adjective

mousikos

Greekμουσικός (mousikos)

Strong’sG3451

skilled in music, a musician

stem mousik-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

musicians1×

What it means

μουσικός, -ή, -όν,

[in LXX: Ge 31:27, Ez 26:13 (שִׁיר), Da LXX TH 3:5 ff. (זְמָר), Si 22:6, al.;]

skilled in the arts, esp. in music; as subst., ὁ μ., a minstrel, musician: Re 18:22.†

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

Strong’s G3451 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmoo-sik-os'

"musical", i.e. (as noun) a minstrel

Fromfrom Μοῦσα (a Muse);

King Jamesmusician.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	mousikos	mousikas	mousikem	mousikois	mousikais	mousikeim
object accusative	mousikon	mousikan		mousikoin	mousikain
direct address vocative	mousikor	mousikar		mousikoir	mousikair
of, belonging to genitive	mousikou	mousikau	mousikeu	mousikoiu1×μουσικῶν	mousikaiu	mousikeiu
to, for dative	mousiko	mousika	mousike	mousikoi	mousikai	mousikei

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

mousikstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

mousik 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

mousikoiu“musicians”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

Revelation 18:22“musicians”kai fōnas kitharōdoiu kai mousikoiu kai aulētoiu kai salpistoiu ouk mē akouiteia en si ēti, kai pantos technitos pantau technau ouk mē heuriskiteia en si ēti, kai fōnas mulou ouk mē akouiteia en si ēti,And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.