mimētos

Strong’sG3402

an imitator

stem mimēt-6 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books1 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.

* μιμητής, -οῦ, ὁ

(< μιμέομαι),

in NT always (like the verb) in good sense, an imitator: I Co 4:16 11:1, Eph 5:1, I Th 1:6 2:14, He 6:12.†

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

Strong’s G3402 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmim-ay-tace'

an imitator

Fromfrom G3401;

King Jamesfollower.

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

μῑμ-ητής, οῦ, ὁ,
imitator, τινωνNT+5th c.BC+; οἱ μ. τῶν γραμμάτων forgers, Refs 4th c.AD+
II artist Refs 5th c.BC+; especially one who impersonates characters, as an actor or poet, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 coupled with γόης, mere actor, impostor, Refs 5th 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.

imitators6×

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	mimētos	mimētois6×μιμηταὶ
object accusative	mimēton	mimētoin
direct address vocative	mimētor	mimētoir
of, belonging to genitive	mimētou	mimētoiu
to, for dative	mimēto	mimētoi

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

mimētstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

mimēto 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

mimētois“imitators”subjectnominative plural6×

1 Corinthians 4:16“imitators”parakalamō oun vin, mimētois mu genovōr.Therefore I urge you to imitate me.

1 Corinthians 11:1“imitators”mimētois mu genovōr, kathōs kamis Christou.… to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

Ephesians 5:1genovōr oun mimētois tou theou, hōs tekneim agapēteim,Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

1 Thessalonians 1:6kai vis mimētois nu geniva kai tou kuriou, decherantois …And you became imitators of us and of the Lord …

1 Thessalonians 2:14vis gar mimētois geniva, adelfoir, taiu ekklēsaiu tou theou …For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in …

Hebrews 6:12“imitators”hina mē nōthrois geneveia, mimētois de toiu dia pistiau kai makrothumiau …… you will not be sluggish, but will imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what …