noun · neuter
sardiem
Strong’sG4555
carnelian
stem sardi-2 times in the New Testament2 of 6 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.
σάρδιον, -ον, τό
[in LXX for אֹדֶם, Ex 28:17, al.; also for שֹׁהַם;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4555 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsar'-dee-nos
sardine (G3037 being implied), i.e. a gem, so called
Fromfrom the same as G4556;
King Jamessardine.
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
the Sardian stone, NT+5th c.BC+; as a seal, Refs 4th c.BC+; σάρδια, of female ornaments, Refs 5th c.BC+—This stone was of two kinds, the transparent-red or female being our carnelian, the transparent-brown or male our sardine, Refs 4th c.BC+:—later λίθος σάρδιος, Refs 6th c.AD+ in “de An.” 321.10 (plural); σάρδινος λ., Refs; σαρδόνιον, 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 or object direct | sardiem1×σάρδιον | sardieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | sardieu | sardieiu |
| to, for dative | sardie1×σαρδίῳ | sardiei |
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
sardie 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
sardiem“carnelian”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Revelation 21:20tos pemptos sardonuxos, tos hektos sardiem, tos hebdomos chrusolithos, tos ogdoos bērullos, …the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl …
sardie“carnelian”to, fordative singular1×
Revelation 4:3… kathorōntos homoios horasia litho iaspia kai sardie, kai irias kuklothen tou thronou homoios …… seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like …