noun · neuter
stemmem
Strong’sG4725
a garland
stem stemm-once in the New Testament0 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.
* στέμμα, -τος, τό
(< στέφω, to put around, enwreath)
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4725 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidstem'-mah
a wreath for show
Fromfrom the base of G4735;
King Jamesgarland.
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
(στέφω) mostly in plural (singular in Refs 8th c.BC+, wreath, garland, chaplet, especially of the priest's laurel-wreath, wound round a staff, στέμματ᾽ ἔχων ἐν χερσὶ.. χρυσέῳ ἀνὰ σκήπτρῳ Refs 8th c.BC+; σκῆπτρον καὶ σ. θεοῖοRefs 5th c.BC+; sometimes worn on the head, σ. ἐπὶ τῶν κεφαλῶν ἐχούσας Refs 5th c.BC+; Φοῖβος ἔλακεν ἐκ τῶν σ. from shrine with chaplcts decked, Refs 5th c.BC+; used in sacrificial ceremony, στέμμασι πυκασθείς (of victim) Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. πάλας, as a prize, Refs; ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν στεμμάτων an official connected with the crowns of office of magistrates (compare στεπτικός, στέφανος), Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 Refs 5th c.BC+ were wreaths of wool wound round the olive-branch; hence στέμματα ξήνασ᾽ Refs 5th c.BC+
II in plural, στέμματα pedigrees, family trees, Refs 1st c.AD+; Latin stemmata quid faciunt? Refs 1st c.AD+
II.2 guild, Refs. guild of huntsmen, 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 | stemmem | stemmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | stemmeu | stemmeiu |
| to, for dative | stemme | stemmei |
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
stemme 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
stemmeim1×
Acts 14:13“garlands”… arōntou pro tau polau tauroin kai stemmeim epi toin pulōnoin ferarantos sun toi …… whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates, hoping to offer a sacrifice along with the crowds.