sapros

Strong’sG4550

rotten, useless, corrupt

stem sapr-8 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books4 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.

** σαπρός, -ά -όν

[in Sm.: Le 27:14, 33 *;]

rotten, corrupt, bad, worthless: of trees and fruit (opp. to ἀγαθός, καλός), Mt 7:17, 18 12:33 Lk 6:43; of fish, Mt 13:48.

Metaph., in moral sense: λόγος σ., Eph 4:29. "In Hellenistic... it became a synonym for αἰσχρός or κακός," MM, xxii.†

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

Strong’s G4550 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidsap-ros'

rotten, i.e. worthless (literally or morally)

Fromfrom G4595;

King Jamesbad, corrupt.

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

σαπρός, ά, όν,
(σήπω) rotten, putrid, Refs 6th c.BC+; of the lungs, diseased, Refs; of bone, carious, Refs; of wood, etc., rotten, ἱστίον Refs 5th c.BC+; πινακίσκος, φορμός, σχοινίον, Refs 4th c.BC+; τοῦ διατειχίσματος ἀνελόντι τὰ σ. Refs; of a house, σ. καὶ ῥέουσα καὶ καταπίπτουσα Telesp.27 H.; ἐλαῖαι Refs 6th c.BC+: especially, of fish that have been long in pickle, stale, rancid, τάριχος Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to πρόσφατος, Refs 4th c.BC+; of withered flowers, Refs 4th c.BC+ adverb, -ρῶς λούει τὰ βαλανεῖα so as to leave one filthy, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II generally, stale, worn out, ἀρχαῖον καὶ σαπρόν Refs 5th c.BC+; of clothes, Refs 2nd c.AD+ adverb, -ῶς (perhaps misspelt for -ός) περιπατῶ I am walking about in rags, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 of persons, γέρων ὢν καὶ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ὦ σαπρά, to an old woman, Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐδέν ἐσμεν οἱ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 of wine, mellow (compare σαπρίας), Refs 5th c.BC+; of old wine, ὀδόντας οὐκ ἔχων, ἤδη σαπρὸς.., γέρων γε δαιμονίως Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.4 εἰρήνη σαπρά, a joke παρὰ προσδοκίαν, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.5 metaphorically, unsound, bad, λόγος NT; opposed to καλός, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ἄρουραι Refs 2nd c.AD+; τὰ σ. ταῦτα Refs 1st c.AD+; τὴν σ. εἱμαρμένην the evil fate, Refs
III of sound, αὐλεῖ γὰρ σαπρὰ.. κρουμάτια 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.

bad7×unwholesome1×

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	sapros1×σαπρὸς	sapras	saprem4×σαπρὸν	saprois	saprais	sapreim1×σαπρὰ
object accusative	sapron2×σαπρόν	sapran		saproin	saprain
direct address vocative	sapror	saprar		saproir	saprair
of, belonging to genitive	saprou	saprau	sapreu	saproiu	sapraiu	sapreiu
to, for dative	sapro	sapra	sapre	saproi	saprai	saprei

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

saprstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

sapr 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.

8 occurrences, every one of them listed

sapros“unwholesome”subjectnominative singular1×

Ephesians 4:29pantos logos sapros ek teu stomeu vu mē ekporeuotōr, …Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths …

sapron“bad”objectaccusative singular2×

Matthew 12:33… dendrem saprem kai ton karpon auteu sapron; ek gar tou karpou tem dendrem …… bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by …

Luke 6:43… gar atō dendrem kalem poiarōntem karpon sapron, oude palin dendrem saprem poiarōntem karpon …No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree …

saprem“bad”subject or objectdirect singular4×

Matthew 7:17… agathem karpoin kaloin poiatō, tem de saprem dendrem karpoin ponēroin poiatō;… tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.

Matthew 7:18… agathem karpoin ponēroin poiarō, oude dendrem saprem karpoin kaloin poiarō.… cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.

Luke 6:43… poiarōntem karpon sapron, oude palin dendrem saprem poiarōntem karpon kalon.… bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.

Matthew 12:33… auteu kalon, ē poiavar tem dendrem saprem kai ton karpon auteu sapron; ek …… be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad …

sapreim“bad”subject or objectdirect plural1×

Matthew 13:48… teim kaleim eis angeim, teim de sapreim exō balala.… fish into containers, but threw the bad away.