What does λεῖμμα (leîmma) mean in the Bible?
λεῖμμα (leîmma): Remnant of believers chosen by God's grace, emphasizing survival through divine election rather than human merit.
Greek · G3005
λεῖμμα
A remainder
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λεῖμμα G3005
Pronunciation leîmma
What does λεῖμμα (leîmma) mean in the Bible?
λεῖμμα (leîmma): Remnant of believers chosen by God's grace, emphasizing survival through divine election rather than human merit.
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How does the BSB render G3005?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include a remnant (1).
Where does λεῖμμα (leîmma) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Romans 11:5. Its strongest book concentrations include Romans (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It a remnant 1× Romans 11:5
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First aligned row Romans 11:5
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
Romans 1
Source forms
λεῖμμα* 1x leimma Romans 11:5
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular 1x Romans 11:5
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Remnant of believers chosen by God's grace, emphasizing survival through divine election rather than human merit.
Strong's G3005
Lexical occurrences 1 verse Greek text appearances 1 time Word forms 1 form 1 reference Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Romans 11:1-10 Source Gloss
a remainder
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Remnant of believers chosen by God's grace, emphasizing survival through divine election rather than human merit.
(λείπω), [in LXX: 4Ki.19:4 A (שְׁאֵרִית)* ;] a remnant: Rom.11:5.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Romans 11:5 Noun Nominative Singular Neuter
λεῖμμα leimma
a remnant, remainder
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 1 Aligned forms 1 Case pattern Nominative (1) Number pattern Singular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Neuter Rom 11:5 1×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
New Testament Witnesses
Remnant, what remains.
Word Origins
λεῖμμα is built from this root:
Why This Word Matters
Shows that God preserves a chosen minority by grace. Romans 11:1-10
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain