mousikos

Strong’sG3451

skilled in music, a musician

stem mousik-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.

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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

μουσῐκός, ή, όν,
Doric dialect μωσικός, ά, όν Refs 5th c.AD+:— musical, ἀγῶνες μ. καὶ γυμνικοί Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ μουσικά music, Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb - κῶς Refs 5th c.BC+; compare {μουσική}
II of persons, skilled in music, musical, X.[same place], etc.; ποιητικοὶ καὶ μ. ἄνδρες Refs 5th c.BC+; lyric poet, opposed to epic, Refs 5th c.BC+; μ., οἱ, professional musicians, Refs 1st c.BC+; μουσικὸς καὶ μελῶν ποητής Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.2 generally, votary of the Muses, man of letters and accomplishments, scholar, opposed to ἀμαθής, Refs 5th c.BC+; πόλις -ωτάτη most full of liberal arts, Refs 5th c.BC+infinitive, παρ᾽ ὄχλῳ -ώτεροι λέγειν more accomplished in speaking before a mob, Refs 5th c.BC+
III of things, elegant, delicate, βρώματα Refs 4th c.BC+; harmonious, fitting, τροφὴ μέση καὶ μ., τὸν Δώριον τρόπον τῆς τύχης ὡς ἀληθῶς ἡρμοσμένη Refs 5th c.AD+ adverb -κῶς harmoniously, suitably, οἱ λόγοι οὐ πάνυ μ. λέγονται Refs 5th c.BC+; μ. ἅλας δοῦναι, ὄψον σκευάσαι, Refs 3rd c.BC+: comparative -ωτέρως, λέγειν Refs 4th c.BC+: superlative -ώτατα 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.

musicians1×

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	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

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

mousikoiu“musicians”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

Revelation 18:22kai fōnas kitharōdoiu kai mousikoiu kai aulētoiu kai salpistoiu ouk mē …And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will …