noun · masculine
makarismos
Strong’sG3108
regarding as happy, blessed, or enviable
stem makarism-3 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.
* μακαρισμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(μακαρίζω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3108 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmak-ar-is-mos'
beatification, i.e. attribution of good fortune
Fromfrom G3106;
King Jamesblessedness.
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
one must deem happy, Refs 2nd 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.
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 | makarismos2×μακαρισμὸς | makarismois |
| object accusative | makarismon1×μακαρισμὸν | makarismoin |
| direct address vocative | makarismor | makarismoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | makarismou | makarismoiu |
| to, for dative | makarismo | makarismoi |
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
makarismo 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
makarismos“blessing”subjectnominative singular2×
Romans 4:9Tos makarismos oun houtos epi tan peritoman ē …Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also …
Galatians 4:15pou oun tos makarismos vu? marturamō gar vi hoti ei …What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if …
makarismon“blessing”objectaccusative singular1×
Romans 4:6“blessing”kathaper kai David legatō ton makarismon tou anthrōpou ho tos theos logizotō …And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart …