noun · feminine
spodas
Strong’sG4700
ashes
stem spod-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
σποδός, -οῦ, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for אֵפֶר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4700 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidspod-os'
ashes
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesashes.
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
wood-ashes, embers, Refs 8th c.BC+: generally, ashes, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπ᾽ Ἰσμηνοῦ τε μαντεία σ., of the ashes of an altar, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the dead, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀμφὶ σποδὸν κάρᾳ κεχύμεθα, in sign of mourning, Refs 5th c.BC+:—death by plunging into a room filled with ashes, αὐτήν μιν ῥῖψαι ἐς οἴκημα σποδοῦ πλέον Refs 5th c.BC+; as a Persian punishment (cf. Val. LXX+5th c.BC+
II dust, τῆς χαμᾶθεν σποδοῦ Refs 5th c.BC+; μετρεῖν τὴν σ., of labour in vain, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III oxide of certain metals, σ. Κυπρίη copper oxide, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV metaphorically, κυλίκων, πίθων σ., of a bibulous old woman, 'soaker', 'sponge', Refs 1st c.AD+
V lava, Refs 1st 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 | spodas1×σποδὸς | spodais |
| object accusative | spodan | spodain |
| direct address vocative | spodar | spodair |
| of, belonging to genitive | spodau | spodaiu |
| to, for dative | spoda2×σποδῷ | spodai |
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
spoda 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
spodas“ashes”subjectnominative singular1×
Hebrews 9:13… tem haimem tragoiu kai tauroiu kai spodas damaliau rantizarōntas toin koinorēntoin hagiazatō pros …… of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those …
spoda“ashes”to, fordative singular2×
Matthew 11:21… vi, palai an en sakko kai spoda metanoala.… repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Luke 10:13… vi, palai an en sakko kai spoda kathorōntois metanoala.… long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.