noun · masculine
stachuos
Strong’sG4719
a head of grain
stem stachu-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 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.
στάχυς, -υος, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for שִׁבֹּלֶת;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4719 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidstakh'-oos
a head of grain (as standing out from the stalk)
Fromfrom the base of G2476;
King Jamesear (of corn).
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 5th c.BC+, υος, ὁ: plural στάχυες Refs.1424a333, etc.; Epic dialect dative σταχύεσσιν LXX+8th c.BC+—ear of corn, in plural, Il.[same place], NT+8th c.BC+; τοὺς ὑπερέχοντας τῶν σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐκ καλάμης.. στάχυες, of Bacchylides' poems, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the crop reaped by Cleon in capturing the Spartans at Sphacteria, Refs 5th c.BC+; βίον θερίζειν ὥστε κάρπιμον σ. Refs 5th c.BC+
2 generally, scion, progeny, σ. ἄρσην Refs 3rd c.BC+; δισσὸν Βορέον σ. Refs 4th c.AD+; Ἑλλάδος ἀμώων ἄγαμον σ. Refs
3 name of the chief star in the constellation Virgo, Spica Virginis, Refs 4th c.BC+
II lower part of the abdomen, Refs 1st c.AD+
III base horehound, Stachys germanica, Refs 1st c.AD+
IV νάρδου στάχυς,= ναρδόσταχυς, Refs; ὁ τῆς νάρδου σ. Refs 2nd c.AD+
V surgical bandage, 'spica' bandage, Refs 1st c.AD+
VI παρὰ τοῖς ναυπηγοῖς τὸ ἐπὶ τῆς φάλαγγος μεριζόμενον, Refs 5th c.AD+
VII = Heb. shibboleth, LXX
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 | stachuos | stachuois |
| object accusative | stachuon1×στάχυν | stachuoin3×στάχυας |
| direct address vocative | stachuor | stachuoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | stachuou | stachuoiu |
| to, for dative | stachuo1×στάχυϊ | stachuoi |
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
stachuo 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
stachuon“head”objectaccusative singular1×
Mark 4:28… tas gēas karpoforatō, prōtem chorton, eita stachuon, eita plēron siton en to stachuo.… crop— first the stalk, then the head, then grain that ripens within.
stachuo“head”to, fordative singular1×
Mark 4:28“head”… stachuon, eita plēron siton en to stachuo.… stalk, then the head, then grain that ripens …
stachuoin“heads of grain”objectaccusative plural3×
Matthew 12:1… mathētois autou peinala kai archela tillarō stachuoin kai esthiarō.… hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.
Mark 2:23… autou archela hodan poiarō tillarōntois toin stachuoin.… His disciples began to pick the heads of grain as they walked along.
Luke 6:1… tois mathētois autou kai esthiale toin stachuoin psōcharōntois tai cheirai.… His disciples began to pick the heads of grain, rub them in their hands, and …