noun · masculine
tauros
Strong’sG5022
a bull, an ox
stem taur-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 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.
ταῦρος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for שׁוֹר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5022 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtow'-ros
a bullock
Fromapparently a primary word (compare , "steer");
King Jamesbull, ox.
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
bull, Refs 8th c.BC+; as a sacrifice to Poseidon, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἄπεχε τῆς βοὸς τὸν τ., oracularly of Agamemnon and his wife, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 priest of Poseidon Taureios, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 a kind of Lycian boat with bull as figurehead, postulated to explain Europa's bull, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II the bull as a sign of the Zodiac, Refs 4th c.BC+
III ={κοχώνη}, Refs 2nd c.AD+: also the pudenda muliebria, Refs 9th c.AD+: the male αἰδοῖον, Refs (Cf. Latin taurus, Lithuanian tauras, Slavonic tur[ucaron], etc.)
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 | tauros | taurois1×ταῦροί |
| object accusative | tauron | tauroin1×ταύρους |
| direct address vocative | tauror | tauroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | taurou | tauroiu2×ταύρων |
| to, for dative | tauro | tauroi |
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
tauro 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
taurois“oxen”subjectnominative plural1×
Matthew 22:4… Idou tem aristem mu hetoimazamē, tois taurois mu kai teim sitisteim thuorēnteim, kai …… I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed …
tauroin“oxen”objectaccusative plural1×
Acts 14:13“oxen”… Zevou tou arōntou pro tau polau tauroin kai stemmeim epi toin pulōnoin ferarantos …… priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates, hoping to …
tauroiu“bulls”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Hebrews 9:13ei gar tem haimem tragoiu kai tauroiu kai spodas damaliau rantizarōntas toin koinorēntoin …… if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer …
Hebrews 10:4adunatem gar haimem tauroiu kai tragoiu afairarō hamartain.… is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.