noun · masculine
marmaros
Strong’sG3139
marble
stem marmar-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.
** μάρμαρος, -ου, ὁ
(< μαρμαίρω, to glisten), [in LXX: Ep. Je 72*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3139 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmar'-mar-os
marble (as sparkling white)
Fromfrom μαρμαίρω (to glisten);
King Jamesmarble.
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
a crystalline rock, which sparkles (μαρμαίρει) in the light, μάρμαρος ὀκριόεις Refs 8th c.BC+: as adjective, πέτρος μ. ὀκριόεις Refs 8th c.BC+
II later, marble, μάρμαρον ἢ λίθον λευκήν Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 work in marble, i.e. tombstone, τυκτὴ μ. Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.3 chips made by cutting marble (masculine), Refs 1st 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 | marmaros | marmarois |
| object accusative | marmaron | marmaroin |
| direct address vocative | marmaror | marmaroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | marmarou1×μαρμάρου | marmaroiu |
| to, for dative | marmaro | marmaroi |
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
marmaro 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
marmarou“marble”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Revelation 18:12… timiotateu kai chalkou kai sidērou kai marmarou,… ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;