periousios

Strong’sG4041

costly, specially chosen

stem periousi-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.

† περιούσιος, -ον

(< περίειμι, to be over and above), [in LXX: Ex 19:5 23:22, De 7:6 14:2 26:18 (סְגֻלָּה, עַם ם׳)*;]

one's own, of one's own possession: λαὸς π. (cf. LXX, Ex 19:5 23:22, De 7:6 14:2 26:18), Tit 2:14.†

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

Strong’s G4041 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidper-ee-oo'-see-os

being beyond usual, i.e. special (one's own)

Fromfrom the present participle feminine of a compound of 4012 and G1510;

King Jamespeculiar.

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

περιούσι-ος, ον,
having more than enough, wealthy, Refs 4th c.AD+
II especial, peculiar, λαός LXX+NT

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.

possession1×

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	periousios	periousias	periousiem	periousiois	periousiais	periousieim
object accusative	periousion1×περιούσιον	periousian		periousioin	periousiain
direct address vocative	periousior	periousiar		periousioir	periousiair
of, belonging to genitive	periousiou	periousiau	periousieu	periousioiu	periousiaiu	periousieiu
to, for dative	periousio	periousia	periousie	periousioi	periousiai	periousiei

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

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

periousi 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

periousion“possession”objectaccusative singular1×

Titus 2:14… pantau anomiau kai katharizateia heauto laon periousion, zēlōton kaleiu ergeiu.… Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.