Greek noun (neuter) · G4556
σάρδιος
sardiossar'-dee-os
gem
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sárdios
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4556is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4556
sardian (3037 being implied), i.e. (as noun) the gem so called
The King James renders it: sardius.
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
sardios is rendered "gem". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Revelation 4:3The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.
Revelation 4:3σαρδίῳ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- sardius2
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
- σάρδιον1
- σαρδίῳ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular1N-DSN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1N-NSN
Revelation
two uses
The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.
- σαρδίῳsardionoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: sardius
the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.
- σάρδιονsardionnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: sardius
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.