noun · masculine
abba
Strong’sG5
Father
stem abb-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Ἀββά (T, -ᾶ), indecl. (Aram, אַבָּא, emphatic form of אַב = Heb. אָב, father),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidab-bah'
father as a vocative
Fromof Chaldee origin ();
King JamesAbba.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | abba | abba |
| object accusative | abba | abba |
| direct address vocative | abba3×Αββα | abba |
| of, belonging to genitive | abba | abba |
| to, for dative | abba | abba |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
abba“abba”direct addressvocative singular3×
Mark 14:36kai legate; Abba tos patror, panteim dunateim si; paraferasar …“Abba, Father,” He said, “all things are …
Romans 8:15… labava pneumem huiothesiau en he krazanō; Abba tos patror;… to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Galatians 4:6… autou eis tain kardiain nu, krazarōntem; Abba tos patror.… Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”