noun · masculine
puthōnos
Strong’sG4436
a divining spirit
stem puthōn-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.
* πύθων, -ωνος, ὁ,
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(compare Πυθώ) the serpent “Python”, slain by Apollo, Refs 4th c.BC+
II παιδίσκη ἔχουσα πνεῦμα Πύθωνα a spirit of divination, NT
II.2 plural Πύθωνες, ventriloquists, Refs 1st c.AD+
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 | 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
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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
puthōnon“divination”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 16:16… tan proseuchan paidiskan tinan echarōntan pneumem puthōnon hupantara ni, hotinas ergasian pollan parechate …… slave girl with a spirit of divination, who earned a large income for …