noun · masculine
sidēros
Strong’sG4604
iron
stem sidēr-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.
σίδηρος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for בַּרְזֶל;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4604 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsid'-ay-ros
iron
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesiron.
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
Doric dialect σίδᾱρος Refs 4th c.BC+, etc.: ; also ἡ, Refs 2nd c.BC+: neuter σίδηρον, τό, Refs 8th c.BC+ (but probably falsa lectio for{σιδήριον} in Refs 2nd c.AD+: —iron, σ. πολιός Refs 8th c.BC+; as an article of traffic, οἰνίζοντο.. Ἀχαιοί, ἄλλοι μὲν χαλκῷ, ἄλλοι δ᾽ αἴθωνι σ. Refs 8th c.BC+; χαλκός τε χρυσός τε πολύκμητός τε σ., of treasures, Refs 8th c.BC+; as a prize, Refs; Σκύθης σ., because brought from the Euxine, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 frequently as a symbol of hardness Refs, or of stubborn force, Refs 8th c.BC+; ὀφθαλμοὶ ὡσεὶ κέρα ἕστασαν ἠὲ σRefs 8th c.BC+; also of firmness, steadfastness, πέτρης ὅ γ᾽ ἔχων νόον ἠὲ σ. Refs 2nd c.BC+
II anything made of iron, iron tool or implement, for husbandry, Refs 8th c.BC+: also of weapons, arrow-head, Refs; sword or knife, Refs 8th c.BC+; axe-head, Refs 8th c.BC+: generally, arms, οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι σ. κατέθεντο Refs 5th c.BC+: also, knife, sickle, Refs 8th c.BC+: plural, fishing-hooks, Refs 3rd c.BC+; irons, fetters, Refs 2nd c.AD+; compare σιδήριον.
III place for selling iron, smithy or cutler's shop, ἀγαγόντα εἰς τὸν σ. Refs 5th 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 nominative | sidēros | sidērois |
| object accusative | sidēron | sidēroin |
| direct address vocative | sidēror | sidēroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | sidērou1×σιδήρου | sidēroiu |
| to, for dative | sidēro | sidēroi |
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
sidēro 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
sidērou“iron”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Revelation 18:12… ek xuleu timiotateu kai chalkou kai sidērou kai marmarou,… article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;