BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
GREEK · G2163
euphēmos — commendable
εὔφημος, -ον (εὖ, φήμη), [in Sm.: Psa.63:6 ;] primarily, uttering words or sounds of good omen, hence, 1. avoiding ill-omened words, religiously silent. 2. fair-sounding, auspicious (R, mg., gracious): Php.4:8.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G20781
musaria — loathsomeness
loathsomeness
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G2568
Kaloi Limenes — Fair Havens
Καλοί Λιμένες Fair Havens, a harbour in Crete: Act.27:8.† (AS)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G9073
sthenos — strength (physical)
1. strength, might , (Iliad by Homer):—;with infinitive, σθ. πολεμίζειν strength to war, (Iliad by Homer); σθ. ὥστε καθελεῖν (Euripides); σθένει by force , (Sophocles Tragicus); λόγῳ τε καὶ σθένει both by right and might , (Sophocles Tragicus); so, ὑπὸ σθένους (Euripides); παντὶ σθένει with all one's might , (Thucydides) 2. strength, might , of all kinds moral as well as physical, σθένος τῆς ἀληθείας (Sophocles Tragicus); ἀγγέλων σθ. their might or authority , (Aeschulus Tragicus) 3. a force of men, like δύναμις, (Iliad by Homer) 4. metaphorically, like Lat. vis for copia, a quantity, profusion , (Pindar) 5. periphrastic, like βίη, ἴς, μένος, as σθένος Ἰδομενῆος, Ὠρίωνος, for Idomeneus, Orion, themselves, (Iliad by Homer) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →(Dan. 5:25, 26), numbered, one of the words of the mysterious inscription written “upon the plaister of the wall” in Belshazzar’s palace at Babylon. The writing was explained by Daniel. (See BELSHAZZAR.)
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
