular1×

Luke 24:11kai fanila enōpion autoiu hōsei lēros teim rēmeim houteim, kai apistale autai.But their words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not …