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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νίκηG3529
Pronunciationníkē
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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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 Itvictory1×1 John 5:4
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A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row1 John 5:4
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
1 John1
Source forms
νίκη1xnikē1 John 5:4
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular1x1 John 5:4
Evidence Summary
FaithMessiah
Greek word. Victory as the triumphant overcoming of obstacles or opposition, particularly spiritual victory in faith.
Strong'sG3529
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
victory
Extended definitionSource: 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 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.
1 John 5:4Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
νίκηnikh
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 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 · Feminine1 John 5:41×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
Witnesses
1-johnVictoryníkē
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
FaithMessiah