Greek verb · G3145
μασσάομαι
massaomaimas-sah'-om-ahee
to gnaw
1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: massáomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3145is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3145
to chew
The King James renders it: gnaw.
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
massaomai is rendered "to gnaw". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Revelation 16:10And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness, and men began to gnaw their tongues in anguish
The first use
And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness, and men began to gnaw their tongues in anguish
Revelation 16:10ἐμασῶντο
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- they were gnawing1
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 1, 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
- ἐμασῶντο1
The grammar of each form
- verb · imperfect middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-INI-3P
Revelation
one use
And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness, and men began to gnaw their tongues in anguish
- ἐμασῶντοemasontoverb · imperfect middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were gnawing
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.