noun · feminine
nikas
Strong’sG3529
victory
stem nik-once in the New Testament1 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.
νίκη, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX: I Ch 29:11 (נֵצַח), freq. in I-IV Mac;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3529 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnee'-kay
conquest (abstractly), i.e. (figuratively) the means of success
Fromapparently a primary word;
King Jamesvictory.
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
victory, ν. φαίνεται Μενελάου victory clearly belongs to M., Refs 8th c.BC+: frequently of victory in the games, Ἰσθμία ν. Refs 5th c.BC+ victory over.., Refs 8th c.BC+
2 later, generally, mastery, ascendancy, etc., in all relations, νίκην διασῴζεσθαι to keep the fruits of victory, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 success in a lawsuit, Refs 8th c.BC+; in the concrete, damages, etc., recovered, Refs
II proper name, Nike, the goddess of victory, Refs 8th c.BC+
II.2 Astrology texts, name of sixth κλῆρος, Refs 4th c.AD+
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 nominative | nikas1×νίκη | nikais |
| object accusative | nikan | nikain |
| direct address vocative | nikar | nikair |
| of, belonging to genitive | nikau | nikaiu |
| to, for dative | nika | nikai |
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
nika 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
nikas“victory”subjectnominative singular1×
1 John 5:4… ton kosmon. kai houtas atō tas nikas tas nikarantas ton kosmon, tas pistias …… the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our …