noun · neuter
nikem
Strong’sG3534
victory
stem nik-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 6 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.
† νῖκος, -ους, τό, late form of νίκη,
[in LXX: La 3:18 (נֶצַח), I Es 3:9, II Mac 10:38, IV Mac 17:12; εἰς ν. (instead of εἰς τέλος, Jb 14:20), II Ki 2:26, Jb 36:7, Am 1:11 8:7, Je 3:5, La 5:20 (לָנֶצֵח, as נ׳ in Syr., = victory)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3534 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnee'-kos
a conquest (concretely), i.e. (by implication) triumph
Fromfrom G3529;
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
later form for νίκη, LXX+1st c.BC+; written νεῖκος), NT+8th c.BC+; εἰς νῖκος for ever, LXX
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 or object direct | nikem1×νῖκος | nikeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | nikeu | nikeiu |
| to, for dative | nike | nikei |
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
nike 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
nikem“victory”subject or objectdirect singular1×
1 Corinthians 15:55pou su, thanator, tem nikem? pou su, thanator, tem kentrem?“Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”
nikem3×
Matthew 12:20… ouk sbennuati, heōs an ekbalateia eis nikem tan krisian.… extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.
1 Corinthians 15:54… tos graforēntos; Katapinita tos thanatos eis nikem.… Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
1 Corinthians 15:57… theo charitas to dōarōnto ni tem nikem dia tou kuriou nu Iēsu Christou.… to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!