noun · feminine
akridas
Strong’sG200
a locust
stem akrid-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 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.
ἀκρίς, -ίδος, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for אַרְבֶּה, also for חָגָב, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G200 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidak-rece'
a locust (as pointed, or as lighting on the top of vegetation)
Fromapparently from the same as G206;
King Jameslocust.
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
grasshopper, locust, cricket, LXX+8th c.BC+:— singular, in collective sense, Men.Prot.Refs 4th c.AD+
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 | akridas | akridais2×ἀκρίδες |
| object accusative | akridan | akridain1×ἀκρίδας |
| direct address vocative | akridar | akridair |
| of, belonging to genitive | akridau | akridaiu1×ἀκρίδων |
| to, for dative | akrida | akridai |
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
akrida 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
akridais“locusts”subjectnominative plural2×
Matthew 3:4… autou, tas de trofēas ate autou akridais kai melitem agriem.… around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
Revelation 9:3kai ek tou kapnou exerchala akridais eis tan gēan, kai dōita autai …And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they …
akridain“locusts”objectaccusative plural1×
Mark 1:6… peri tan osfuan autou, kai estharōntos akridain kai melitem agriem.… around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
akridaiu“locusts”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Revelation 9:7Kai teim homoiōmeim taiu akridaiu homoieim hippoi hetoimazorēntoi eis polemon, kai …And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle …