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noun · feminine

lēthas

Greekλήθη (lēthē)

Strong’sG3024

forgetfulness

stem lēth-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

forgotten

What it means

λήθη, -ης, ἡ

(< λήθω = λανθάνω), [in LXX: Le 5:15 (מַעַל), Wi 16:11, Si 14:7, al.;]

forgetfulness: λ. λαβεῖν (on the phrase, v. Mayor, in l.): II Pe 1:9.†

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

Strong’s G3024 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidlay'-thay

forgetfulness

Fromfrom G2990;

King James+ forget.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativelēthaslēthais
object accusativelēthanλήθηνlēthain
direct address vocativelētharlēthair
of, belonging to genitivelēthaulēthaiu
to, for dativelēthalēthai

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
lēthstem+agender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

lētha 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

lēthan“forgotten”objectaccusative singular

2 Peter 1:9“forgotten”ho gar mē pareiatō houteim, tuflos atō muōpazarōtos, lēthan lambaratos tou katharismou taiu palai autou hamartēmeiu.But whoever lacks these traits is nearsighted to the point of blindness, having forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.