Greek verb · G3557
νοσφίζομαι
nosphizomainos-fid'-zom-ahee
in Hom., as depon., to turn away (from), abandon.; After Hom., in act., to set apart, remove. Mid.
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nosphízomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3557is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3557
to sequestrate for oneself, i.e. embezzle
The King James renders it: keep back, purloin.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nosphizomai is rendered "in Hom., as depon., to turn away (from), abandon.; After Hom., in act., to set apart, remove. Mid.". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "in Hom., as depon., to turn away (from), abandon.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 5:2With his wife’s full knowledge, he kept back some of the proceeds for himself, but brought a portion and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
With his wife’s full knowledge, he kept back some of the proceeds for himself, but brought a portion and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
Acts 5:2ἐνοσφίσατο
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: in Hom., as depon., to turn away (from), abandon., and After Hom., in act., to set apart, remove. Mid..
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| in Hom., as depon., to turn away (from), abandon. | Tagged as
| WhereActs 5:2With his wife’s full knowledge, he kept back some of the proceeds for himself… |
| After Hom., in act., to set apart, remove. Mid.to set apart for oneself, peculate, purloin | Tagged as
| WhereActs 5:2With his wife’s full knowledge, he kept back some of the proceeds for himself… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐνοσφίσατο1
- νοσφιζομένους1
- νοσφίσασθαι1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AMI-3S
- verb · aorist middle, infinitive (“to…”)1V-AMN
- verb · present middle, participle · accusative (object) · masculine plural1V-PMP-APM
Acts
two uses
With his wife’s full knowledge, he kept back some of the proceeds for himself, but brought a portion and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
- ἐνοσφίσατοenosphisatoverb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he kept back
Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?
- νοσφίσασθαιnosphisasthaiverb · aorist middle, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to keep back
Titus
one use
not stealing from them, but showing all good faith, so that in every respect they will adorn the teaching about God our Savior.
- νοσφιζομένουςnosphizomenousverb · present middle, participle · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: pilfering
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.