adjective
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*;]
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
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
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.
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 | paradoxos | paradoxas | paradoxem | paradoxois | paradoxais | paradoxeim1×παράδοξα |
| object accusative | paradoxon | paradoxan | paradoxoin | paradoxain | ||
| direct address vocative | paradoxor | paradoxar | paradoxoir | paradoxair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | paradoxou | paradoxau | paradoxeu | paradoxoiu | paradoxaiu | paradoxeiu |
| to, for dative | paradoxo | paradoxa | paradoxe | paradoxoi | paradoxai | paradoxei |
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
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.”