noun · masculine
lukos
Strong’sG3074
a wolf, jackal
stem luk-6 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books4 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.
λύκος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX for זְאֵב;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3074 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidloo'-kos
a wolf
Fromperhaps akin to the base of G3022 (from the whitish hair);
King Jameswolf.
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
wolf, Refs 8th c.BC+; πολιός grisly,Refs 8th c.BC+; ὀρέστεροιRefs 8th c.BC+; the small Egyptian wolves mentioned by Refs 5th c.BC+ were perhaps jackals: various kinds distinguished by Refs 3rd c.AD+ to see a wolf, i. e. to be struck dumb, as was vulgarly believed of any one at whom a wolf got the first look Refs 5th c.BC+; λύκου πτερά, of things that are not, 'pigeon's milk', Refs; ὡς λ. χανών, of vain expectation, Refs 5th c.BC+; πρίν κεν λ. οἶν ὑμεναιοῖ, of an impossibility, Refs 8th c.BC+; ὡς λύκοι ἄρν᾽ ἀγαπῶσιν, of treacherous or unnatural love, poetical cited in Refs 5th c.BC+; λύκου βίον ζῆν, i. e. live by rapine, Prov. cited in Refs 2nd c.BC+; ἐκ λύκου στόματος, of getting a thing praeter spem, Refs 2nd c.AD+; τῶν ὤτων ἔχειν τὸν λύκον 'catch a Tartar', Refs 4th c.BC+; λ. ἀετὸν φεύγει, of the inescapable, Refs 4th c.AD+
II a kind of daw, Refs 4th c.BC+; compare λύκιος.
III a fish, ={καλλιώνυμος}, Refs 1st c.BC+
IV a kind of spider, Refs 4th c.BC+
V anything shaped like a hook:
V.1 a jagged bit for hard-mouthed horses, Latin lupus, Refs 1st c.AD+; compare λυκοσπάς.
V.2 hook or knocker on a door, Refs 5th c.AD+
V.3 flesh-hook, Refs 2nd c.AD+
VI nickname of παιδερασταί, Refs 5th c.BC+
VII the flower of the iris, Philin. cited in Refs 2nd c.AD+
VIII a kind of noose, Refs 2nd c.AD+
IX a pastille used in dysentery, Refs 6th c.AD+
X ={ὀροβάγχη}, variant in marginal of Refs 1st c.AD+
XI an engine of war for defending gates, Refs 6th c.AD+. (Cf. Sanskrit vŕ[null]kas, Lithuanian vi[ltilde]kas, Slavonic vl[ucaron]k[ucaron], Gothic wulfs.)
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 | lukos1×λύκος | lukois2×λύκοι |
| object accusative | lukon1×λύκον | lukoin |
| direct address vocative | lukor | lukoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | lukou | lukoiu2×λύκων |
| to, for dative | luko | lukoi |
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
luko 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.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
lukos“wolf”subjectnominative singular1×
John 10:12… teim probateim kai fugatō kai tos lukos harpazatō auteim kai skorpizatō… sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the …
lukon“wolf”objectaccusative singular1×
John 10:12… atō teim probateim idieim, theōratō ton lukon erchorōnton kai afiēkatō teim probateim kai …… his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and …
lukois“wolves”subjectnominative plural2×
Matthew 7:15… en endumei probateiu esōthen de alō lukois harpagois.… clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
Acts 20:29… hoti eisercheli meta tan afixian mu lukois baruois eis vin mē feidorōntois teu …… know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and …
lukoiu“wolves”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Matthew 10:16… apostelamō vin hōs probateim en mese lukoiu; genovōr oun fronimois hōs tois ofiois …… sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes …
Luke 10:3… apostelamō vin hōs arnoin en mese lukoiu.… sending you out like lambs among wolves.