noun · neuter
ploiariem
Greekπλοιάριον (ploiarion)
Strong’sG4142
a little boat
stem ploiari-5 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 of 6 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
* 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.
Every form
| 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
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 mē thlibaleiō auton;Jesus asked His disciples to have a boat ready for Him so that the crowd would not crush Him.
John 6:22“boat”Ta epaurion tos ochlos tos histanarētos peran tau thalassau horala hoti ploiariem allem ouk ate ekei ei mē henem, kai hoti ouk suneiserchata toi mathētoi autou tos Iēsus eis tem ploiem alla monois tois mathētois autou aperchala;The next day, the crowd that had remained on the other side of the sea realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded it with His disciples, but they had gone away alone.
ploiarie“boat”to, fordative singular1×
John 21:8“boat”tois de allois mathētois te ploiarie erchala, ouk gar ale makran apo tau gēau alla hōs apo pēchoiu diakosioi, surarōtois tem diktuem toiu ichthoiu.The other disciples came ashore in the boat. They dragged in the net full of fish, for they were not far from land, only about a hundred yards.
ploiarieim“boats”subject or objectdirect plural1×
John 6:23“boats”alla erchata ploiarieim ek Tiberiadau engus tou topou hopou esthiala ton arton eucharistaratou tou kuriou.However, some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
ploiarieim1×
John 6:24“boats”hote oun horata tos ochlos hoti Iēsus ouk atō ekei oude tois mathētois autou, embainala autois eis teim ploiarieim kai erchala eis Kafarnaoum zētarōtois ton Iēsun.So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum to look for Him.