What does ὑδρωπικός (hydrōpikós) mean in the Bible?
ὑδρωπικός (hydrōpikós): Medical condition involving abnormal fluid accumulation, used by Luke to illustrate Jesus's compassion for the physically afflicted.
Greek · G5203
ὑδρωπικός
ὑδρωπικός (hydrōpikós): Medical condition involving abnormal fluid accumulation, used by Luke to illustrate Jesus's compassion for the physically afflicted.
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ὑδρωπικόςG5203
Pronunciationhydrōpikós
What does ὑδρωπικός (hydrōpikós) mean in the Bible?
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How does the BSB render G5203?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include with dropsy (1).
Where does ὑδρωπικός (hydrōpikós) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 14:2. Its strongest book concentrations include 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 Itwith dropsy1×Luke 14:2
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First aligned rowLuke 14:2
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Luke1
Source forms
ὑδρωπικὸς1xhydrōpikosLuke 14:2
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular1xLuke 14:2
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Medical condition involving abnormal fluid accumulation, used by Luke to illustrate Jesus's compassion for the physically afflicted.
Strong'sG5203
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
to be "dropsical"
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Medical condition involving abnormal fluid accumulation, used by Luke to illustrate Jesus's compassion for the physically afflicted.
(ὕδρωψ, dropsy), dropsical, suffering from dropsy: Luk.14:2.
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.
Luke 14:2Adjective Nominative Singular Masculine
ὑδρωπικὸςudrwpikov
afflicted with dropsy
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 · MasculineLuke 14:21×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
Witnesses
Luke 14:1–6ὑδρωπικόςhydrōpikós
Suffering from dropsy
Word Origins
ὑδρωπικός is built from these roots: