1491. eidos
Strong's Concordance
eidos: visible form, shape, appearance, kind
Original Word: εἶδος, ους, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: eidos
Phonetic Spelling: (i'-dos)
Definition: appearance, fashion, shape, sight
Usage: visible form, shape, appearance, outward show, kind, species, class.
HELPS Word-studies

1491 eídos (a neuter noun derived from 1492 /eídō, "to see, apprehend") – properly, the sight (i.e. of something exposed, observable), especially its outward appearance or shape (J. Thayer). 1491 (eídos) emphasizes "what is physically seen" (BAGD) before mentally or spiritually apprehended. See 1492 (eidō, oida).

Example: 1491 /eídos ("visible appearance") refers to the outward form taken on by each of the three Persons of the tri-personal God: a) the Holy Spirit in Lk 3:22: "And the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove"; b) Jesus, in Lk 9:29: "And while He was praying, the appearance of His face became different, and His clothing became white and gleaming"; and c) the Father, in Jn 5:37: "You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form."

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1491: εἶδος

εἶδος, εἴδους, τό (ἘΙΔΩ), in the Sept. chiefly for מַרְאֶה and תֹּאַר; properly, that which strikes the eye, which is exposed to view;

1. the external oppearance, form, figure, shape, (so from Homer down): John 5:37; σωματικῷ εἴδει, Luke 3:22; τό εἶδος τοῦ προσώπου αὐτοῦ, Luke 9:29; διά εἴδους, as encompassed with the visible appearance (of eternal things) (see διά, A. I. 2), 2 Corinthians 5:7, — commonly explained, by sight i. e. beholding (Luth.:im Schauen); but no example has yet been adduced from any Greek writings in which εἶδος is used actively, like the Latin species, of vision; (στόμα κατά στόμα, ἐν εἴδει, καί οὐ δἰ ὁραμάτων καί ἐνυπνίων, Clement. homil. 17, 18; cf. Numbers 12:8 the Sept.).

2. form, kind: ἀπό παντός εἴδους πονηροῦ ἀπέχεσθε, i. e. from every kind of evil or wrong, 1 Thessalonians 5:22 (cf.πονηρός, under the end); (Josephus, Antiquities 10, 3, 1 πᾶν εἶδος πονηρίας. The Greeks, especially Plato, oppose τό εἶδος to τό γένος, as the Latin does species to genus. Cf. Schmidt, chapter 182, 2).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
appearance, fashion, shape, sight.

From eido; a view, i.e. Form (literally or figuratively) -- appearance, fashion, shape, sight.

see GREEK eido

Forms and Transliterations
ειδει είδει εἴδει είδεσι είδη είδον ειδος ειδός είδος εἶδος ειδους είδους εἴδους eidei eídei eidos eîdos eidous eídous
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Englishman's Concordance
Luke 3:22 N-DNS
GRK: ἅγιον σωματικῷ εἴδει ὡς περιστερὰν
NAS: upon Him in bodily form like
KJV: in a bodily shape like
INT: Holy in a bodily form as a dove

Luke 9:29 N-NNS
GRK: αὐτὸν τὸ εἶδος τοῦ προσώπου
NAS: He was praying, the appearance of His face
KJV: prayed, the fashion of his
INT: he the appearance of the face

John 5:37 N-ANS
GRK: ἀκηκόατε οὔτε εἶδος αὐτοῦ ἑωράκατε
NAS: nor seen His form.
KJV: seen his shape.
INT: have you heard nor form of him have you seen

2 Corinthians 5:7 N-GNS
GRK: οὐ διὰ εἴδους
NAS: for we walk by faith, not by sight--
KJV: not by sight:)
INT: not by sight

1 Thessalonians 5:22 N-GNS
GRK: ἀπὸ παντὸς εἴδους πονηροῦ ἀπέχεσθε
NAS: abstain from every form of evil.
KJV: from all appearance of evil.
INT: from every form of evil abstain

Strong's Greek 1491
5 Occurrences


εἴδει — 1 Occ.
εἶδος — 2 Occ.
εἴδους — 2 Occ.

















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