noun · neuter
ōtiem
Strong’sG5621
an ear
stem ōti-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 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.
† ὠτίον, -ου, τό, dimin. of οὖς,
[in LXX for אֹזֶן;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5621 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saido-tee'-on
an earlet, i.e. one of the ears, or perhaps the lobe of the ear
Fromdiminutive of G3775;
King Jamesear.
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
properly diminutive of οὖς, auricle, Refs 1st c.AD+, compare 62; but usually ={οὖς}, NT+1st c.AD+
II metaphorically, a little handle, προχύτου Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 ={ὠτάριον} 111, Refs 1st c.AD+; gloss on{τήθη}, ={λεπὰς ἀγρία}, Refs 2nd 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 or object direct | ōtiem | ōtieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | ōtieu1×ὠτίου | ōtieiu |
| to, for dative | ōtie | ōtiei |
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
ōtie 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
ōtieu“ear”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 22:51… Easavōr heōs houteu; kai hapterantos teu ōtieu ieta auton.… this!” And He touched the man’s ear and healed him.
ōtiem2×
Matthew 26:51… doulon tou archierevou afairata autou tem ōtiem.… the high priest, cutting off his ear.
John 18:26… sungenos arōntos hou apokoptata Petros tem ōtiem; Ouk mis sin horama en to …… a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Didn’t …