thēluas

Strong’sG2338

female

stem thēlu-5 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 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.

θῆλυς, -εια, -υ,

[in LXX chiefly for נְקֵבָה;]

female: as subst., ἡ θ., a female, a woman: Ro 1:26, 27; τὸ θ., Mt 19:4, Mk 10:6, Ga 3:28.†

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

Strong’s G2338 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidthay'-loos

female

Fromfrom the same as G2337;

King Jamesfemale, woman.

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

θῆλυς, θήλεια, θῆλυ:
Epic dialect feminine θήλεα, accusative plural -εαςRefs 8th c.BC+; accusative feminine θηλείην uncertain reading in Refs 8th c.BC+; in late Prose θηλύτερος, -ύτατος occur as comparative and superlative (see. below 11): (θη- 'suckle', compare θῆσαι):—female, θήλεια θεός a goddess, Refs 8th c.BC+; Ἥρη θῆλυς ἐοῦσα being female,Refs 5th c.BC+; θήλειαι ἵπποι mares, Refs 8th c.BC+; ὄϊς θῆλυς a ewe, Refs 8th c.BC+; θήλεια ἔλαφος a hind, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ θ. ἵπποςRefs 5th c.BC+; ζῷα θ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄπαις θήλεος γόνου without female issue, Refs 5th c.BC+ the she-mule, Refs 5th c.BC+
b ἡ θήλεα, Attic dialect -εια, the female, Refs 5th c.BC+
c τὸ θ. γένος the female sex, woman-kind, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ θ. alone, Refs; opposed to τὸ ἄρρεν, Refs 5th c.BC+
d of plants and trees, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 of or belonging to women, κουράων θῆλυς ἀϋτή Refs 8th c.BC+; θήλεα νοῦσος among the Scythians (compare Ἐνάρεες), Refs 5th c.BC+; θ. φόνος murder by women, Refs 5th c.BC+
II metaphorically, of persons and things,
II.1 soft, gentle, θῆλυς ἐέρση Refs 8th c.BC+; θ. νύξ (={ὕπομβρος}) Refs 5th c.BC+
II.1.b ὕδωρ θ. καὶ μαλακόν Refs 4th c.BC+; θηλύτατον πεδίον most fruitful, Refs 3rd c.BC+; θηλύτατον ὕδωρ of the Nile, Refs
II.2 tender, delicate, Φοίβου θήλειαι.. παρειαί Refs; θῆλυς ἀπὸ χροιῆς delicate of skin, Refs 3rd c.BC+; of temper or character, soft, yielding, weak, θῆλυς ηὕρημαι τάλας Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ θῆλυ τῆς ψυχῆς effeminacy, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 in mechanics, those parts were called female into which others fitted, as the female vertebra, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.4 Grammars, feminine, θήλεα [ὀνόματα] Refs 5th c.BC+
II.5 Refs 4th c.BC+, of even numbers, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.6 Astrology texts, of planets, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III θήλειαι, αἱ, kind of cheese made in Crete, 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.

female3×women2×

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	thēluos	thēluas	thēluem3×θῆλυ	thēluois	thēluais1×θήλειαι	thēlueim
object accusative	thēluon	thēluan		thēluoin	thēluain
direct address vocative	thēluor	thēluar		thēluoir	thēluair
of, belonging to genitive	thēluou	thēluau1×θηλείας	thēlueu	thēluoiu	thēluaiu	thēlueiu
to, for dative	thēluo	thēlua	thēlue	thēluoi	thēluai	thēluei

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

thēlustem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

thēlu 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.

5 occurrences, every one of them listed

thēluau“women”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Romans 1:27… arsenois afiēkarantois tan fusikan chrēsian tau thēluau ekkaiila en ta orexia autoiu eis …… the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one …

thēluem“female”subject or objectdirect singular3×

Matthew 19:4… tos ktizarantos apo archau arsenem kai thēluem poiata autoin… the Creator ‘made them male and female,’

Mark 10:6apo de archau ktisiau arsenem kai thēluem poiata autoin;… creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

Galatians 3:28… oude eleutheros, ouk eniatō arsenem kai thēluem; pantois gar vis henos avō en …… Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in …

thēluais“women”subjectnominative plural1×

Romans 1:26… eis patheim atimiau; tais tē gar thēluais autoiu metallaxala tan fusikan chrēsian eis …… over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.