noun · masculine
loimos
Strong’sG3061
a pestilence
stem loim-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
λοιμός, -οῦ, ὁ,
[in LXX for לוּץ, עָרִיץ, בְּלִיַּעַל, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3061 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidloy'-mos
a plague (literally, the disease, or figuratively, a pest)
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamespestilence(-t).
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
plague, once in Refs 8th c.BC+; of the plague at Athens, Refs 5th c.BC+; coupled with λιμός, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 of persons, plague, pest, Refs 4th c.BC+
II as adjective, pestilent, LXX; ἀνὴρ λ. καὶ πονηρόςNT+2nd 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.
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 | loimos | loimois1×λοιμοὶ |
| object accusative | loimon1×λοιμὸν | loimoin |
| direct address vocative | loimor | loimoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | loimou | loimoiu |
| to, for dative | loimo | loimoi |
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
loimo 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
loimon“plague”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 24:5“plague”heuriskarantois gar ton andron houton loimon kai kinarōnton stasiain pantoi toi Ioudaioi …We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the …
loimois“plagues”subjectnominative plural1×
Luke 21:11“plagues”… megois kai kata topoin limois kai loimois eli, fobētreim tē kai sēmeim apo …There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.