noun · neuter
sfudrem
Strong’sG4974
the ankle bone
stem sfudr-once in the New Testament1 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.
*† σφυδρόν, -οῦ, τό
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4974 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsfoo-ron'
compare the feminine σφῦρα, a hammer); the ankle (as globular)
Fromneuter of a presumed derivative probably of the same as σφαῖρα (a ball, "sphere";
King Jamesancle bone.
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
ankle, κνῆμαί τε ἰδὲ σφυρά Refs 8th c.BC+; ὀρθῷ ἔστασας ἐπὶ σφυρῷ (metaphorically) Refs 5th c.BC+; μονόχαλα σ., of a horse, Refs; τὸ σ. ἐξεκόκκισε put out his ankle, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ ἔσχατον ἀντικνημίου σ. Refs 4th c.BC+; σ. Ἰφίκλειον the ankle of Iphiclus (the runner), Refs 3rd c.BC+
II metaphorically, the lower part or edge, foothills, of a mountain, ἐν Παλίου σφυροῖς Refs 5th c.BC+; Λιβύας ἄκρον σφυρόν the very furthest part of Libya, Refs 3rd 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 | sfudrem | sfudreim1×σφυδρά |
| of, belonging to genitive | sfudreu | sfudreiu |
| to, for dative | sfudre | sfudrei |
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
sfudre 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
sfudreim“ankles”subject or objectdirect plural1×
Acts 3:7… stereoila tais basiais autou kai teim sfudreim,… at once the man’s feet and ankles were made strong.