noun · feminine
opōras
Strong’sG3703
autumn, autumnal fruits
stem opōr-once in the New Testament1 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.
ὀπώρα, -ας, ἡ,
[in LXX: Je 31 (48):32 47 (40):10, 12 (קַיִץ)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3703 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect ὀπώρ-η, ἡ: sometimes ὁπώρα, compare χεῖμα χὠπώραν, i.e. καὶ ὁπ-, Refs 7th c.BC+; proper nouns Ὁπωρίς Refs; compare μεθόπωρον, μεθοπωρινός:—the part of the year between the rising of Sirius and of Arcturus (i.e. the last days of July, all Aug., and part of Sept.), the latter part of summer; Refs 8th c.BC+ together, θέρος τεθαλυῖά τ᾽ ὀπώρη Refs 8th c.BC+; Σείριος being the star of ὀπώρη, Refs 8th c.BC+; compare ὀπωρινός.—In later times it became the name of a definite season, autumn (see. ὥρα Refs, but was still used sometimes to denote summer (autumn being distinguished as φθινόπωρον or μετόπωρον), ἀρξάμενος ἀπὸ τοῦ ἠρινοῦ χρόνου πρὸ ὀπώρας Refs 5th c.BC+
II fruit, γλαυκῆς ὀπώρας.. ποτοῦ χυθέντος.. Βακχίας ἀπ᾽ ἀμπέλου Refs 5th c.BC+: in this sense also in plural, Refs 7th c.BC+ even calls honey κηρίνα ὀπώρ; ἐαρινὴ ὀπώρα Refs 4th c.AD+
III metaphorically, life's summer, the time of youthful ripeness, Refs 5th c.BC+; τέρειναν ματέρ᾽ οἰνάνθας ὀπώραν (see. οἰνάνθη) Refs; ripe virginity, Refs 4th 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 | opōras1×ὀπώρα | opōrais |
| object accusative | opōran | opōrain |
| direct address vocative | opōrar | opōrair |
| of, belonging to genitive | opōrau | opōraiu |
| to, for dative | opōra | opōrai |
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
opōra 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
opōras“fruit”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 18:14kai tas opōras su tau epithumiau tau psuchau aperchata …And they will say: “The fruit of your soul’s desire has departed …