noun · neuter
toxem
Strong’sG5115
a bow
stem tox-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.
τόξον, -ου, τό
[in LXX chiefly for קֶשֶׁת;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5115 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtox'-on
a bow (apparently as the simplest fabric)
Fromfrom the base of G5088;
King Jamesbow.
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
bow, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐτιταίνετο.. τόξα drew the bow, Refs 8th c.BC+; τόξον ἕλκετ᾽ (variant{εἷλκεν}) Refs 8th c.BC+; τόξον τείνειν, ἐντείνειν, Refs 8th c.BC+; τόξου ῥῦμα (i.e. the Persians, the bow being an oriental weapon), opposed to λόγχης ἰσχύς (i.e. the Greeks), Refs 4th c.BC+
2 τόξῳ by guess, Refs
3 bowmanship, archery, τόξων ἐῢ εἰδώς Refs 8th c.BC+; τόξῳ (i.e. νικῶν) Refs 2nd c.BC+
II in plural also, bow and arrows, τόξα πεπτεῶτ᾽ ἄλλυδις ἄλλα Refs 8th c.BC+; sometimes in plural for the arrows only,Refs 5th c.BC+
III metaphorically, τόξα ἡλίου its rays, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀμπελίνοις τόξοις δαμέντες, of the effects of wine, Refs 5th c.BC+; κότταβος.. ὃν σκοπὸν ἐς λατάγων τόξα καθιστάμεθα for shooting of liquor from the cup, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV rainbow, LXX+4th c.BC+
IV.2 arch, Refs
IV.3 curved support, cradle used in amputations, Refs 2nd c.AD+; part of a carriage or cart, Refs 3rd c.BC+
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 | toxem | toxeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | toxeu | toxeiu |
| to, for dative | toxe | toxei |
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
toxe 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
toxem1×
Revelation 6:2… kai tos kathorōntos epi auton echarōntos toxem, kai dōita auto stefanos, kai exerchata …… horse, and its rider held a bow. And he was given a crown …