moschos

Strong’sG3448

a calf

stem mosch-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 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.

μόσχος, -ου, ὁ,

[in LXX chiefly for פָּר, also for שׁוֹר, עֵגֶל. etc.;]

1. a young shoot or twig.

2. ὁ, ἡ, μ., offspring;

(a) of men;

(b) of animals; most freq. (as always in LXX), a calf, bullock, heifer: Lk 15:23, 27, 30, He 9:12, 19, Re 4:7.†

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

Strong’s G3448 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmos'-khos

a young bullock

Fromprobably strengthened for όσχος (a shoot);

King Jamescalf.

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

μόσχος, ὁ, ἡ,

B calf, young bull, which form the god Apis was believed to assume, Refs 5th c.BC+: as feminine, heifer, young cow, μόσχους ἀμέλγειν Refs 5th c.BC+; πεζαὶ μ., ={ἑταῖραι}, Refs 5th c.BC+; ᾄδειν ἐπὶ μόσχῳ for the prize of a calf (nisi to be read ἐπὶ Μόσχῳ), Refs 5th c.BC+
B.2 metaphorically, boy, Refs 5th c.BC+: as feminine, girl, maid, Refs
B.3 any young animal, Refs; even of birds, μ. χελιδόνος Refs 5th c.BC+
B.4 μ. θαλάσσιος seal, Refs

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.

calf3×calves2×ox1×

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	moschos	moschois
object accusative	moschon3×μόσχον	moschoin
direct address vocative	moschor	moschoir
of, belonging to genitive	moschou	moschoiu2×μόσχων
to, for dative	moscho1×μόσχῳ	moschoi

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

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

moscho 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

moschon“calf”objectaccusative singular3×

Luke 15:23kai feravōr ton moschon ton siteuton, thuavar, kai esthiarantois eufranineia,Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast …

Luke 15:27… kai thuata tos patros su ton moschon ton siteuton, hoti hugiainarōnton auton apolabata.… your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has him back safe …

Luke 15:30… pornaiu erchata, thuasa auto ton siteuton moschon.… with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

moscho“ox”to, fordative singular1×

Revelation 4:7“ox”… leonto, kai tem deuterem zōem homoiem moscho, kai tem tritem zōem echarōntos tem …… like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was …

moschoiu“calves”of, belonging togenitive plural2×

Hebrews 9:12oude dia haimeu tragoiu kai moschoiu dia de teu idieu haimeu, eiserchata …… by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy …

Hebrews 9:19… to lao, labarantos tem haimem toiu moschoiu meta hudeu kai erieu kokkineu kai …… people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet …