ἐλεφάντινος
elephántinos · G1661 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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consisting of ivory, made of ivory
(Derivative of ἐλέφας ‘elephant,’ not occurring in the NT) Pertaining to consisting of the tusks of elephants
ExamplesRevelation 18:12 cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; every kind of citron wood, every article of ivory, and every article made from very valuable wood, bronze, iron, and marble;
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- שֵׁן shên · H8127 · tooth, prong
- Hebrew שֵׁן (shên, H8127) denotes ivory as a material (among its broader range including tooth, crag), while Greek ἐλεφάντινος (elephántinos, G1661) specifically means 'made of ivory' or 'elephantine'; the LXX uses the Greek adjective to render the Hebrew noun in material-composition contexts (e.g. ivory thrones, ivory-inlaid objects).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Consisting of ivory, made of ivory2.44
- Used in Revelation 18:12, in the list of Babylon's luxury cargo, among the articles of ivory that merchants will no longer be able to sell once she falls.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐλεφαντινη, ἐλεφάντινον (ἐλέφας), of ivory: Rev 18:12. (Alcaeus Mytilenaeus,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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