noun · neuter
themeliem
Strong’sG2310
belonging to the foundation
stem themeli-once in the New Testament0 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.
θεμέλιος, -ον
(< τίθημι), [in LXX for אַרְמוֹן, מוֹסָד, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2310 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidthem-el'-ee-os
something put down, i.e. a substruction (of a building, etc.), (literally or figuratively)
Fromfrom a derivative of G5087;
King Jamesfoundation.
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
of or for the foundation, λίθοι Refs 5th c.BC+, ὁ, foundation-stone, Refs 4th c.BC+; οἱ θ. ἐκ παντοίων λίθων ὑπόκεινται the foundations, Refs 5th c.BC+: also neuter θεμέλιον Refs 4th c.BC+, of the foundations of the world, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐκ τῶν θ. from the foundations, Refs 5th c.BC+: metaphorically, ἐκθ. ἐσφαλμένοι Refs 2nd c.BC+; also ἀνεκτίσθη τὸ τεῖχος ἐκ θεμελείων (sic) Refs 4th c.AD+
II θεμέλια, τά, buildingsites, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III substantive, the fourth τόπος,= ἀντιμεσουράνημα, Herm.Trism. in Refs
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 or object direct | themeliem | themelieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | themelieu | themelieiu |
| to, for dative | themelie | themeliei |
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
themelie 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
themelieim1×
Acts 16:26… seismos geneta megos hōste saleuira teim themelieim teu desmōtērieu, anoigila de parachrēma tais …Suddenly a strong earthquake shook the foundations of the prison. At once all …