mammas

Strong’sG3125

a grandmother

stem mamm-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.

** μάμμη, -ης, ἡ

(onomatop.), [in LXX: IV Mac 16:9*;]

1. in cl., a child's name for mother.

2. In late Gk. (= cl., τήθη), a grandmother: (LXX, IV Mac 16:9), II Ti 1:5.†

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

Strong’s G3125 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmam'-may

a grandmother

Fromof natural origin ("mammy");

King Jamesgrandmother.

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

μάμμ-η, ἡ,
child's word for mother, ὦ μάμμη Refs 5th c.BC+
II mother's breast, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III later, grandmother, LXX+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.

grandmother1×

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	mammas	mammais
object accusative	mamman	mammain
direct address vocative	mammar	mammair
of, belonging to genitive	mammau	mammaiu
to, for dative	mamma1×μάμμῃ	mammai

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

mammstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

mamma 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

mamma“grandmother”to, fordative singular1×

2 Timothy 1:5… pistiau, hotinas enoikata prōtem en ta mamma su Lōida kai ta mētēra su …… faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and …