noun · masculine

puthōnos

Greekπύθων (puthōn)

Strong’sG4436

a divining spirit

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

Translated as

divination1×

What it means

* πύθων, -ωνος, ὁ,

1. in cl., Python, a serpent slain by Apollo, who is hence surnamed the Pythian.

2. In Plut. (ii, 414 E), a name given to ventriloquist soothsayers (ἐγγαστρίμυθοι; cf. Le 19:31 20:6, 27, I Ki 28:7), and perhaps in this sense πνεῦμα πύθωνα, a python-spirit: Ac 16:16.†

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

Strong’s G4436 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpoo'-thone

a Python, i.e. (by analogy, with the supposed diviner there) inspiration (soothsaying)

Fromfrom Πυθώ (the name of the region where Delphi, the seat of the famous oracle, was located);

King Jamesdivination.

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 case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	puthōnos	puthōnois
object accusative	puthōnon1×πύθωνα	puthōnoin
direct address vocative	puthōnor	puthōnoir
of, belonging to genitive	puthōnou	puthōnoiu
to, for dative	puthōno	puthōnoi

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

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

puthōno 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

puthōnon“divination”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 16:16“divination”Gineta de poreuerōtoiu nu eis tan proseuchan paidiskan tinan echarōtan pneumem puthōnon hupantara ni, hotinas ergasian pollan parechate toi kurioi autau manteuerōtas;One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl with a spirit of divination, who earned a large income for her masters by fortune-telling.