noun · neuter
misthōmem
Strong’sG3410
a rented house
stem misthōm-once in the New Testament1 of 6 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.
μίσθωμα, -τος, τό
(< μισθόω), [in LXX: De 23:18 (19), Mi 1:7, Ez 16:31, 34, 41 (אֶתְנַן), Ez 16:33, (נֵדֶה, נָדָן), Ez 16:32, Pr 19:13*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3410 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmis'-tho-mah
a rented building
Fromfrom G3409;
King Jameshired house.
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
price agreed on in hiring, contract-price, Refs 5th c.BC+; a courtesan's price, Machoap.Refs 3rd c.BC+
2 contract, μισθοῦσι μισθώματα farm out contracts, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἀπὸ μισθωμάτων θύειν by contract, Refs 5th c.BC+ (but explained as from the proceeds of rents by Refs 1st c.BC+
3 rent, Refs 4th c.BC+
II that which is let for hire, hired house, NT
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 or object direct | misthōmem | misthōmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | misthōmeu | misthōmeiu |
| to, for dative | misthōme1×μισθώματι | misthōmei |
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
misthōme 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
misthōme“rented house”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 28:30Emmenata de dietian holan en idie misthōme, kai apodechote pantoin toin eisporeuorōntoin pros …… two full years in his own rented house, welcoming all who came to visit …