noun · feminine
pedas
Strong’sG3976
a shackle
stem ped-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 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.
πέδη, -ης, ἡ
(< πέζα, the instep), [in LXX for נְחֹשֶׁת, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3976 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidped'-ay
a shackle for the feet
Fromultimately from G4228;
King Jamesfetter.
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
(πέζα) fetter: in plural, shackles, ἀμφὶ δὲ ποσσὶ πέδας ἔβαλε χρυσείας, of horses, Refs 8th c.BC+; of men, τοῖς ἀδίκοις ἀμφιτίθησι πέδας Refs 6th c.BC+; πεδέων ζεῦγος pair of fetters, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν πέδαις (variant{ἐς πέδας}) δῆσαί τινα put one in fetters, Refs 5th c.BC+, of the robe in which Agamemnon was entangled, Refs 4th c.BC+: in singular, of the poisoned robe of Nessus, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. Ἑλληνικαί, of the fortresses of Chalcis, Corinth, and Demetrias, Refs 2nd c.BC+
2 anklet, bangle, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 of fishing-nets, Refs 5th c.BC+
II mode of breaking in a horse by riding him in a figure-of-eight course (compare ἱπποπέδη), Refs 5th 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 nominative | pedas | pedais |
| object accusative | pedan | pedain1×πέδας |
| direct address vocative | pedar | pedair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pedau | pedaiu |
| to, for dative | peda | pedai2×πέδαις |
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
peda 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
pedain“shackles”objectaccusative plural1×
Mark 5:4… hupo autou tain halusiain kai tain pedain suntriborē, kai oudenos ischuate auton damazara;… broken the chains and shattered the shackles. Now there was no one with …
pedai“shackles”to, fordative plural2×
Mark 5:4dia tem auton pollakis pedai kai halusiai dorē kai diasporē hupo …… was often bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and …
Luke 8:29… sunarpazatelē auton, kai desmeuote halusiai kai pedai fulassorōntos, kai diarrēgarōntos teim desmeim elaunote …… he was bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and …