adjective
neofutos
Strong’sG3504
newly-planted, recent convert
stem neofut-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.
νεό-φυτος, -ον
(< νέος, φύω), [in LXX: Jb 14:9, Ps 143 (144):12, Is 5:7 (נֶטַע), Ps 127 (128):3 (שְׁתִיל)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3504 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
newly planted, Refs 5th c.BC+; κτῆμα Refs 3rd c.AD+ young plants, LXX+1st c.AD+; νεώ- Papyrus), etc.
II metaphorically, new convert, neophyte, 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | neofutos | neofutas | neofutem | neofutois | neofutais | neofuteim |
| object accusative | neofuton1×νεόφυτον | neofutan | neofutoin | neofutain | ||
| direct address vocative | neofutor | neofutar | neofutoir | neofutair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | neofutou | neofutau | neofuteu | neofutoiu | neofutaiu | neofuteiu |
| to, for dative | neofuto | neofuta | neofute | neofutoi | neofutai | neofutei |
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
neofut 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
neofuton“recent convert”objectaccusative singular1×
1 Timothy 3:6mē neofuton, hina mē tufirantos eis krimem empiptateia …He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and …