adjective
ruparos
Strong’sG4508
filthy, defiled
stem rupar-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 26 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.
ῥυπαρός, -ά, -όν
(< ῥύπος), [in LXX: Za 3:4, 5, (3, 4) (צוֹא)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4508 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidrhoo-par-os'
dirty, i.e. (relatively) cheap or shabby; morally, wicked
Fromfrom G4509;
King Jamesvile.
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
filthy, dirty, κόλυθρον Refs 5th c.BC+; ῥ. εἴριον greasy, Refs 5th c.BC+; unpurged, σῶμα Refs 6th c.AD+
2 metaphorically, sordid, mean, ἤδη χορηγὸν πώποτε -ώτερον τοῦδ᾽ εἶδε; Refs 5th c.BC+; uncultured, ῥ. τρόποι Refs 6th c.BC+; βίος δουλοπρεπὴς καὶ ῥ. Refs 4th c.BC+; ῥ. πολῖται, ὄχλος, Refs 1st c.BC+; of style, Refs 3rd c.AD+. adverb -ρῶςRefs 4th c.BC+: superlative -ώταταRefs 2nd c.AD+
3 of coins, made of base metal, gold or silver alloy, ἀργυρίου ῥυπαρὰς δραχμάς Refs 2nd c.AD+
4 κροτὼν ῥ., probably ={ἀδειγμάτιστος}, Refs 3rd c.BC+; σῖτος ῥ. unwinnowed, Refs 1st c.BC+; κριθὴ ῥ. Refs 4th 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | ruparos1×ῥυπαρὸς | ruparas | ruparem | ruparois | ruparais | rupareim |
| object accusative | ruparon | ruparan | ruparoin | ruparain | ||
| direct address vocative | ruparor | ruparar | ruparoir | ruparair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | ruparou | ruparau | rupareu | ruparoiu | ruparaiu | rupareiu |
| to, for dative | ruparo | rupara1×ῥυπαρᾷ | rupare | ruparoi | ruparai | ruparei |
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
rupar 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
ruparos“filthy”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 22:11“filthy”tos adikarōntos adikatar ēti, kai tos ruparos rupareuitar ēti, kai tos dikaios dikaiosunan …Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy …
rupara“filthy”to, fordative singular1×
James 2:2“filthy”… lampra, eiserchateia de kai ptōchos en rupara estha,… ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.