Greek noun (neuter) · G1915
ἐπίβλημα
epiblemaep-ib'-lay-mah
that which is thrown over, a cover.; a tapestry, hanging (Is, l.with).; that which is put on
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: epíblēma
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1915is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1915
a patch
The King James renders it: piece.
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
epiblema is rendered "that which is thrown over, a cover.; a tapestry, hanging (Is, l.with).; that which is put on". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "that which is thrown over, a cover.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 9:16No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.
The first use
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.
Matthew 9:16ἐπίβλημα
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 three senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: that which is thrown over, a cover., and a tapestry, hanging (Is, l.with)., and that which is put on.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| that which is thrown over, a cover. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereMatthew 9:16No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment… |
| a tapestry, hanging (Is, l.with). | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| that which is put on__(a) embroidery | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 9:16No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment… |
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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling 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
- ἐπίβλημα4
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular3N-ASN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1N-NSN
Matthew
one use
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.
- ἐπίβλημαepiblemanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a patch
Mark
one use
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, and a worse tear will result.
- ἐπίβλημαepiblemanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a patch
Luke
two uses
He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will tear the new garment as well, and the patch from the new will not match the old.
- ἐπίβλημαepiblemanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a piece
- ἐπίβλημαepiblemanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: piece
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.