noun · masculine
nikodēmos
Strong’sG3530
Nicodemus
stem nikodēm-5 times 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.
Νικόδημος, -ου, ὁ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3530 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Nicodemus:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
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 | nikodēmos5×Νικόδημος | nikodēmois |
| object accusative | nikodēmon | nikodēmoin |
| direct address vocative | nikodēmor | nikodēmoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | nikodēmou | nikodēmoiu |
| to, for dative | nikodēmo | nikodēmoi |
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
nikodēmo 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
nikodēmos“Nicodemus”subjectnominative singular5×
John 3:1Ate de anthrōpos ek toiu Farisaioiu, Nikodēmos onomem auto, archontos toiu Ioudaioiu;… a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.
John 3:4legatō pros auton tos Nikodēmos; Pōs dunotō anthrōpos gennira gerōnos arōntos? …… be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s …
John 3:9apokrinita Nikodēmos kai legata auto; Pōs dunotō houteim …“How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
John 7:50legatō Nikodēmos pros autoin, tos ercharantos pros auton …Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier …
John 19:39erchata de kai Nikodēmos, tos ercharantos pros auton nuktau tem …Nicodemus, who had previously come to Jesus …