adjective

oktaēmeros

Greekὀκταήμερος (oktaēmeros)

Strong’sG3637

belonging to the eighth day

stem oktaēmer-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

eighth1×

What it means

*† ὀκταήμερος, -ον

(< ὀκτώ, ἡμέρα),

of the eighth day, eight days old: c. dat. ref., περιτομῇ ὀ., Phl 3:5 (words of this class denote duration, cf. τεταρταῖος).†

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

Strong’s G3637 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidok-tah-ay'-mer-os

an eight-day old person or act

Fromfrom G3638 and G2250;

King Jamesthe eighth day.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	oktaēmeros1×ὀκταήμερος	oktaēmeras	oktaēmerem	oktaēmerois	oktaēmerais	oktaēmereim
object accusative	oktaēmeron	oktaēmeran		oktaēmeroin	oktaēmerain
direct address vocative	oktaēmeror	oktaēmerar		oktaēmeroir	oktaēmerair
of, belonging to genitive	oktaēmerou	oktaēmerau	oktaēmereu	oktaēmeroiu	oktaēmeraiu	oktaēmereiu
to, for dative	oktaēmero	oktaēmera	oktaēmere	oktaēmeroi	oktaēmerai	oktaēmerei

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

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

oktaēmer 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

oktaēmeros“eighth”subjectnominative singular1×

Philippians 3:5“eighth”peritoma oktaēmeros, ek geneu Israēl, fulau Beniamin, Hebraios ek Hebraioiu, kata nomon Farisaios,circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;