noun · feminine
alabastras
Strong’sG211
an alabaster phial or bottle
stem alabastr-2 times in the New Testament1 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.
ἀλάβαστρον, -ου, τό (also -ος, ὁ, ἡ; colloq. and κοινή for ἀλάβαστος),
[in LXX: IV Ki 21:13 (צַלַּחַת)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G211 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidal-ab'-as-tron
properly, an "alabaster" box, i.e. (by extension) a perfume vase (of any material)
Fromneuter of ἀλάβαστρος (of uncertain derivation), the name of a stone;
King James(alabaster) box.
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
or ἄλᾰβ-στρος, ὁ (ἡ, variant in Ev Marc. 14.3), globular vase without handles for holding perfumes, often made of alabaster, Refs 5th c.BC+ is the earlier Attic dialect form, Refs 4th c.BC+: Doric dialect accusative plural ἀλαβάστρωςRefs 3rd c.BC+:—neuter ἀλάβαστρον NT+3rd c.BC+: plural ἀλάβαστρα or -τα Refs 3rd 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 | alabastras | alabastrais |
| object accusative | alabastran2×ἀλάβαστρον | alabastrain |
| direct address vocative | alabastrar | alabastrair |
| of, belonging to genitive | alabastrau | alabastraiu |
| to, for dative | alabastra | alabastrai |
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
alabastra 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
alabastran“jar”objectaccusative singular2×
Mark 14:3… leprou katakeiorōntou autou erchata gunaikas echarōntas alabastran mureu nardau pistikau polutelau; suntribarantas tan …… Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure …
Mark 14:3… mureu nardau pistikau polutelau; suntribarantas tan alabastran katachata autou tau kefalau.… pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.