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
λεῖμμα (leîmma): Remnant of believers chosen by God's grace, emphasizing survival through divine election rather than human merit.
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λεῖμμαG3005
Pronunciationleîmma
What does λεῖμμα (leîmma) mean in the Bible?
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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 Ita remnant1×Romans 11:5
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First aligned rowRomans 11:5
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Romans1
Source forms
λεῖμμα*1xleimmaRomans 11:5
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular1xRomans 11:5
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Remnant of believers chosen by God's grace, emphasizing survival through divine election rather than human merit.
Strong'sG3005
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Study linkRomans 11:1-10Source Gloss
a remainder
Extended definitionSource: 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 corpusGreek 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 11:5Noun Nominative Singular Neuter
λεῖμμαleimma
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 patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternNominative (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · NeuterRom 11:51×
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