noun · neuter
sebasmem
Strong’sG4574
an object of worship
stem sebasm-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books0 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.
** σέβασμα, -τος, τό
(< σεβάζομαι), [in LXX: Wi 14:20 15:17, Da TH Bel 1:27 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4574 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidseb'-as-mah
something adored, i.e. an object of worship (god, altar, etc)
Fromfrom G4573;
King Jamesdevotion, that is worshipped.
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
that for which awe is felt, an object of awe or worship, NT+1st c.BC+
II ={σέβασις}, Refs 1st 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.
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 | sebasmem | sebasmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | sebasmeu | sebasmeiu |
| to, for dative | sebasme | sebasmei |
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
sebasme 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
sebasmeim1×
Acts 17:23dierchorōntos gar kai anatheōrarōntos teim sebasmeim vu heuriskama kai bōmon en ho …… I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with …
sebasmem1×
2 Thessalonians 2:4… huperairorōntos epi panton legorōnton theon ē sebasmem, hōste auton eis ton naon tou …… himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in …