noun · neuter
ostem
Strong’sG3747
a bone
stem ost-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 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.
ὀστέον (Att. contr. ὀστοῦν, -οῦ, and so Jo 19:36), -ου, τό,
[in LXX chiefly for עֶצֶם;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3747 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidos-teh'-on
a bone
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamesbone.
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
Attic dialect contraction ὀστοῦν, poetry ὀστεῦν Refs 1st c.AD+; Aeolic dialect perhaps ὄστιον Refs 7th c.BC+ (d)fragment 5: plural ὀστέα, Attic dialect contraction ὀστᾶ, late Epic dialect ὀστά [ᾰ] Refs 3rd c.AD+; Doric dialect ὀστία Refs 3rd c.BC+; but Trag. and Comedy texts use genitive plural ὀστέων, Refs 5th c.BC+, and it is so written in Refs 5th c.BC+: and the un contraction forms generally occur in later Prose, as in Refs 4th c.BC+; dative plural ὀστέοις Refs 2nd c.AD+; Epic dialect genitive plural ὀστεόφιν (see. below):—bone, frequently in Refs 8th c.BC+ only in plural, Refs; λεύκ᾽ ὀστέα the bleached bones of the dead, Refs 8th c.BC+; πολὺς δ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ ὀστεόφιν θίς a huge heap of bones around,Refs 5th c.BC+; ὀστέων στέγαστρον, of the skin, Refs 4th c.BC+; especially of the cranium, Refs 8th c.BC+
II metaphorically, γῆς ὀστέοισιν ἐγχριμφθεὶς πόδα, i.e. rocks, Refs 5th c.BC+
III stone of fruit, ὀστῶν περσεΐνων Refs 8th c.BC+.] (Cf. Sanskrit ´sthi, genitive asthn´s 'bone', etc.)
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 or object direct | ostem1×Ὀστοῦν | osteim |
| of, belonging to genitive | osteu | osteiu2×ὀστέων |
| to, for dative | oste | ostei |
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
oste 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
ostem“bones”subject or objectdirect singular1×
John 19:36… gar houteim hina tas grafas plēriteia; Ostem ouk suntribiti autou.… be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”
osteiu“bones”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Matthew 23:27… men fanolō hōraiois esōthen de gemalō osteiu nekroiu kai pantau akatharsiau;… inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
Hebrews 11:22… huioiu Israēl mnēmoneuata, kai peri teiu osteiu autou enteleta.… Israelites and gave instructions about his bones.
osteim1×
Luke 24:39… kai horavar, hoti pneumem sarkan kai osteim ouk echatō kathōs min theōravō echarōnton.… spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”