stērigmos

Strong’sG4740

firmness, steadfastness

stem stērigm-once in the New Testament1 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.

** στηριγμός, -οῦ, ὁ

(< στηρίζω), [in Sm.: Is 3:1 *;]

1. a setting firmly, supporting.

2. fixedness, firmness, steadfastness: II Pe 3:17.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4740 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidstay-rig-mos'

stability (figuratively)

Fromfrom G4741;

King Jamesstedfastness.

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

στηριγ-μός, ὁ,
being fixed, standing still, τῶν πλανήτων ἀστέρων Refs 1st c.BC+ bisRefs 3rd c.AD+
2 fixedness, of steady light, opposed to flashing, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 metaphorically, ἐκπεσεῖν τοῦ ἰδίου σ. from your proper firmness, NT
4 Rhet., sustaining of the voice on certain words or syllables, so as to give them force, αἱ μακραὶ συλλαβαί, στηριγμούς τινας ἔχουσαι καὶ ἐγκαθίσματα Refs 1st c.BC+; στηριγμοὺς ἔχειν πρὸς ἄλληλα τὰ ὀνόματα mutual support, buttressing, Refs 3rd c.AD+; compare ἀντιστηριγμός.

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.

steadfastness1×

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	stērigmos	stērigmois
object accusative	stērigmon	stērigmoin
direct address vocative	stērigmor	stērigmoir
of, belonging to genitive	stērigmou1×στηριγμοῦ	stērigmoiu
to, for dative	stērigmo	stērigmoi

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

stērigmstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

stērigmo 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

stērigmou“steadfastness”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

2 Peter 3:17“steadfastness”… athesmoiu plana sunapagirantois ekpiptaveia tou idiou stērigmou,… not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure …