nothos

Strong’sG3541

illegitimate, bastard

stem noth-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.

** νόθος, -η, -ον,

[in LXX: Wi 4:3*;]

a bastard, base born, i.e. born of a slave or concubine: He 12:8.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3541 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidnoth'-os

a spurious or illegitimate son

Fromof uncertain affinity;

King Jamesbastard.

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

νόθ-ος, η, ον,
also ος, ον Refs 3rd c.BC+, bastard, baseborn, i.e. born of a slave or concubine, frequently in Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to γνήσιος, Refs 8th c.BC+; ὅδ᾽, εἰ ν. τις, γνησίοις ἴσον σθένει NT+8th c.BC+
2 at Athens, child of a citizen father and an alien mother, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 plural, in Egypt, a class of temple-attendants, Wilcken Refs 3rd c.BC+
4 of animals, cross-bred, πρόβατα Refs 3rd c.BC+
II generally, spurious, counterfeit, supposititious, of persons and things, λογισμῷ τινι ν. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀοιδαί Call.[same place]; νόθον ἧπαρ ὁ σπλήν Refs 4th c.BC+; αἱ ν. πλευραί the false ribs, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ν. σάλπιγξ, of a serpent's hiss, Refs 4th c.AD+; ν. φέγγος, of the moon, opposed to γνήσιον, of the sun, Refs 1st c.AD+meretricious, Peripl.M. Refs. adverb -θως insincerely, disingenuously, LXX+5th c.AD+
II.2 of literary works, spurious, Refs 3rd 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.

illegitimate children1×

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	nothos	nothas	nothem	nothois1×νόθοι	nothais	notheim
object accusative	nothon	nothan		nothoin	nothain
direct address vocative	nothor	nothar		nothoir	nothair
of, belonging to genitive	nothou	nothau	notheu	nothoiu	nothaiu	notheiu
to, for dative	notho	notha	nothe	nothoi	nothai	nothei

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

nothstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

noth 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

nothois“illegitimate children”subjectnominative plural1×

Hebrews 12:8… paideiau hau metochois genalē pantois, ara nothois kai ouk huiois avō.… like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.