σιδήρεος
sidḗreos · G4603 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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made of iron
(Derivative of σίδηρος ‘iron,’) Pertaining to being made or consisting of iron
ExamplesActs 12:10 Now when they had passed the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened for them by itself; and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.
Revelation 2:27 AND HE SHALL RULE THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON, AS THE VESSELS OF THE POTTER ARE SHATTERED, as I also have received authority from My Father;
Revelation 9:9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle.
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 2 words
- בַּרְזֶל barzel · H1270 · iron
- Hebrew noun denoting the metal iron itself versus Greek adjective denoting objects made of that metal; the pairing reflects the standard LXX rendering pattern where Hebrew concrete nouns are translated via Greek material adjectives.
- פַּרְזֶל parzel · H6523 · iron
- Greek σιδήρεος (made of iron) is the adjectival form describing objects composed of iron, while Hebrew פַּרְזֶל (iron) is the noun denoting the metal itself; the Greek adjective naturally renders contexts where the Hebrew noun appears in construct or attributive position.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Made of iron2.59
- The adjective describes something composed of iron. Luke records Peter's miraculous release: “they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened for them by itself” (Acts 12:10).
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σιδηρεα, σιδηρεον, contracted σιδηρεους, σιδηρεα, σιδηρεουν (σίδηρος), from Homer down,…
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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