noun · masculine
plēktos
Strong’sG4131
a contentious person
stem plēkt-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 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.
** πλήκτης, -ου, ὁ
(< πλήσσω), [in Sm.: Ps 34 (35):15*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4131 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidplake'-tace
a smiter, i.e. pugnacious (quarrelsome)
Fromfrom G4141;
King Jamesstriker.
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
striker, brawler, NT+5th c.BC+; violent, fierce, ἄνδρες π. καὶ μάχιμοι Refs 1st c.AD+; of wine, π. καὶ ὀξύς Refs; of the sun, Refs
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 nominative | plēktos | plēktois |
| object accusative | plēkton2×πλήκτην | plēktoin |
| direct address vocative | plēktor | plēktoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | plēktou | plēktoiu |
| to, for dative | plēkto | plēktoi |
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
plēkto 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
plēkton“violent”objectaccusative singular2×
1 Timothy 3:3mē paroinon, mē plēkton, alla epieikon, amachon, afilarguron,not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of …
Titus 1:7… authadon, mē orgilon, mē paroinon, mē plēkton, mē aischrokerdon,… quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.