noun · masculine
toichos
Strong’sG5109
a wall
stem toich-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.
τοῖχος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for קִיר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5109 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtoy'-khos
a wall
Fromanother form of G5038;
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
wall of a house or enclosure, absolutely, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἅπαντ᾽ ἐρευνῶν τ. uncertain in Refs 8th c.BC+; τ. καὶ θριγκοί (of the αὐλή)Refs 8th c.BC+; wall of a temple, Refs 5th c.BC+; νόμους ἀναγράφειν εἰς τοῖχον Decrees cited in Refs 5th c.BC+; κοινοὶ τ. party-walls, Refs 2nd c.AD+; τοίχῳ προσιστάμενοι γυμνάζονται Refs 2nd c.AD+: of the side of a tent or hut, Refs 8th c.BC+
b metaphorically, τοῖχε κεκονιαμένε, as a term of abuse, NT
2 plural, sides of a ship, Refs 8th c.BC+
3 of other things, as the human body, εἰς ἀμφοτέρους τοίχους (by metaphorically from a ship) Refs 5th c.BC+; of a cup, Refs 5th c.BC+; of a vessel, Refs 4th c.BC+; of a bath (πύελος), Refs 2nd c.AD+
4 proverbial, τοίχους τοὺς δύο ἐπαλείφειν 'to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds', Refs 2nd c.AD+ see at {δύο τοίχου; ὁ εὖ πράττων τ}. 'the snug side of the ship', 'the right side of the hedge', Refs 5th c.BC+ but used in a special sense; later ={τεῖχος}, LXX
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 | toichos | toichois |
| object accusative | toichon | toichoin |
| direct address vocative | toichor1×τοῖχε | toichoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | toichou | toichoiu |
| to, for dative | toicho | toichoi |
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
toicho 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
toichor“wall”direct addressvocative singular1×
Acts 23:3… legata; Tuptarō sin mellatō tos theos, toichor koniorēntor; kai sis kathosō krinarōntos min …… God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit here to judge me …