noun · feminine
stigmas
Strong’sG4743
a point of time, an instant
stem stigm-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.
στιγμή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< στίζω, to prick), [in LXX: Is 29:5 (פֶּתַע), II Mac 9:11 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4743 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidstig-may'
a point of time, i.e. an instant
Fromfeminine of G4742;
King Jamesmoment.
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
spot on a bird's plumage, Alex.Mynd. cited in Refs 2nd c.AD+; brand-mark, Refs 1st c.BC+
2 mathematical point, Refs 4th c.BC+; ὅσον σ. αἱματίνη 'a speck of blood', Refs 4th c.BC+
3 metaphorically of anything very small, jot, tittle, εἴ γ᾽ εἶχε στιγμὴν ἢ σκιὰν τούτων Refs 4th c.BC+; of time, LXX+4th c.BC+; ἐν σ. χρόνου in a moment, NT+1st c.AD+; ἐν σ. without χρόνου, Refs 2nd c.AD+; στιγμῇ καιρο,= puncto temporis, Refs
II Grammars, ς. or τελεία σ. full stop, period, μέση σ. colon, Refs 2nd c.BC+ see at {Νικάνω; σ. πᾶσα σημεῖον αὐτοτελείας} Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | stigmas | stigmais |
| object accusative | stigman | stigmain |
| direct address vocative | stigmar | stigmair |
| of, belonging to genitive | stigmau | stigmaiu |
| to, for dative | stigma1×στιγμῇ | stigmai |
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
stigma 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
stigma“moment”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 4:5“moment”… pantain tain basileiain tau oikoumenau en stigma chronou;… showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.