What does ᾠδή · καινός mean in the Bible?
ᾠδή · καινός is a Greek phrase meaning "a chant or "ode" (the general term for any words sung; while denotes especially a religious metrical composition, and still more specially, a Hebrew cantillation)".
Greek · G5603, G2537
ᾠδὴν καινὴν
Song · new (especially in freshness; while is properly so with respect to age
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ᾠδή G5603 song
Pronunciation ōidḗ
Song of praise directed toward God or Christ, never secular or merely artistic expression in NT use.
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καινός G2537 new (especially in freshness; while is properly so with respect to age
Pronunciation kainós
New in quality and freshness rather than merely recent in time; emphasizes novelty of form or character
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What does ᾠδὴν καινὴν (ōdēn kainēn) mean in the Bible?
ᾠδή · καινός is a Greek phrase meaning "a chant or "ode" (the general term for any words sung; while denotes especially a religious metrical composition, and still more specially, a Hebrew cantillation)".
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Questions this entry answers
How many biblical occurrences are listed for G5603, G2537?
G5603, G2537 is connected to 7 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Greek phrase. a chant or "ode" (the general term for any words sung; while denotes especially a religious metrical composition, and still more specially, a Hebrew cantillation)
Source Gloss
a chant or "ode" (the general term for any words sung; while denotes especially a religious metrical composition, and still more specially, a Hebrew cantillation)
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 7 Case pattern Accusative (5) Number pattern Singular (5)
Dative · Plural · Feminine Eph 5:19 · Col 3:16 2×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Rev 5:9 · Rev 14:3 · Rev 15:3 5×
Word Origins
ᾠδὴν καινὴν is built from this root:
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