noun · masculine
salpistos
Strong’sG4538
a trumpeter
stem salpist-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.
* σαλπιστής
(so Inscr. and late writers for Att. σαλπιγκτής), -οῦ, ὁ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4538 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsal-pis-tace'
a trumpeter
Fromfrom G4537;
King Jamestrumpeter.
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
trumpeter, Refs 5th c.BC+ authority and occurs in Refs 5th c.BC+, but has not been found in Attic dialect Inscrr.; σαλπικτής, Refs 4th c.BC+; Boeotian dialect σαλπικτάς Refs 2nd c.AD+, σαλπιγκτάς Refs 1st c.BC+; later σαλπιστής, NT+2nd c.BC+
2 ={ὄρνις ὁμοίως σάλπιγγι φθεγγόμενος}, Refs 9th c.AD+; ={ὀρχίλος}, Refs 5th 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 | salpistos | salpistois |
| object accusative | salpiston | salpistoin |
| direct address vocative | salpistor | salpistoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | salpistou | salpistoiu1×σαλπιστῶν |
| to, for dative | salpisto | salpistoi |
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
salpisto 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
salpistoiu“trumpeters”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Revelation 18:22… kitharōdoiu kai mousikoiu kai aulētoiu kai salpistoiu ouk mē akouiteia en si ēti, …… and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you …