noun · masculine
therapontos
Strong’sG2324
a servant, attendant
stem therapont-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.
θεράπων, -οντος, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for עֶבֶד;]
SYN.: v.s. διάκονος.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2324 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidther-ap'-ohn
a menial attendant (as if cherishing)
Fromapparently a participle from an otherwise obsolete derivative of the base of G2330;
King Jamesservant.
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
dative plural θεραπόντεσσι Refs 5th c.BC+; Aeolic dialect θεράπων Refs 7th c.BC+:—henchman, attendant, Refs 8th c.BC+; companion in arms, squire, Refs, etc.; ἡνίοχος θ. Refs 8th c.BC+; Ἔρως Ἀφροδίτης θ. Refs 7th c.BC+; worshipper, Ἀπόλλωνος Refs 5th c.BC+ devoted to the service of its guests, Refs 5th c.BC+; λωτὸς.. Μουσᾶν θ. Refs 5th c.BC+: with genitive, attending upon, τῶν ἀδίκως δυστυχούντων Refs 5th c.BC+
II servant, Refs 5th c.BC+; at Chios, slave, 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.
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 | therapontos1×θεράπων | therapontois |
| object accusative | theraponton | therapontoin |
| direct address vocative | therapontor | therapontoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | therapontou | therapontoiu |
| to, for dative | theraponto | therapontoi |
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
theraponto 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
therapontos“servant”subjectnominative singular1×
Hebrews 3:5… en holo to oiko autou hōs therapontos eis marturiem teiu lalirinteiu,Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to …