adjective
polupoikilas
Strong’sG4182
much varied, manifold
stem polupoikil-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.
* πολυ-ποίκιλος, -ον,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4182 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
much-variegated, φάρεα Refs 5th c.BC+
2 manifold, σοφία τοῦ θεοῦ NT+5th 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | polupoikilos | polupoikilas1×πολυποίκιλος | polupoikilem | polupoikilois | polupoikilais | polupoikileim |
| object accusative | polupoikilon | polupoikilan | polupoikiloin | polupoikilain | ||
| direct address vocative | polupoikilor | polupoikilar | polupoikiloir | polupoikilair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | polupoikilou | polupoikilau | polupoikileu | polupoikiloiu | polupoikilaiu | polupoikileiu |
| to, for dative | polupoikilo | polupoikila | polupoikile | polupoikiloi | polupoikilai | polupoikilei |
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
polupoikil 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
polupoikilas“manifold”subjectnominative singular1×
Ephesians 3:10… tei epouranei dia tau ekklēsau tas polupoikilas sofias tou theou,… that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made …