noun · feminine
siagonas
Strong’sG4600
the jawbone, cheek
stem siagon-2 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.
σιαγών, -όνος, ἡ
[in LXX for לְחִי;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4600 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsee-ag-one'
the jaw-bone, i.e. (by implication) the cheek or side of the face
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamescheek.
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
Ionic dialect σῐηγών, όνος, ἡ, jaw-bone, jaw, LXX+5th c.BC+; of an ox, Refs 5th c.BC+; of a camel, probably in Refs 2nd c.AD+; κινεῖται δὲ τοῖς.. ζῴοις ἅπασιν ἡ κάτωθεν σ., κτλ., Refs 4th c.BC+; cheek, NT+3rd c.BC+:—written συαγών, Refs 2nd c.AD+; also σεαγών, Refs 2nd 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 | siagonas | siagonais |
| object accusative | siagonan2×σιαγόνα | siagonain |
| direct address vocative | siagonar | siagonair |
| of, belonging to genitive | siagonau | siagonaiu |
| to, for dative | siagona | siagonai |
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
siagona 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
siagonan“cheek”objectaccusative singular2×
Matthew 5:39… hotinos sin rapizatō eis tan dexan siagonan, strefasar auto kai tan allosan;… someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also;
Luke 6:29to tuptarōnto sin epi tan siagonan parechasōr kai tan allosan, kai apo …If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also …