adjective
steiras
Strong’sG4723
barren
stem steir-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books4 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.
στεῖρος, -ον also -α, -ον,
[in LXX for עֲקֶרֶת, עֲקָרָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4723 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsti'-ros
"sterile"
Froma contraction from G4731 (as stiff and unnatural);
King Jamesbarren.
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
a cow or other animal
B that has not brought forth young, στεῖραν βοῦν.. ῥέξειν Refs 8th c.BC+
B.II of women, barren, LXX+NT; Μοῖρα σ. Refs 1st c.BC+; of women past childbearing, Refs 5th c.BC+
B.II.2 not having had offspring, virgin, Refs 3rd c.BC+. (Cf. Sanskrit star[imacracute]s 'barren cow, heifer', Latin sterilis.)
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 | steiros | steiras1×στεῖρα | steirem | steirois | steirais1×στεῖραι | steireim |
| object accusative | steiron | steiran | steiroin | steirain | ||
| direct address vocative | steiror | steirar1×στεῖρα | steiroir | steirair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | steirou | steirau | steireu | steiroiu | steiraiu | steireiu |
| to, for dative | steiro | steira1×στείρᾳ | steire | steiroi | steirai | steirei |
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
steir 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
steiras“barren”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 1:7… autoi teknem, kathoti ate tas Elisabet steiras, kai amfoterois probainarēntois en tai hēmerai …… had no children, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well along …
steirar“barren”direct addressvocative singular1×
Galatians 4:27grafotē gar; Eufranisar, steirar tas ouk tiktarōntar, rēgasar kai boasar, …For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break …
steira“barren”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 1:36… mēnos hektos atō auta ta kalorōnta steira;… age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth month.
steirais“barren”subjectnominative plural1×
Luke 23:29… hēmerais en hai legali Makariais tais steirais kai tais koiliais hais ouk gennala …… people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore …