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adjective

Greekπαράδοξος (paradoxos)
Biblang

paradoxem

Strong’sG3861

unexpected, strange, wonderful

stem paradox-once in the New Testament1 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.

** παράδοξος, -ον

(< παρά, δόξα), [in LXX: Jth 13:13, Wi 5:2 16:17 19:5, Si 43:25; II-IV Mac3*;]

contrary to received opinion, incredible, marvellous: pl., Lk 5:26.†

SYN.: v.s. δύναμις.

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

Strong’s G3861 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpar-ad'-ox-os

contrary to expectation, i.e. extraordinary ("paradox")

Fromfrom G3844 and G1391 (in the sense of seeming);

King Jamesstrange.

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
παράδοξος, ον,
contrary to expectation, incredible, π. λόγος a paradox, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐκ τοῦ παραδόξου καὶ παραλόγου contrary to all expectation, Refs 4th c.BC+; παράδοξα Stoical paradoxes, Refs {παραδοξότης}: comparative, Refs 1st c.BC+: superlative, LXX. adverb -ξωςRefs 4th c.BC+: superlative -όταταRefs 2nd c.AD+; -οτάτως Refs 2nd c.AD+
II παράδοξος, title of distinguished athletes, musicians, and artists of all kinds, the Admirable, 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.

strange1×

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 casemasculine singularfeminine singularneuter singularmasculine pluralfeminine pluralneuter plural
subject nominativeparadoxosparadoxasparadoxemparadoxoisparadoxaisparadoxeim1×παράδοξα
object accusativeparadoxonparadoxanparadoxoinparadoxain
direct address vocativeparadoxorparadoxarparadoxoirparadoxair
of, belonging to genitiveparadoxouparadoxauparadoxeuparadoxoiuparadoxaiuparadoxeiu
to, for dativeparadoxoparadoxaparadoxeparadoxoiparadoxaiparadoxei

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
paradoxstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

paradox 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

paradoxeim“strange”subject or objectdirect plural1×

Luke 5:26“strange”… kai pimplēila fobou legarōntois hoti Horana paradoxeim sēmeron.… They were filled with awe and said, “We have seen remarkable things today.”