noun · masculine
rupos
Strong’sG4509
filth, dirt
stem rup-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.
ῥύπος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX: Is 4:4 (צֹאָה), Jb 14:4 (טָמֵא), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4509 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhroo'-pos
dirt, i.e. (morally) depravity
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamesfilth.
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
dirt, filth, used by Refs 8th c.BC+ once in irregular plural, κάθηράν τε ῥύπα πάντα Refs 8th c.BC+: later in singular, Refs 7th c.BC+; ὁ ἐν τοῖς ὠσὶ ῥ. Refs 4th c.BC+ see at {γρ; ἅπαν ῥύπον} all of it filth (accusative), Refs 3rd c.BC+; of a person, πρὸς τὸ μὴ λοῦσθαι ῥύπος Refs 4th c.BC+:—also ῥύπος, εος, τό, of cheese-parings, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, sordidness, meanness, ὁ ῥ. τοῦ χαμαὶ βίου Refs 2nd c.AD+
II sealing-wax, τοὺς ῥ. ἀνασπάσαι Refs 5th 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 | rupos | rupois |
| object accusative | rupon | rupoin |
| direct address vocative | rupor | rupoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | rupou1×ῥύπου | rupoiu |
| to, for dative | rupo | rupoi |
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
rupo 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
rupou“dirt”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
1 Peter 3:21… nun sōzatō baptismem, ouk sarkau apothesias rupou alla suneidēsiau agathau eperōtēmem eis theon, …… you also — not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge …