Strong G4111πλάσσω
to mold
- Transliteration
- plassō
- Pronunciation
- plas'-so
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
A primary verb; to mould that is shape or fabricate: - form.
Detailed definition
πλάσσω
[in LXX chiefly for יָצַר;]
to form, mould: Rom.9:26 (LXX), 1Ti.2:13.†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for יָצַר;]
to form, mould: Rom.9:26 (LXX), 1Ti.2:13.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4111 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- form2
- be1
First verses
- Romans 9:20Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
- 1 Timothy 2:13For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
πλάσσω,
Attic dialect πλάττω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 148 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 420c, etc.:)]future πλάσω (ἀνα-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Mochl.” 2)]:aorist ἔπλᾰσα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.70 (κατ-), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 926, etc.; poetry ἔπλασσα 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 24.109)]; Epic dialect πλάσσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 70)]: perfect πέπλᾰκα [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.85K., 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 15.11, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Thucydide” 41)]: 3rd.pers. singular pluperfect ἐπεπλάκει [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Erotianus Grammaticus “Praef.”)]: —middle, future πλάσομαι [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 1.37)]: aorist ἐπλασάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.58, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 800b, etc.)]:—passive, future πλασθήσομαι [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.82 K., (δια-) 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 4.619)]: aorist ἐπλάσθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1130, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.48, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 26e)]: perfect πέπλασμαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1030, etc.)]:—form, mould, properly of the artist who works in soft substances, such as earth, clay, wax, ἐκ γαίης π. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 70, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.47, 73)]; of Prometheus, ὃν λέγουσ᾽ ἡμᾶς πλάσαι καὶ τἄλλα.. ζῷα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 89.1, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 535.5; π. καθάπερ ἐκ κηροῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 746a; σχήματα ἐκ χρυσοῦ [prev. author] “Ti.” 50a; ἐκ πηλοῦ ζῷον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 654b29; ἀγγεῖον π. κήρινον [prev. author] “Mete.” 359a1; οὐκ ἔστιν ἀνδριαντοποιὸς ὅστις ἂν πλάσαι κάλλος τοιοῦτον 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 72.2; τοὺς πηλίνους 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.26)]; opposed to γράφειν, as sculpture to painting, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 510e)] (so in passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Lg.” 668e, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.75))]; τὴν ὑδριαν πλάσαι mould the water-jar, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 926; σώματα π. θνητά 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 42d)]; π. κηρία, of bees, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 623b32)]; ἔπλαττεν ἔνδον οἰκίας made clay houses, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 879)]; knead bread, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.313:)] —middle, σχῆμα πλασάμενος having formed oneself a figure, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 297e)]:— passive, to be moulded, made, τὸ δὲ ἐν τῇσι μήτρῃσι πλάσσεται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.108; οἶκος τεκτόνων πλασθεὶς ὕπο 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1130; ἂν ἴδωσι.. κήρινα μιμήματα πεπλασμένα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 933b.)]
2 plaster, τὸν.. ναὸν χρίσαντες καὶ πλάσαντες [Refs (“BCH” 15.209 (from Panamara).)]
II generally, mould, form by education, training, etc., π. τὰς ψυχὰς τοῖς μύθοις, τὰ σώματα ταῖς χερσίν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 377c; σῶμα ἐπιμελῶς [prev. author] “Ti.” 88c; ἑαυτόν [prev. author] “R.” 500d)]; παιδεύειν τε καὶ π. [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 671c)]:—passive, τοὔνομ᾽ ἀνὰ χρόνον πεπλασμένον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 830)]; of the voice, to be trained, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 536b19.)]
III form an image of a thing in the mind, imagine, πλάττομεν οὔτε ἰδόντες οὔτε.. νοήσαντες ἀθάνατόν τι ζῷον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 246c, compare “R.” 420c, 466a; τῷ λόγῳ τοὺς νόμους [prev. author] “Lg.” 712b; τἀρχαῖα 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.85K.:)] —passive [Refs (, [prev. work]p.82 K.)]
IV put in a certain form, τὸ στόμα π. (so as to pronounce more elegantly) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 414d)]; [κόμιον] [Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.24.24; τὴν ὑπόκρισιν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demosthenes” 7:)] —middle, ἀδήλως τῇ ὄψει πλυσάμενος πρὸς τὴν ξυμφοράν having formed himself in face, i.e. composed his countenance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.58, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 45.68.)]
V metaphorically, fabricate, forge, λόγους ψιθύρους πλάσσων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 148 (_anapaest meter_); ψευδεῖς π. αἰτίας 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.25; προφάσεις 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.28)]; τί λόγους πλάττει; [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 18.121, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 17c; μὴ πλάσῃς κακόν 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 145; π. ἐπιστολήν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.42.7: _absolutely_, δόξω πλάσας λέγειν)] I shall be thought to speak from invention, i.e. not the truth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.80, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.6.37)]:—middle, πλάσασθαι τὸν τρόπον τὸν αὑτοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.60; ψεύδη 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.26; τῆς φιλανθρωπίας ἣν.. ἐπλάττετο 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.231)]; προφάσεις π. [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 19.215; τοιαῦτα πλάττεσθαι τολμᾶτε [prev. author] 28.9; καιρὸν πλάττεσθαι [prev. author] 21.187: _absolutely_, πλαττομένους πρὸς ἑαυτούς (αὐτούς Bonitz) 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1381b28: with)]infinitive, Νέρων εἶναι πλασάμενος pretending to be N., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 64.9; π. νοσεῖν 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.1:)] —passive, οὐ πεπλασμένος ὁ κόμπος not fictitious, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1030)]; πεπλάσθαι φάσκοντες saying it was a forgery, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 7.2; μὴ πλασθέντα μῦθον ἀλλ᾽ ἀληθινὸν λόγον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 26e; π. ὑπὸ ποιητῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.23; ἐξ ὧν ἡ δίκη αὕτη πέπλασται 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 52.12. (πλαθ-yω, compare κορο-πλάθος, πηλο-πλάθος.))]
Attic dialect πλάττω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 148 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 420c, etc.:)]future πλάσω (ἀνα-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Mochl.” 2)]:aorist ἔπλᾰσα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.70 (κατ-), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 926, etc.; poetry ἔπλασσα 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 24.109)]; Epic dialect πλάσσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 70)]: perfect πέπλᾰκα [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.85K., 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 15.11, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Thucydide” 41)]: 3rd.pers. singular pluperfect ἐπεπλάκει [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Erotianus Grammaticus “Praef.”)]: —middle, future πλάσομαι [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 1.37)]: aorist ἐπλασάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.58, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 800b, etc.)]:—passive, future πλασθήσομαι [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.82 K., (δια-) 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 4.619)]: aorist ἐπλάσθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1130, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.48, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 26e)]: perfect πέπλασμαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1030, etc.)]:—form, mould, properly of the artist who works in soft substances, such as earth, clay, wax, ἐκ γαίης π. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 70, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.47, 73)]; of Prometheus, ὃν λέγουσ᾽ ἡμᾶς πλάσαι καὶ τἄλλα.. ζῷα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 89.1, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 535.5; π. καθάπερ ἐκ κηροῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 746a; σχήματα ἐκ χρυσοῦ [prev. author] “Ti.” 50a; ἐκ πηλοῦ ζῷον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 654b29; ἀγγεῖον π. κήρινον [prev. author] “Mete.” 359a1; οὐκ ἔστιν ἀνδριαντοποιὸς ὅστις ἂν πλάσαι κάλλος τοιοῦτον 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 72.2; τοὺς πηλίνους 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.26)]; opposed to γράφειν, as sculpture to painting, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 510e)] (so in passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Lg.” 668e, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.75))]; τὴν ὑδριαν πλάσαι mould the water-jar, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 926; σώματα π. θνητά 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 42d)]; π. κηρία, of bees, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 623b32)]; ἔπλαττεν ἔνδον οἰκίας made clay houses, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 879)]; knead bread, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.313:)] —middle, σχῆμα πλασάμενος having formed oneself a figure, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 297e)]:— passive, to be moulded, made, τὸ δὲ ἐν τῇσι μήτρῃσι πλάσσεται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.108; οἶκος τεκτόνων πλασθεὶς ὕπο 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1130; ἂν ἴδωσι.. κήρινα μιμήματα πεπλασμένα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 933b.)]
2 plaster, τὸν.. ναὸν χρίσαντες καὶ πλάσαντες [Refs (“BCH” 15.209 (from Panamara).)]
II generally, mould, form by education, training, etc., π. τὰς ψυχὰς τοῖς μύθοις, τὰ σώματα ταῖς χερσίν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 377c; σῶμα ἐπιμελῶς [prev. author] “Ti.” 88c; ἑαυτόν [prev. author] “R.” 500d)]; παιδεύειν τε καὶ π. [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 671c)]:—passive, τοὔνομ᾽ ἀνὰ χρόνον πεπλασμένον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 830)]; of the voice, to be trained, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 536b19.)]
III form an image of a thing in the mind, imagine, πλάττομεν οὔτε ἰδόντες οὔτε.. νοήσαντες ἀθάνατόν τι ζῷον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 246c, compare “R.” 420c, 466a; τῷ λόγῳ τοὺς νόμους [prev. author] “Lg.” 712b; τἀρχαῖα 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.85K.:)] —passive [Refs (, [prev. work]p.82 K.)]
IV put in a certain form, τὸ στόμα π. (so as to pronounce more elegantly) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 414d)]; [κόμιον] [Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.24.24; τὴν ὑπόκρισιν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demosthenes” 7:)] —middle, ἀδήλως τῇ ὄψει πλυσάμενος πρὸς τὴν ξυμφοράν having formed himself in face, i.e. composed his countenance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.58, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 45.68.)]
V metaphorically, fabricate, forge, λόγους ψιθύρους πλάσσων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 148 (_anapaest meter_); ψευδεῖς π. αἰτίας 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.25; προφάσεις 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.28)]; τί λόγους πλάττει; [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 18.121, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 17c; μὴ πλάσῃς κακόν 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 145; π. ἐπιστολήν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.42.7: _absolutely_, δόξω πλάσας λέγειν)] I shall be thought to speak from invention, i.e. not the truth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.80, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.6.37)]:—middle, πλάσασθαι τὸν τρόπον τὸν αὑτοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.60; ψεύδη 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.26; τῆς φιλανθρωπίας ἣν.. ἐπλάττετο 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.231)]; προφάσεις π. [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 19.215; τοιαῦτα πλάττεσθαι τολμᾶτε [prev. author] 28.9; καιρὸν πλάττεσθαι [prev. author] 21.187: _absolutely_, πλαττομένους πρὸς ἑαυτούς (αὐτούς Bonitz) 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1381b28: with)]infinitive, Νέρων εἶναι πλασάμενος pretending to be N., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 64.9; π. νοσεῖν 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.1:)] —passive, οὐ πεπλασμένος ὁ κόμπος not fictitious, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1030)]; πεπλάσθαι φάσκοντες saying it was a forgery, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 7.2; μὴ πλασθέντα μῦθον ἀλλ᾽ ἀληθινὸν λόγον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 26e; π. ὑπὸ ποιητῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.23; ἐξ ὧν ἡ δίκη αὕτη πέπλασται 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 52.12. (πλαθ-yω, compare κορο-πλάθος, πηλο-πλάθος.))]