Word Summary
schēma: figure, shape
Original Word: σχῆμαTransliteration: schēma
Phonetic Spelling: (skhay'-mah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: figure, shape
Meaning: figure, shape
Strong's Concordance
outward appearance, form, shape
From the alternate of echo; a figure (as a mode or circumstance), i.e. (by implication) external condition -- fashion.
see GREEK echo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4976: σχῆμασχῆμα,
σχηματος,
τό (
ἔχω,
σχεῖν), from
Aeschylus down, Latin
habitus (cf. English
haviour (from have)),
A. V. fashion, Vulg.figura (but in Phil.
habitus) (tacitly opposed to the material or substance):
τοῦ κόσμου τούτου,
1 Corinthians 7:31; the habitus, as comprising everything in a person which strikes the senses, the figure, bearing, discourse, actions, manner of life, etc.,
Philippians 2:7(8). (Synonym: see
μορφή at the end, and
Schmidt, chapter 182, 5.)