λεπίς
lepís · G3013 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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flake, scale
A thin layer or peel, especially of skin
ExamplesActs 9:18 And immediately something like fish scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight, and he got up and was baptized;
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
- קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת qasqeseth · H7193 · scales, coat of mail
- Hebrew קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת denotes scales (as of fish or armor), while Greek λεπίς specifically refers to a flake or scale, representing the same core concept of overlapping protective coverings across both semantic domains (biological and military).
Semantic domains 1 entry
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon λεπιδος, ἡ (λέπω to strip off the rind or husk, to peel, to scale), a scale: Acts 9:18.…
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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