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noun · masculine

prosōpolēmptos

Greekπροσωπολήμπτης (prosōpolēmptēs)

Strong’sG4381

one who shows partiality

stem prosōpolēmpt-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

one who shows partiality

What it means

*† προσωπο-λήμπτης (Rec. -λήπτης, v. Bl., § 6, 8), -ου, ὁ

(< πρόσωπον λαμβάνειν, v.s. πρόσωπον),

a respecter of persons: Ac 10:34 (on this group of cognate forms, v. Mayor, ja., 78 f.; and cf. Thackeray, Gr., 44).†

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

Strong’s G4381 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpros-o-pol-ape'-tace

an accepter of a face (individual), i.e. (specially), one exhibiting partiality

Fromfrom G4383 and G2983;

King Jamesrespecter of persons.

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativeprosōpolēmptosπροσωπολήμπτηςprosōpolēmptois
object accusativeprosōpolēmptonprosōpolēmptoin
direct address vocativeprosōpolēmptorprosōpolēmptoir
of, belonging to genitiveprosōpolēmptouprosōpolēmptoiu
to, for dativeprosōpolēmptoprosōpolēmptoi

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
prosōpolēmptstem+ogender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

prosōpolēmpto 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

Words built on the same stem

prosōpolēmptamō — προσωπολημπτέω, I show partiality

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

prosōpolēmptos“one who shows partiality”subjectnominative singular

Acts 10:34“one who shows partiality”Anoigaratos de Petros tem stomem legata; Epi alētheiau katalambemō hoti ouk atō prosōpolēmptos tos theos,Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,