ōem

Strong’sG5609

an egg

stem ō-once in the New Testament0 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.

ᾠόν

(Rec. ὠόν), -οῦ, τό [in LXX for בֵּיצָה;]

an egg: Lk 11:12.†

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

Strong’s G5609 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saido-on'

an "egg"

Fromapparently a primary word;

King Jamesegg.

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

ᾠόν, τό,
old poetry forms ὤεον, ὤιον, see entry near the end:— egg, τίκτει ᾠὰ ἐν γῇ καὶ ἐκλέπει [ὁ κροκόδειλος] Refs 5th c.BC+; of all birds, Refs 4th c.BC+; but mostly of hens' eggs, Refs 5th c.BC+; [ᾠοῦ] τὸ λευκόν, τὸ ὠχρόν, Refs 4th c.BC+; τὸ πυρρόν, τὸ χρυσοῦν, Refs 5th c.BC+; ᾠὰ ἡμιπαγέα half-boiled eggs, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἑφθά, ὠμά, Refs 4th c.BC+; ᾠὰ γόνιμα fertile eggs, opposed to ὑπηνέμια, ἄγονα, Refs 4th c.BC+; ᾠὸν τέλειον, opposed to ἀτελές, Refs; ᾠὸν ἀνεμιαῖον, ζεφύριον, wind-egg, Refs 5th c.BC+; σμύρνης ᾠ. lump, Refs 6th c.BC+ he has become bald as an egg, Refs
2 of the eggs or spawn of fish, Refs 5th c.BC+; of serpents, Refs; of tortoises, Refs
3 of plants, seed, Refs
4 cupping-glass, τὰ ἰατρικὰ ᾠὰ ὑέλινα ὄντακαὶ σύστομα Refs 2nd c.BC+Prooem.: egg-shaped cup, Refs 4th c.BC+. The word has the following forms: Attic dialect ᾠόν (- ?~X), confirmed by Inscrr. ὠιῶν Refs 3rd c.BC+, Papyri (ὠιὰ χήνεα Refs 3rd c.BC+, and later Mss.; Aeolic dialect ὤιον, genitive ὠίω (¯ ?~X ?~X ¯), Refs 7th c.BC+; ὤεον lbyc.16, Refs 7th c.BC+; ὤβεον is Argive accusative to Refs 5th c.AD+; ᾠόν oxytone accusative to Refs 9th c.AD+ which Latin ovum would lead us to expect, is found only in late texts LXX+NT and is due to loss of the ι in Refs 2nd c.BC+; cognate with Latin ovum, OHGei, ONorse egg (prim. Germanic aiia -), whence Engl. examples

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.

egg1×

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	ōem	ōeim
of, belonging to genitive	ōeu	ōeiu
to, for dative	ōe	ōei

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

ōstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

ōe 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.

ō — ὦ, O, an exclamation ō — Ὦ, omega

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

ōem1×

Luke 11:12ē kai aitati ōem, epidōati auto skorpion?Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?