What does πανοπλία (panoplía) mean in the Bible?
πανοπλία (panoplía): Complete defensive armor for spiritual warfare; Paul's metaphor for God's protective equipment against evil.
Greek · G3833
πανοπλία
Full armor ("panoply")
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πανοπλία G3833
Pronunciation panoplía
What does πανοπλία (panoplía) mean in the Bible?
πανοπλία (panoplía): Complete defensive armor for spiritual warfare; Paul's metaphor for God's protective equipment against evil.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G3833?
The BSB source-word alignment has 3 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include full armor (2), armor (1).
Where does πανοπλία (panoplía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 11:22. Its strongest book concentrations include Ephesians (2), Luke (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 full armor 2× Ephesians 6:11, Ephesians 6:13
armor 1× Luke 11:22
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Luke 11:22
Aligned rows 3
Books represented 2
Luke 1 Ephesians 2
Source forms
πανοπλίαν 3x panoplian Luke 11:22, Ephesians 6:11, Ephesians 6:13
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 3x Luke 11:22, Ephesians 6:11, Ephesians 6:13
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Complete defensive armor for spiritual warfare; Paul's metaphor for God's protective equipment against evil.
Strong's G3833
Lexical occurrences 3 verses Greek text appearances 3 times Word forms 1 form 3 references Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Luke 11:14-28 Source Gloss
full armor ("panoply")
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Complete defensive armor for spiritual warfare; Paul's metaphor for God's protective equipment against evil.
(πᾶς, ὅπλον) [in LXX: 2Ki.2:21 (חֲלִיצָה), Job.39:20, Jdth.14:3, Wis.5:17, Sir.46:6, 1-2; 4Mac.6* ;] full armour: Luk.11:22; metaphorically (cf. Wis, l.with), τ. θεοῦ, Eph.6:11, 13
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
3 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Luke 11:22 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
πανοπλίαν panoplian
complete armor
Read verse Ephesians 6:11 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
πανοπλίαν panoplian
complete armor
Read verse Ephesians 6:13 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
πανοπλίαν panoplian
complete armor
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 3 Case pattern Accusative (3) Number pattern Singular (3)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Luke 11:22 · Eph 6:11 · Eph 6:13 3×
Selected Scripture Witnesses
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
Biblical Witnesses
Literal military equipment protecting a strong man fully armed
Metaphorical spiritual equipment of God for Christian spiritual warfare
Showing 2 selected witnesses from 3 lexical occurrence verses.
Word Origins
πανοπλία is built from these roots:
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