adjective
tachinas
Strong’sG5031
swift, quick
stem tachin-2 times in the New Testament2 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.
ταχινός, -ή, -όν
[in LXX: Pr 1:16, Hb 1:6, Is 59:7 (מָהַר), Wi 13:2, Si 11:22 18:26 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5031 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtakh-ee-nos'
curt, i.e. impending
Fromfrom G5034;
King Jamesshortly, swift.
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
poetry and late Prose for ταχύς, φρένες, ἴουλοι, NT+3rd c.BC+: superlative -ώτατοςRefs 4th 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | tachinos | tachinas1×ταχινή | tachinem | tachinois | tachinais | tachineim |
| object accusative | tachinon | tachinan1×ταχινὴν | tachinoin | tachinain | ||
| direct address vocative | tachinor | tachinar | tachinoir | tachinair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | tachinou | tachinau | tachineu | tachinoiu | tachinaiu | tachineiu |
| to, for dative | tachino | tachina | tachine | tachinoi | tachinai | tachinei |
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
tachin 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
tachinas“soon”subjectnominative singular1×
2 Peter 1:14horarēntos hoti tachinas atō tas apothesias teu skēnōmeu mu, …… I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord …
tachinan“swift”objectaccusative singular1×
2 Peter 2:1… agorazaranton autoin despoton arnorōntois, epagarōntois heautoi tachinan apōleian;… the Master who bought them — bringing swift destruction on themselves.