noun · masculine
purros
Strong’sG4450
Pyrrhus
stem purr-once in the New Testament1 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.
πυρρός, -ά, -όν
(< πῦρ), [in LXX for אֱדֹם;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4450 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpoor-hros'
fire-like, i.e. (specially), flame- colored
Fromfrom G4442;
King Jamesred.
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
(Ionic dialect ή), όν, but Trag. and Doric dialect πυρσός, ή (Doric dialect ά), όν, Refs 5th c.BC+; rare in Prose, Refs 1st c.AD+: (πῦρ):— flame-coloured, yellowish-red (πυρρὸν ξανθοῦ τε καὶ φαιοῦ κράσει γίγνεται Refs 5th c.BC+. the yolk of an egg, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ λευκότης γίγνεται πυρρή Refs 5th c.BC+ of sediment in urine, Refs
2 especially of persons with red hair, Refs 6th c.BC+; of the colour of the first beard, γενειάς A.[same place]; γένυες Refs 5th c.BC+; [θρίξ] Refs 3rd c.BC+
3 generally, tawny, λέων NT+5th c.BC+; τὰ χρώματα τῶν κυνῶν Refs 5th c.BC+
4 of more positive colour, red, χλανίς LXX+5th c.BC+; τὸ π. redness, Refs 5th c.BC+ —_Epic dialect_ _comparative_ (for πυρρότερα), πῠρώτερα φοινίσσεσθαι to be of a brighter red, Refs 4th c.BC+
5 blushing, Refs 5th c.BC+; also κύων.. πύρσ᾽ ἔχουσα δέργματα glaring with bloodshot eyes, Refs 5th c.BC+
II paroxytone Πύρρος, ὁ, “Pyrrhus”, as proper name; also Πύρϝος, name of a horse, Refs 6th 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.
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 | purros | purrois |
| object accusative | purron | purroin |
| direct address vocative | purror | purroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | purrou1×Πύρρου | purroiu |
| to, for dative | purro | purroi |
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
purro 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
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
purrou“Pyrrhus”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 20:4sunepote de auto Sōpatros Purrou Beroiaios, Thessalonikevoiu de Aristarchos kai Sekoundos, …… was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from …