noun · masculine
smaragdos
Strong’sG4665
an emerald
stem smaragd-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.
σμάραγδος, -ου, ἡ
(and in late writers also ὁ), [in LXX: Ex 28:9 (שֹׁהַם) 36:17 (39:10) (בָּרֶקֶת), Ez 28:13 (יַהֲלֹם), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4665 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsmar'-ag-dos
the emerald or green gem so called
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesemerald.
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
(ὁ, Refs 1st c.BC+, name of several green stones, including the emerald, LXX+5th c.BC+; also μάραγδος, Refs 4th c.BC+; ζμάραγδος implied in Refs 2nd c.AD+
II Σμάραγδος, ἡ, name of the emerald mines in Egypt, ἀρχιμεταλλάρχου τῆς Ζμαράγδου Refs 1st c.AD+; μεταλλάρχη (genitive singular) Ζμαράκτου Refs 1st c.AD+; also Σμάραγδος ὄρος 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 | smaragdos1×σμάραγδος | smaragdois |
| object accusative | smaragdon | smaragdoin |
| direct address vocative | smaragdor | smaragdoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | smaragdou | smaragdoiu |
| to, for dative | smaragdo | smaragdoi |
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
smaragdo 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
smaragdos“emerald”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 21:19… sapfiras, tos tritos chalkēdōnos, tos tetartos smaragdos,… sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,