Greek noun (masculine) · G4436
Πύθων
Pythonpoo'-thone
in cl., Python, a serpent slain by Apollo, who is hence surnamed the Pythian.; In Plut. (ii, 414 E), a name given to ventriloquist soothsayers (ἐγγαστρίμυθοι;
1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Pýthōn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4436is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4436
a Python, i.e. (by analogy, with the supposed diviner there) inspiration (soothsaying)
The King James renders it: divination.
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
Python is rendered "in cl., Python, a serpent slain by Apollo, who is hence surnamed the Pythian.; In Plut. (ii, 414 E), a name given to ventriloquist soothsayers (ἐγγαστρίμυθοι;". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "in cl., Python, a serpent slain by Apollo, who is hence surnamed the Pythian.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 16:16One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl with a spirit of divination, who earned a large income for her masters by fortune-telling.
The first use
One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl with a spirit of divination, who earned a large income for her masters by fortune-telling.
Acts 16:16πύθωνα
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
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: in cl., Python, a serpent slain by Apollo, who is hence surnamed the Pythian., and In Plut. (ii, 414 E), a name given to ventriloquist soothsayers (ἐγγαστρίμυθοι;.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| in cl., Python, a serpent slain by Apollo, who is hence surnamed the Pythian. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereActs 16:16One day as we were going to the place of prayer… |
| In Plut. (ii, 414 E), a name given to ventriloquist soothsayers (ἐγγαστρίμυθοι; | Tagged as
| WhereLeviticus 19:31You must not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out… |
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
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How it is spelled
- πύθωνα1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular1N-ASM
Acts
one use
One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl with a spirit of divination, who earned a large income for her masters by fortune-telling.
- πύθωναputhonanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: Python
Where it leads
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How the numbers are counted
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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.