porismos

Strong’sG4200

a source of gain

stem porism-2 times in the New Testament2 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.

**† πορισμός, -ου, ὁ

(< πορίζω, to procure), [in LXX: Wi 13:19 14:2*;]

1. a providing.

2. a means of gain: I Ti 6:5, 6 (Polyb., al.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4200 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpor-is-mos'

furnishing (procuring), i.e. (by implication) money-getting (acquisition)

Fromfrom a derivative of πόρος (a way, i.e. means);

King Jamesgain.

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

πορ-ισμός, ὁ,
providing, procuring, τῶν ἐπιτηδείων Refs 2nd c.BC+; earning a living, Refs 3rd c.BC+; money-getting, Refs 1st c.AD+; means of gain, NT+4th c.BC+; means of livelihood, 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.

gain1×means of gain1×

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	porismos1×πορισμὸς	porismois
object accusative	porismon1×πορισμὸν	porismoin
direct address vocative	porismor	porismoir
of, belonging to genitive	porismou	porismoiu
to, for dative	porismo	porismoi

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

porismstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

porismo 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

porismos“gain”subjectnominative singular1×

1 Timothy 6:6atō de porismos megos tas eusebeias meta autarkeiau;… course, godliness with contentment is great gain.

porismon“means of gain”objectaccusative singular1×

1 Timothy 6:5… nouon kai aposterorēntoiu tau alētheiau, nomizarōntoiu porismon arō tan eusebeian.… These men regard godliness as a means of gain.