noun · feminine
teleutas
Strong’sG5054
end of life, death
stem teleut-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.
τελευτή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< τελέω), [in LXX chiefly for מָוֶת, מוּת;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5054 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtel-yoo-tay'
decease
Fromfrom G5053;
King Jamesdeath.
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
(τελέω) completion, accomplishment, τελευτὴν ποιῆσαι [γάμου] accomplish, Refs 8th c.BC+; τ. νόστουRefs 8th c.BC+
2 event, issue, δεῖξεν πᾶσαν τ. πράγματος Refs 6th c.BC+; γάμου πικραὶ τ. Refs 5th c.BC+
3 termination, end, οὐδέ τις ἦν ἔριδος λύσις οὐδὲ τ. Refs 8th c.BC+
4 especially βιότοιο τ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.104, 16.787; βίου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.30, 31, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.24; τ. τοῦ βίου τελεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 79; ἐπὶ τελευτῇ τοῦ βίου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 516a.
4.b frequently without βίου, the end of life, death, Refs 5th c.BC+; τελευτῆς λαχεῖν, τυχεῖν, Refs 5th c.BC+; periphrastic, θανάτοιο τ. the end that is death, Refs 8th c.BC+
5 with Preps., in adverb sense, ἐς τελευτήν at the end, at last, Refs 8th c.BC+
II end, extremity of anything, as of limbs, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 end, close of a sentence, Refs 4th c.BC+; of a play, Refs 4th c.BC+; of a word, Refs 1st 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 | teleutas | teleutais |
| object accusative | teleutan | teleutain |
| direct address vocative | teleutar | teleutair |
| of, belonging to genitive | teleutau1×τελευτῆς | teleutaiu |
| to, for dative | teleuta | teleutai |
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
teleuta 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
teleutau“death”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Matthew 2:15kai ate ekei heōs tau teleutau Hērōdou; hina plēriteia tem legirantem hupo …where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the …