teichem

Strong’sG5038

a wall

stem teich-9 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 of 6 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.

τεῖχος, -ους, τό

[in LXX chiefly for חוֹמָה;]

a wall, esp. that about a town: Ac 9:25, II Co 11:33, He 11:30, Re 21:12-19 †

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

Strong’s G5038 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidti'-khos

a wall (as formative of a house)

Fromakin to the base of G5088;

King Jameswall.

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

τεῖχος, εος, τό,
wall, especially city-wall, Ἰλιόφι κλυτὰ τείχεα Refs 8th c.BC+; of the embankment round the ships, τάφρος Δαναῶν καὶ τ. ὕπερθεν Refs 8th c.BC+; Κιμμέρια τ. earthworks, Refs 5th c.BC+; ξύλινον τεῖχος exceptionally, Oracle texts cited in Refs 5th c.BC+ uses this phrase for a funeral pile, “P.” 3.38); τ. χάλκεον Refs 8th c.BC+; τ. σιδηροῦν, τείχη χαλκᾶ καὶ ἀδαμάντινα, Refs 5th c.BC+; τειχέων κιθῶνες coats of walls, i.e. walls one within the other, Refs 5th c.BC+; τεῖχος ἐλαύνειν, see at {ἐλαύνω} Refs 8th c.BC+ to build oneself walls, Refs 5th c.BC+; τ. περιβαλέσθαι build walls round one's city, Refs 5th c.BC+ —hence _passive_, τεῖχος περιβεβλημένος having a wall round it, Refs 5th c.BC+; τείχη περιβεβλημένοι, of citizens, Refs 4th c.BC+; but also νῆσον περιβάλλεσθαι τείχει surround one's island with walls, Refs 5th c.BC+; τ. ῥήξασθαι breach the wall, Refs 8th c.BC+; so in Prose, τ. διαιρεῖν, περιαιρέειν, κατελεῖν κατασκάψαι, etc., Refs 5th c.BC+
2 τὰ μακρὰ τ., at Athens, lines of wall connecting the city-wall (ὁ περίβολος) and the harbours, Refs 5th c.BC+; they were called respectively τὸ βόρειον or Peiraic, and τὸ νότιον or Phaleric wall Refs 5th c.BC+. Long Wall, Refs 5th c.BC+
II fortification, castle, fort, Refs 5th c.BC+
III walled, fortified town or city, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV wall of a temple, Refs 3rd c.BC+; of a house, Refs 3rd c.AD+, etc. (Cf. Sanskrit dehmi 'anoint, smear, plaster', Gothic digan 'mould, create (= πλάσσω)', daigs 'dough', Latin fingo, figura, Osc. feihúss 'walls', 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.

wall8×walls1×

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 or object direct	teichem1×τεῖχος	teicheim1×τείχη
of, belonging to genitive	teicheu4×τείχους	teicheiu
to, for dative	teiche	teichei

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

teichstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

teiche 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.

9 occurrences, every one of them listed

teichem“wall”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Revelation 21:14kai tem teichem tau polau echarōntos themelioin dōdeka, kai …The wall of the city had twelve foundations …

teicheu“wall”of, belonging togenitive singular4×

Acts 9:25… tois mathētois autou nuktau dia teu teicheu kathiēkala auton chalarantois en spurida.… basket through a window in the wall.

2 Corinthians 11:33… thuridau en sargana chalima dia teu teicheu kai ekfeugama tain cheirain autou.… basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.

Revelation 21:18kai tas endōmēsias teu teicheu autau iaspias, kai tas polas chrusiem …The wall was made of jasper, and the …

Revelation 21:19“wall”tois themeliois teu teicheu tau polau panto litho timio kosmorēntois; …The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation …

teicheim“walls”subject or objectdirect plural1×

Hebrews 11:30pistia teim teicheim Ierichō piptala kukliranteim epi hepta hēmerain.By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people …

teichem3×

Revelation 21:12echarōntas teichem megem kai hupsēlem, echarōntas pulōnoin dōdeka, …… city had a great and high wall with twelve gates inscribed with the …

Revelation 21:15“wall”… kai toin pulōnoin autau kai tem teichem autau.… city and its gates and walls.

Revelation 21:17kai metrata tem teichem autau hekaton tesserakonta tessares pēchoiu, metrem …And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human …