noun · masculine
sētos
Strong’sG4597
a moth
stem sēt-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
σής, σητός (late gen. for cl. σεός), ὁ,
[in LXX: Jb 4:19, Is 50:9 (עָשׁ), Is 51:8 (סָס), al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4597 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsace
a moth
Fromapparently of Hebrew origin ();
King Jamesmoth.
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
genitive σεός (as if from σεύς, which is given as nominative by Refs 4th c.AD+; genitive σέων Refs 5th c.BC+ —the forms σητός, σῆτες, σητῶν, etc., were later, as in Refs 4th c.BC+ [same place], etc.:—moth, [χρυσὸν] οὐ σ. οὐδὲ κὶς δάπτει NT+5th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, σῆτες ἀκανθοβάται or -λόγοι, of the Grammarians, bookworms, Refs 1st 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 nominative | sētos3×σὴς | sētois |
| object accusative | sēton | sētoin |
| direct address vocative | sētor | sētoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | sētou | sētoiu |
| to, for dative | sēto | sētoi |
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
sēto 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
sētos“moth”subjectnominative singular3×
Matthew 6:19… vi thēsauroin epi tau gēau, hopou sētos kai brōsias afanizatō, kai hopou kleptois …… for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves …
Matthew 6:20… vi thēsauroin en ourano, hopou oute sētos oute brōsias afanizatō, kai hopou kleptois …… for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and …
Luke 12:33… ouranoi, hopou kleptos ouk engizatō oude sētos diaftheratō;… where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.