ἔριφος
eriphos
“a goat”
Definition
a kid or (genitive case) goat
perhaps from the same as G2053 (ἔριον) (through the idea of hairiness);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
G:N-M
Greek Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
ἔριφος appears 2 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.