prēnos

Strong’sG4248

falling headlong

stem prēn-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.

** πρηνής, -ές

(in Att. also πρανής), [in LXX: Wi 4:19, III Mac 5:43, 50 6:23*;]

headlong, prone: Ac 1:18.†

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

Strong’s G4248 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpray-nace'

leaning (falling) forward ("prone"), i.e. head foremost

Fromfrom G4253;

King Jamesheadlong.

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

πρᾱν-ής, ές,
Ionic dialect πρηνής (also in Refs 4th c.BC+, genitive έος, Attic dialect contraction οῦς:—of posture, with the face downwards, lying on the front, falling forwards, opposed to ὕπτιος, πρηνεῖς τε καὶ ὕπτιοι ἔκπεσον ἵππων Refs 8th c.BC+; πρηνέα.. τανύσσας [ἝκτοραRefsheadlong down, NT (perhaps ={πρησθείς} becoming distended); ἐπὶ τὸ πρηνὲς ῥέπειν incline towards pronation, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the arm and hand, with the palm downwards, variant in Refs; opposed to ὕπτιος, Refs 4th c.BC+; of ἀστράγαλοι, ὀρθοὶ πίπτοντες ἢ πρηνεῖς Refs 2nd c.AD+; of seeds, hollow side downwards, Refs 4th c.BC+; of a ship, bottom upwards, implied in Refs 1st c.AD+
II of parts of animals or man, that part which is uppermost and visible when the animal or man is in the πρανής position (the normal one for a quadruped), the back part, τὰ τετράποδα.. ἐν τοῖς ὑπτίοις οὐκ ἔ χει τὰς τρίχας, ἀλλ᾽ ἐν τοῖς πρανέσι μᾶλλον· οἱ δ᾽ ἄνθρωποι τοὐναντίον ἐν τοῖς ὑπτίοις μᾶλλον ἢ ἐν τοῖς πρανέσιν Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 of leaves and of the hand, the back or 'wrong' side, τὰς ἶνας καὶ τὰς φλέβας ἐν τοῖς π. ἔχουσιν ὥσπερ ἡ χείρ Refs 4th c.BC+ (misunderstood as the opposite by Refs 1st c.AD+
III of the sides of hills, πρὸς ἄναντες καὶ κατὰ πρανοῦς καὶ πλάγια ἐλαύνειν down hill, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ π., opposed to τὸ ὄρθιον, Refs
III.2 convex, Refs 4th c.BC+

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.

falling headlong1×

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	prēnos1×πρηνὴς	prēnas	prēnem	prēnois	prēnais	prēneim
object accusative	prēnon	prēnan		prēnoin	prēnain
direct address vocative	prēnor	prēnar		prēnoir	prēnair
of, belonging to genitive	prēnou	prēnau	prēneu	prēnoiu	prēnaiu	prēneiu
to, for dative	prēno	prēna	prēne	prēnoi	prēnai	prēnei

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

prēnstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

prēn 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

prēnos“falling headlong”subjectnominative singular1×

Acts 1:18“falling headlong”… chōriem ek misthou tau adikiau, kai prēnos generantos lakata mesos, kai ekchita panteim …(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines …