seiras

Strong’sG4577

a chain

stem seir-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.

σειρά, -ᾶς, ἡ

[in LXX: Jg 16:13, 14, 19 (מַחְלָפוֺת), Pr 5:22 (חֶבֶל) *;]

(a) a cord;

(b) a chain (cf. Pr., l.c.): σειραὶ ζόφου, II Pe 2:4, Rec., R, mg. (v.s. σειρός).

2. a lock of hair (Jg, ll. c.).†

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

Strong’s G4577 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidsi-rah'

akin to G138); a chain (as binding or drawing)

Fromprobably from G4951 through its congener εἴρω (to fasten;

King Jameschain.

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

σειρά,
Ionic dialect σειρή, Doric dialect σηρά Refs 4th c.AD+: ἡ:— cord, rope, σειράς τ᾽ εὐπλέκτους Refs 8th c.BC+; σ. χρυσείη cord of gold, LXX+8th c.BC+; σειραὶ ζόφου variant in NT
2 trace (compare σειραφόρος), Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 cord or line with a noose, lasso, used by the Sagartians and Sarmatians, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 a bandage, Refs 2nd c.AD+; σ. μονομερής, διμερής, κτλ. Refs 2nd c.AD+
5 ἡ σ. τοῦ βίρρου,= cimussatio (probably edge, border), Refs
II metaphorically of an animal's tail, Refs 2nd c.BC+
III σειραὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς locks of hair, LXX+2nd c.AD+
IV metaphorically, line, lineage, Tz.ad Refs 8th c.BC+
V series, Refs 5th c.AD+
VI plural, a disease of horses, Refs
VII the front part of the perineum, Refs 6th 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.

chains1×

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	seiras	seirais
object accusative	seiran	seirain
direct address vocative	seirar	seirair
of, belonging to genitive	seirau	seiraiu
to, for dative	seira	seirai1×σειραῖς

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

seirstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

seira 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

seirai“chains”to, fordative plural1×

2 Peter 2:4… theos angeloiu hamartarantoiu ouk feideta, alla seirai zofou tartararantos paradōata eis krisian tērorōntoin,… deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for …