interrogative or indefinite pronoun
pēlikos
Strong’sG4080
how large, how great
stem pēlik-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
πηλίκος, -η, -ον,
[in LXX: Za 2:2 (6) (כַּמָּה), IV Mac 15:22*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4080 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpay-lee'-kos
how much (as an indefinite), i.e. in size or (figuratively) dignity
Froma quantitative form (the feminine) of the base of G4225;
King Jameshow great (large).
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
interrogative correlative to τηλίκος, ἡλίκος, how great or large? πηλίκη τις ἔσται ἡ γραμμή; Refs 5th c.BC+; πηλίκον τινὰ οἴεσθε μέγεθο; Refs 4th c.BC+; after τηλικοῦτος, Refs 4th c.BC+; πόσα καὶ πηλίκα of what number and magnitude, Refs 2nd c.BC+; quantulus? Refs 2nd c.AD+; τὸ π. magnitude, opposed to τὸ ποσόν (quantity), Refs 2nd c.AD+. adverb -κως Refs
II of what age, π. ἦσθ᾽ ὅθ᾽ ὁ Μῆδος ἀφίκετ; Refs 6th c.BC+
II.2 indefinite, of a certain age, Refs 4th c.BC+: comparative -ώτερος, falsa lectio for{ἀπηλικέστερος}, 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 | pēlikos1×πηλίκος | pēlikas | pēlikem | pēlikois | pēlikais | pēlikeim |
| object accusative | pēlikon | pēlikan | pēlikoin | pēlikain | ||
| direct address vocative | pēlikor | pēlikar | pēlikoir | pēlikair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | pēlikou | pēlikau | pēlikeu | pēlikoiu | pēlikaiu | pēlikeiu |
| to, for dative | pēliko | pēlika | pēlike | pēlikoi | pēlikai | pēlikei1×πηλίκοις |
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
pēlik 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
pēlikos“how great”subjectnominative singular1×
Hebrews 7:4Theōravōr de pēlikos houtos ho dekatan Abraam dōata ek …Consider how great Melchizedek was: Even the patriarch Abraham …
pēlikei“what large”to, fordative plural1×
Galatians 6:11Horavar pēlikei vi grammei grafama ta ēma cheira.See what large letters I am using to write …