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ἑρμηνεία

hermēneía · G2058 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. translating, interpreting, interpretation

    Capacity or ability to interpret or translate

    Examples

    1 Corinthians 12:10 and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.

    1 Corinthians 14:26 What is the outcome then, brothers and sisters? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. All things are to be done for edification.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
Translating, interpreting, interpretation33.147
In 1 Corinthians 12:10, among the Spirit's gifts is “the interpretation of tongues,” naming the ability itself rather than the act of translating.
Word family 7 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Ἑρμῆς Hermēs · G2060 · Hermes, the name of the messenger of the Greek deities; also of a Christian · 2×μεθερμηνεύω methermēneúō · G3177 · to translate, to interpret · 8×διερμηνεύω diermēneúō · G1329 · to translate, to interpret, to explain · 6×ἑρμηνεύω hermēneúō · G2059 · to translate, to interpret · 3×ἑρμηνείαhermēneía · G2058διερμηνευτής diermēneutḗs · G1328 · interpreter, translator · 1×Ἑρμογένης Hermogénēs · G2061 · born of Hermes; Hermogenes, an apostate Christian · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (WH ἑρμηνια; see Iota), ἑρμηνειας, ἡ (ἑρμηνεύω), interpretation (of what has been spoken…
(WH ἑρμηνια; see Iota), ἑρμηνειας, ἡ (ἑρμηνεύω), interpretation (of what has been spoken more or less obscurely by others): 1 Cor 12:10 (L text διερμ. which see); 1 Cor 14:26. (From Plato down.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Interpret, Mean, Explain2 occurrences

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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