noun · feminine
prosōpolēmpsias
Strong’sG4382
partiality, favoritism
stem prosōpolēmpsi-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 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.
*† προσωπολημψία (Rec. -ληψία), -ας, ἡ
(< προσωπολήμπτης),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4382 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpros-o-pol-ape-see'-ah
partiality, i.e. favoritism
Fromfrom G4381;
King Jamesrespect of persons.
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
respect of persons, NT
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 nominative | prosōpolēmpsias3×προσωπολημψία | prosōpolēmpsiais |
| object accusative | prosōpolēmpsian | prosōpolēmpsiain |
| direct address vocative | prosōpolēmpsiar | prosōpolēmpsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | prosōpolēmpsiau | prosōpolēmpsiaiu |
| to, for dative | prosōpolēmpsia | prosōpolēmpsiai1×προσωπολημψίαις |
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
prosōpolēmpsia 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
prosōpolēmpsias“partiality”subjectnominative singular3×
Romans 2:11“partiality”ouk gar atō prosōpolēmpsias para to theo.For God does not …
Ephesians 6:9“partiality”… tos kurios atō en ouranoi, kai prosōpolēmpsias ouk atō para auto.And masters, do the same for your slaves. Give up your use of threats, because you know that He who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with Him.
Colossians 3:25“partiality”… komizeti hem adikata, kai ouk atō prosōpolēmpsias.… will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism.
prosōpolēmpsiai“partiality”to, fordative plural1×
James 2:1“partiality”Adelfoir mu, mē en prosōpolēmpsiai echavōr tan pistian tou kuriou nu …My brothers, as you hold out your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, do not show favoritism.