adjective
pemptos
Strong’sG3991
the fifth
stem pempt-4 times in the New Testament2 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.
πέμπτος, -η, -ον,
[in LXX for חֲמִישִׁי and cognate forms;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3991 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpemp'-tos
fifth
Fromfrom G4002;
King Jamesfifth.
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
(πέντε) fifth: with four others, πέμπτος μετὰ τοῖσιν Refs 8th c.BC+; π. σπιθαμή, i.e. four cubits and a span, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐς π. μῆνα by the fifth month, Refs; τὸ πέμπτον μέρος a fifth, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ π., as adverb, for the fifth time, ὕπατοι, ὑπατεύων, Refs 1st c.BC+
II ἡ πέμπτη (i.e. ἡμέρα) the fifth day, Refs 8th c.BC+
II.b ἡ π. (i.e. ὥρα) the fifth hour, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 ἡ π. (i.e. ὁδός), in the Roman camp, = via quintana, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.3 ἡ π. tax of one-fifth, Refs 3rd c.AD+
III τὸ π. σῶμα the fifth or celestial element, 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | pemptos3×πέμπτος | pemptas | pemptem | pemptois | pemptais | pempteim |
| object accusative | pempton | pemptan1×πέμπτην | pemptoin | pemptain | ||
| direct address vocative | pemptor | pemptar | pemptoir | pemptair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | pemptou | pemptau | pempteu | pemptoiu | pemptaiu | pempteiu |
| to, for dative | pempto | pempta | pempte | pemptoi | pemptai | pemptei |
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
pempt 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
pemptos“fifth”subjectnominative singular3×
Revelation 9:1Kai tos pemptos angelos salpizata; kai horama asteron ek …Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I …
Revelation 16:10Kai tos pemptos ekchata tan fialan autou epi ton …And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on …
Revelation 21:20tos pemptos sardonuxos, tos hektos sardiem, tos hebdomos …the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh …
pemptan“fifth”objectaccusative singular1×
Revelation 6:9Kai hote anoigata tan pemptan sfragidan, horama hupokatō teu thusiastērieu tain …And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar …