noun · neuter
sinapiem
Strong’sG4615
mustard
stem sinapi-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 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.
† σίναπι, -εως, τό
(prob. Egyptian), = Attic τὸ νᾶπυ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4615 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsin'-ap-ee
mustard (the plant)
Fromperhaps from σίνομαι (to hurt, i.e. sting);
King Jamesmustard.
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
Refs 4th c.BC+; genitive εως NT+2nd c.BC+; ιος Refs 3rd c.BC+; ις Refs 4th c.AD+; dative ι Refs 2nd c.AD+; also σίνᾱπυ, Refs 3rd c.BC+; genitive υος Refs 2nd c.AD+; σίνηπι, Refs 1st c.AD+; genitive εως Refs 3rd c.BC+; ιος Refs 2nd c.AD+; σίνηπυ, Refs 2nd c.BC+; also σίνηπυς, accusative υν, ὁ, Refs 2nd c.BC+, and σίνᾱπις, ἡ, Herod.middle in Refs:— mustard, Sinapis alba:—in early Attic dialect and Ionic dialect none of these forms appear, but νᾶπυ, Refs 5th c.BC+
II σίνηπι ἄγριον or Περσικόν,= θλάσπι, Ps.-Refs 1st c.AD+
III σ. κηπαῖον, Brassica nigra, Refs
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 | sinapiem | sinapieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | sinapieu5×σινάπεως | sinapieiu |
| to, for dative | sinapie | sinapiei |
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
sinapie 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
sinapieu“mustard”of, belonging togenitive singular5×
Matthew 13:31… atō tas basileias toiu ouranoiu kokko sinapieu, hon labarantos anthrōpos sperata en to …… kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and …
Matthew 17:20… vi, ean echaveiō pistian hōs kokkon sinapieu, legavi te ore houte; Metabainasar enthen …… have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this …
Mark 4:31hōs kokko sinapieu, hos hotan speriteia epi tau gēau, …It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of …
Luke 13:19homoias atō kokko sinapieu, hon labarantos anthrōpos balata eis kēpon …It is like a mustard seed that a man tossed into …
Luke 17:6… kurios; Ei echavō pistian hōs kokkon sinapieu, legave an ta sukamina houta; Ekrizisar …… have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this …