adjective
oxuos
Strong’sG3691
sharp, swift, eager
stem oxu-8 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books4 of 26 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.
ὀξύς, -εῖα, -ύ,
[in LXX: Ps 56 (57):4, al. (חַד), Am 2:15 (קַל), Is 5:28 (שׁנן), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3691 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidoz-oos'
keen; by analogy, rapid
Fromprobably akin to the base of G188 ("acid");
King Jamessharp, swift.
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
wood sorrel, Oxalis Acetosella, Refs 1st c.AD+
2 ={ὀξύσχοινος}, great sea-rush, Juncus acutus, Refs
3 ={ὀξαλίς}, sorrel, Rumex acetosa, Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | oxuos | oxuas2×ὀξεῖα | oxuem4×ὀξύ | oxuois1×ὀξεῖς | oxuais | oxueim |
| object accusative | oxuon | oxuan1×ὀξεῖαν | oxuoin | oxuain | ||
| direct address vocative | oxuor | oxuar | oxuoir | oxuair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | oxuou | oxuau | oxueu | oxuoiu | oxuaiu | oxueiu |
| to, for dative | oxuo | oxua | oxue | oxuoi | oxuai | oxuei |
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
oxu 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.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
oxuas“sharp”subjectnominative singular2×
Revelation 1:16… ek teu stomeu autou romfaias distomas oxuas ekporeuorōntas, kai tas opsias autou hōs …… right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword came from His mouth …
Revelation 19:15… ek teu stomeu autou ekporeuotō romfaias oxuas, hina en auta pataxateia teim ethneim, …And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down …
oxuan“sharp”objectaccusative singular1×
Revelation 2:12… echarōntos tan romfaian tan distoman tan oxuan;… of the One who holds the sharp, double-edged sword.
oxuem“sharp”subject or objectdirect singular4×
Revelation 14:14… kai en ta cheira autou drepanem oxuem.… crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.
Revelation 14:17… to ourano, echarōntos kai autos drepanem oxuem.… heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
Revelation 14:18… mega to echarōnto tem drepanem tem oxuem legarōntos; Pempasar su tem drepanem tem …… voice to the angel with the sharp sickle, “Swing your sharp sickle and …
Revelation 14:18… legarōntos; Pempasar su tem drepanem tem oxuem kai trugasar toin botruoin tau ampelau …… with the sharp sickle, “Swing your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of …
oxuois“swift”subjectnominative plural1×
Romans 3:15oxuois tois podois autoiu ekchara haimem,“Their feet are swift to shed blood;