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Greek noun (masculine) · G136

αἶνος

ainosah'-ee-nos

= μῦθος; = Att. ἔπαινος; In π.

2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: aînos

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G136is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 2
    spellings
  • 3
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G136

properly, a story, but used in the sense of ; praise (of God)

The King James renders it: praise.

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

ainos is rendered "= μῦθος; = Att. ἔπαινος; In π.". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.

  • One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "= μῦθος".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 21:16“Do You hear what these children are saying?” they asked. “Yes,” Jesus answered. “Have you never read: ‘From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise’?”
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

“Do You hear what these children are saying?” they asked. “Yes,” Jesus answered. “Have you never read: ‘From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise’?”

Matthew 21:16αἶνον;¶

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

One of the word's two uses is in Matthew.

The other 25 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The lexicons give this word three senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: = μῦθος, and = Att. ἔπαινος, and In π..

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
= μῦθοςa tale (Horn.Tagged aslisted under the tableWhereMatthew 21:16“Do You hear what these children are saying?” they asked. “Yes,” Jesus answered…
= Att. ἔπαινοςpraise (Horn.Tagged as
  • praise1
  • praise’1
WhereMatthew 21:16“Do You hear what these children are saying?” they asked. “Yes,” Jesus answered…
In π.a decree (MM, VGT, see word). † (AS)Tagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

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 2, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

2 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

  • αἶνον1
  • αἶνον;¶1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular2N-ASM

Matthew

one use
  • “Do You hear what these children are saying?” they asked. “Yes,” Jesus answered. “Have you never read: ‘From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise’?”

    Matthew 21:16

    • αἶνον;¶ainonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: praise’

Luke

one use
  • Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus, glorifying God. And all the people who saw this gave praise to God.

    Luke 18:43

    • αἶνονainonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: praise

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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