noun · neuter
alfa
Strong’sG1
the first letter of the Greek alphabet
stem alf-3 times in the New Testament1 of 6 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.
Ἄλφα, τό, indecl. (v.s. Α),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidal'-fah
the first letter of the alphabet; figuratively, only (from its use as a numeral) the first:
Fromof Hebrew origin;
King JamesAlpha.
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
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect for ἦν, imperfect of εἰμί. ἔᾱγα, ἐάγην [ᾰ], see at {ἄγνυμι}. ἔακεν· ἀλγεῖ, Refs 5th c.AD+ ἕᾱδα, participle ἑᾱδώς, see at {ἁνδάνω}. ἐάλη, see at {εἴλω}. ἐαλόν· λυπηρόν, λυτήριον, Refs 5th c.AD+ ἑάλωκα, ἑαλώκειν, see at {ἁλίσκομαι}.
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 or object direct | alfa3×Ἄλφα | alfa |
| of, belonging to genitive | alfa | alfa |
| to, for dative | alfa | alfa |
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
alfa“Alpha”subject or objectdirect singular3×
Revelation 1:8Mis amō tem Alfa kai tem Ō, legatō kurios, tos …“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord …
Revelation 21:6kai legata mi; Genalē. mis tem Alfa kai tem Ō, tas archas kai …… It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and …
Revelation 22:13mis tem Alfa kai tem Ō, tos prōtos kai …I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and …