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adjective

plastos

Greekπλαστός (plastos)

Strong’sG4112

formed, molded, feigned

stem plast-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

false

What it means

* πλαστός, -ή, -όν

(< πλάσσω),

1. formed, moulded (Hes., Plat., al.).
2. Metaph., made up, fabricated, feigned (Hdt., Xen., al.): II Pe 2:3.†

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

Strong’s G4112 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidplas-tos'

moulded, i.e. (by implication) artificial or (figuratively) fictitious (false)

Fromfrom G4111;

King Jamesfeigned.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence casemasculine singularfeminine singularneuter singularmasculine pluralfeminine pluralneuter plural
subject nominativeplastosplastasplastemplastoisplastaisplasteim
object accusativeplastonplastanplastoinplastain
direct address vocativeplastorplastarplastoirplastair
of, belonging to genitiveplastouplastauplasteuplastoiuplastaiuplasteiu
to, for dativeplastoplastaplasteplastoiπλαστοῖςplastaiplastei

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
plaststem+oaegender+smnruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

plast 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

plastoi“false”to, fordative plural

2 Peter 2:3“false”kai en pleonexia plastoi logoi vin emporeueli; hoi tem krimem ekpalai ouk argatō, kai tas apōleias autoiu ouk nustazatō.In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.