βίαιος
bíaios · G972 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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violent, forcible
Pertaining to the use of violent or strong force
ExamplesActs 2:2 And suddenly a noise like a violent rushing wind came from heaven, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
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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Contrasting words 1 word
- πραΰς praÿs · G4239 · mild, gentle, meek
- πρᾶος (gentle, meek) stands in direct lexical opposition to βίαιος (violent); where βίαιος describes forceful, violent character, πρᾶος describes gentle, mild, non-violent disposition.
In the other Testament 2 words
- חָמָס châmâç · H2555 · violence, goods obtained by aggression
- Primary Hebrew term for violence and violent deeds; the noun חָמָס corresponds semantically to the Greek adjective βίαιος describing violent character or action.
- עָרִיץ ʻârîyts · H6184 · mighty, violent, ruthless
- Hebrew adjective describing violent, ruthless, or tyrannical persons; direct adjectival equivalent to βίαιος in describing violent character.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Violent, forcible20.8
- Used of a forceful natural phenomenon, as of the violent rushing wind that fills the house at Pentecost in Acts 2:2.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βιαια, βίαιον (βία), violent, forcible: Acts 2:2 (A. V. mighty). (In Greek writings from…
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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