noun · neuter
plegmem
Strong’sG4117
braided hair, anything interwoven
stem plegm-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.
** πλέγμα, -τος, τό
(< πλέκω), [in Aq., Th.: Is 28:5*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4117 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpleg'-mah
a plait (of hair)
Fromfrom G4120;
King Jamesbroidered hair.
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 twined or twisted, π. ἕλικος the twisting tendril of the vine, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 plaited work, wicker-work, Refs 5th c.BC+: in plural, wreaths, chaplets, Refs 5th c.BC+; also, plaited hair, NT
3 π. δικτυοειδές the rete mirabile Galeni, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II metaphorically, complex, combination of words, Refs 5th c.BC+: generally, complex, 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 | plegmem | plegmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | plegmeu | plegmeiu |
| to, for dative | plegme | plegmei1×πλέγμασιν |
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
plegme 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
plegmei“braided hair”to, fordative plural1×
1 Timothy 2:9… kai sōfrosunau kosmarō heautain, mē en plegmei kai chrusie ē margaritoi ē himatismo …… modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive …