noun · masculine
aithiopos
Strong’sG128
an Ethiopian
stem aithiop-2 times in the New Testament2 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.
Αἰθίοψ, -οπος, ὁ
(< αἴθω, to burn, ὤψ, face; i.e. swarthy), [in LXX for כּוּשׁ;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G128 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidahee-thee'-ops
an Æthiopian (as a blackamoor)
Fromfrom αἴθω (to scorch) and ὤψ (the face, from G3700);
King JamesEthiopian.
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
feminine Αἰθιοπίς, ίδος, ἡ (Αἰθίοψ as feminine, Refs 4th c.BC+: plural ΑἰθιοπῆεςRefs 8th c.BC+: (αἴθω, ὄψ):—properly, Burnt-face, i.e. Ethiopian, negro, Refs 8th c.BC+; proverbial, Αἰθίοπα σμήχειν 'to wash a blackamoor white', Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 a fish, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II adjective, Refs 5th c.BC+substantive Αἰθιοπίς, ἡ, title of Epic poem in the Homeric cycle; also name of a plant, silver sage, Salvia argentea, Refs 1st c.AD+:— also Αἰθιόπιος, α, ον, Refs 5th c.BC+: Αἰθιοπικός, ή, όν, Refs 5th c.BC+; Αἰ. κύμινον, ={ἄμι}, Refs 5th c.BC+:—substantive Αἰθιοπία, ἡ, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 red-brown, Refs 1st c.BC+
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 | aithiopos1×Αἰθίοψ | aithiopois |
| object accusative | aithiopon | aithiopoin |
| direct address vocative | aithiopor | aithiopoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | aithiopou | aithiopoiu1×Αἰθιόπων |
| to, for dative | aithiopo | aithiopoi |
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
aithiopo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
aithiopos“Ethiopian”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 8:27kai anastēarantos poreuita, kai idou andros Aithiopos eunouchos dunastos Kandakau basilissau Aithiopoiu, hos …… on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge …
aithiopoiu“Ethiopians”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Acts 8:27… andros Aithiopos eunouchos dunastos Kandakau basilissau Aithiopoiu, hos ate epi pantau tau gazau …… treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to …