adjective
sidērouos
Strong’sG4603
made of iron
stem sidērou-5 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 of 26 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.
σιδήρεος, -α, -ον (-οῦς, -ᾶ -οῦν)
(< σίδηρος), [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 G4603 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsid-ay'-reh-os
made of iron
Fromfrom G4604;
King James(of) iron.
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 and Epic dialect η, ον, Attic dialect contraction σιδηροῦς, ᾶ, οῦν Refs; Epic dialect also σιδήρειος, η, ον, see below; also late, Refs 6th c.AD+ (feminine -ειοςRefs 9th c.AD+; Doric dialect σιδάρεος [ᾱ] Refs 4th c.BC+, and see below 11, also σιδάριος Refs 4th c.BC+; Aeolic dialect σιδάριος Refs 3rd c.BC+:—made of iron or steel, ἄξων Refs 8th c.BC+; χεὶρ σ. grappling-iron, Refs 5th c.BC+, i.e. the clang of arms, Refs 8th c.BC+; σ. οὐρανός the iron sky, the firmament, which the ancients held to be of metal, Refs 8th c.BC+; σ. γένος, of the Refs 8th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, ἦ γὰρ σοί γε σ. ἐν φρεσὶ θυμός a soul of iron, i.e. hard, stubborn as iron, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἦ ῥά νυ σοί γε σ. πάντα τέτυκται thou art iron all! Refs 8th c.BC+; πυρὸς μένος.. σ. the iron force of fire, Refs 8th c.BC+; of Heracles, the ironsided, Refs 4th c.BC+; of men, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὦ σιδήρεοι O ye ironhearted! Refs 5th c.BC+
II σιδάρεοι, οἱ, Byzantine iron coins, always used in Doric dialect form, even at Athens, 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | sidērouos | sidērouas | sidērouem | sidērouois | sidērouais | sidēroueim |
| object accusative | sidērouon | sidērouan1×σιδηρᾶν | sidērouoin1×σιδηροῦς | sidērouain | ||
| direct address vocative | sidērouor | sidērouar | sidērouoir | sidērouair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | sidērouou | sidērouau | sidēroueu | sidērouoiu | sidērouaiu | sidēroueiu |
| to, for dative | sidērouo | sidēroua3×σιδηρᾷ | sidēroue | sidērouoi | sidērouai | sidērouei |
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
sidērou 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
sidērouan“iron”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 12:10… deuteran erchala epi tan pulan tan sidērouan tan ferarōntan eis tan polan, hotinas …… second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city, which …
sidēroua“iron”to, fordative singular3×
Revelation 2:27kai poimanati autoin en rabda sidēroua hōs teim skeveim teim keramikeim suntribotō,He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery …
Revelation 12:5… poimanarō panteim teim ethneim en rabda sidēroua; kai harpazita tem teknem autau pros …… rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was caught …
Revelation 19:15… kai autos poimanati autoin en rabda sidēroua; kai autos patatō tan lēnan tou …… He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of …
sidērouoin“iron”objectaccusative plural1×
Revelation 9:9kai echale thōrakoin hōs thōrakoin sidērouoin, kai tas fōnas taiu pterugaiu autaiu …… also had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings …