lēthas

Strong’sG3024

forgetfulness

stem lēth-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.

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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

λήθ-η,
Doric dialect λάθα, ἡ, forgetting, forgetfulness, personified in Refs 8th c.BC+; λήθην ποιεύμενος τά μιν ἐόργεε forgetting.., Refs 5th c.BC+; λήθη λαμβάνει, ἔχει τινά, Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰς λ. ἀφιγμένα forgotten, Refs 1st c.BC+
II after Refs 8th c.BC+, of a place of oblivion in the lower world, Λήθης δόμοι Refs 5th c.BC+; also, ὁ τῆς Λήθης ποταμός, of the river Λιμαίας in Lusitania, Refs 1st 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.

forgotten1×

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	lēthas	lēthais
object accusative	lēthan1×λήθην	lēthain
direct address vocative	lēthar	lēthair
of, belonging to genitive	lēthau	lēthaiu
to, for dative	lētha	lēthai

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+snru—its 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

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

lēthan“forgotten”objectaccusative singular1×

2 Peter 1:9… mē pareiatō houteim, tuflos atō muōpazarōntos, lēthan labarantos tou katharismou taiu palai autou …… to the point of blindness, having forgotten that he has been cleansed from …