noun · neuter
ploiariem
Strong’sG4142
a little boat
stem ploiari-5 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 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.
* πλοιάριον, -ου, τό
(dimin. of πλοῖον),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4142 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidploy-ar'-ee-on
a boat
Fromneuter of a presumed derivative of G4143;
King Jamesboat, little (small) ship.
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
diminutive of πλοῖον, skiff, boat, NT+5th c.BC+
II a kind of woman's shoe, Refs 2nd 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 | ploiariem2×πλοιάριον | ploiarieim1×πλοιάρια |
| of, belonging to genitive | ploiarieu | ploiarieiu |
| to, for dative | ploiarie1×πλοιαρίῳ | ploiariei |
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
ploiarie 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
ploiariem“boat”subject or objectdirect singular2×
Mark 3:9“small boat”kai legata toi mathētoi autou hina ploiariem proskarterateiō auto dia ton ochlon hina …Jesus asked His disciples to have a boat ready for Him so that the crowd would not …
John 6:22… stēarēntos peran tau thalassau horala hoti ploiariem allosem ouk ate ekei ei mē …… the sea realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus …
ploiarie“boat”to, fordative singular1×
John 21:8tois de allosois mathētois te ploiarie erchala, ouk gar ale makran apo …… other disciples came ashore in the boat. They dragged in the net full …
ploiarieim“boats”subject or objectdirect plural1×
John 6:23alla erchata ploiarieim ek Tiberiadau engus tou topou hopou …However, some boats from Tiberias landed near the place …
ploiarieim1×
John 6:24… mathētois autou, embainala autois eis teim ploiarieim kai erchala eis Kafarnaoum zētarōntois ton …… were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum to look …