schoiniem

Strong’sG4979

a cord, rope

stem schoini-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.

σχοινίον, -ου, τό

(dimin. of σχοῖνος, a rush), [in LXX chiefly for חֶבֶל;]

a rope (prop., one made of rushes): Jo 2:15, Ac 27:32.†

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

Strong’s G4979 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidskhoy-nee'-on

of uncertain derivation); a rushlet, i.e. grass-withe or tie (generally)

Fromdiminutive of σχοῖνος (a rush or flag-plant;

King Jamessmall cord, rope.

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

σχοιν-ίον, τό,
diminutive of σχοῖνος Refs, small rope, cord or thread, Refs 5th c.BC+; simply, rope, e.g. for mooring a ship, Refs 1st c.AD+; πλεῖς τὴν θάλατταν σχοινίων πωλουμένω; when there are ropes for sale? Refs 4th c.BC+
2 measuring-line, LXX+4th c.BC+
2.b measure, portion, LXX
2.c Refscubits, the side of an ἄρουρα, Refs 2nd c.BC+
3 girdle, LXX
4 σ. βοτρύων, ={σχοινιά} Refs
II metaphorically, λύειν σχοινίον μεριμνᾶν the cord of cares (which binds one), Refs 5th c.BC+
III Comedy texts, membrum virile, 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.

cords1×ropes1×

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	schoiniem	schoinieim
of, belonging to genitive	schoinieu	schoinieiu1×σχοινίων
to, for dative	schoinie	schoiniei

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

schoinistem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

schoinie 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.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

schoinieiu“cords”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

John 2:15kai poiarantos fragelliem ek schoinieiu pantoin ekbalata ek teu hiereu teim …… He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple …

schoinieim1×

Acts 27:32tote apokoptala tois stratiōtois teim schoinieim tau skafau kai easala autan ekpiptara.So the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat and set it …