noun · neuter
plasmem
Strong’sG4110
a thing formed or fashioned
stem plasm-once in the New Testament1 of 6 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.
πλάσμα, -τος, τό
(< πλάσσω), [in LXX chiefly for יֵצֶר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4110 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidplas'-mah
something moulded
Fromfrom G4111;
King Jamesthing formed.
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
anything formed or moulded, image, figure, πλάσματα πηλοῦ Refs 5th c.BC+; κήρινον.. οὐκ οἶδ᾽ ὅ τι π. as it were a piece of wax-work, Refs 5th c.BC+; of figures made by bakers, Refs 4th c.BC+: plural, cakes of incense, Refs 3rd c.AD+
b the body, as fashioned by the Creator, Refs
II counterfeit, forgery, π. ὅλον ἐστὶν ἡ διαθήκη Refs 4th c.BC+
II.b figment, fiction, πλάσματα τῶν προτέρων Refs 6th c.BC+; of a story which is fictitious but possible, opposed to ἱστορία Refs 1st c.AD+
II.c pretence, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.2 delusion, Refs 1st c.BC+
III formed style in writing or speaking, π. καὶ τὴν ἄλλην κατασκευὴν δημηγόρου Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡνίκ᾽ ἂν ᾖ ποιητικὸν τοῦ λόγου τὸ π. Refs 3rd c.AD+
III.2 in music, affected execution, with trills, falsetto, etc., μετὰ πλάσματος αὐλεῖν, opposed to ἀπλάστως, Refs 4th c.BC+; of studied intonation in orators or actors, π. φωνῆς ἀθόρυβον Refs 1st c.AD+; lectio plasmate effeminata, Refs 1st 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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | plasmem1×πλάσμα | plasmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | plasmeu | plasmeiu |
| to, for dative | plasme | plasmei |
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
plasme 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
plasmem“what is molded”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Romans 9:20“what is molded”… antapokrinorōntos to theo? mē legati tem plasmem to plassaranto Tinem min poiasa houtōs?… man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”