noun · masculine
sardonuxos
Strong’sG4557
sardonyx
stem sardonux-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.
* σαρδόνυξ (L, σαρδιόνυξ), -υχος, ὁ
(< σάρδιον, ὄνυξ),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4557 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsar-don'-oox
hence the "onyx" stone); a "sardonyx", i.e. the gem so called
Fromfrom the base of G4556 and ὄνυξ (the nail of a finger;
King Jamessardonyx.
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
(σάρδιον) sardonyx, NT+4th c.BC+The stone was called ὄνυξ when the dark ground was simply spotted or streaked with white, but σαρδόνυξ if the different colours were disposed in layers.
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 | sardonuxos1×σαρδόνυξ | sardonuxois |
| object accusative | sardonuxon | sardonuxoin |
| direct address vocative | sardonuxor | sardonuxoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | sardonuxou | sardonuxoiu |
| to, for dative | sardonuxo | sardonuxoi |
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
sardonuxo 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
sardonuxos“sardonyx”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 21:20tos pemptos sardonuxos, tos hektos sardiem, tos hebdomos chrusolithos, …the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite …