What does νίκη (níkē) mean in the Bible?
νίκη (níkē): Victory as the triumphant overcoming of obstacles or opposition, particularly spiritual victory in faith.
Greek · G3529
νίκη
Victory
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νίκη G3529
Pronunciation níkē
What does νίκη (níkē) mean in the Bible?
νίκη (níkē): Victory as the triumphant overcoming of obstacles or opposition, particularly spiritual victory in faith.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G3529?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include victory (1).
Where does νίκη (níkē) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at 1 John 5:4. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 John (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 victory 1× 1 John 5:4
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First aligned row 1 John 5:4
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
1 John 1
Source forms
νίκη 1x nikē 1 John 5:4
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular 1x 1 John 5:4
Evidence Summary
FaithMessiah
Greek word. Victory as the triumphant overcoming of obstacles or opposition, particularly spiritual victory in faith.
Strong's G3529
Lexical occurrences 1 verse Greek text appearances 1 time Word forms 1 form 1 reference Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
victory
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Victory as the triumphant overcoming of obstacles or opposition, particularly spiritual victory in faith.
victory: 1Jn.5:4.
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.
1 John 5:4 Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
νίκη nikh
victory
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 · Feminine 1 John 5:4 1×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
Witnesses
1-john Victory níkē
conquest or overcoming
Word Origins
νίκη is a primary word - no further derivation.
Why This Word Matters
Describes the believer’s triumph over the world through faith in Christ.
Canonical Themes
Faith Messiah
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