noun · masculine
stenagmos
Strong’sG4726
a groaning
stem stenagm-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 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.
στεναγμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< στενάζω), [in LXX for אֲנָחָה, אֲנָקָה, נְאָקָה, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4726 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsten-ag-mos'
a sigh
Fromfrom G4727;
King Jamesgroaning.
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
sighing, groaning, Refs 5th 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 | stenagmos | stenagmois |
| object accusative | stenagmon | stenagmoin |
| direct address vocative | stenagmor | stenagmoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | stenagmou1×στεναγμοῦ | stenagmoiu |
| to, for dative | stenagmo | stenagmoi1×στεναγμοῖς |
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
stenagmo 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
stenagmou“groaning”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 7:34… mu tou en Aigupta, kai tou stenagmou autou akouama, kai katabainama exairera autoin; …… in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver …
stenagmoi“groanings”to, fordative plural1×
Romans 8:26“groanings”… oidanē, alla autem tem pneumem huperentunchanatō stenagmoi alalētoi,… do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.