noun · masculine
onēsimos
Strong’sG3682
Onesimus
stem onēsim-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
Ὀνήσιμος, -ου, ὁ
(i.e. profitable, < ὄνησις, profit),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3682 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidon-ay'-sim-os
profitable; Onesimus, a Christian
Fromfrom G3685;
King JamesOnesimus.
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
useful, profitable, beneficial, Refs 5th c.BC+; aiding, succouring, ἔγχος Refs. adverb -μωςRefs 5th c.BC+
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 | onēsimos | onēsimois |
| object accusative | onēsimon1×Ὀνήσιμον | onēsimoin |
| direct address vocative | onēsimor | onēsimoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | onēsimou | onēsimoiu |
| to, for dative | onēsimo1×Ὀνησίμῳ | onēsimoi |
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
onēsimo 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
onēsimon“Onesimus”objectaccusative singular1×
Philemon 1:10… tekneu, hon gennama en toi desmoi Onēsimon,… appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became while I …
onēsimo“Onesimus”to, fordative singular1×
Colossians 4:9sun Onēsimo to pisto kai agapēto adelfo, hos …With him I am sending Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who …