apografas

Strong’sG582

an enrollment, census-taking, record

stem apograf-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.

ἀπο-γραφή, -ῆς, ἡ (ἀπογράφω),

[in LXX: Da LXX 10:21 (כְּתָב), I Es 8:30, AB, II Mac 2:1, III Mac 2:32 4:15, 17 7:22*;]

1. a written copy.

2. As law term, a deposition (Demos.).

3. In late writers, a register, enrolment, census (MM, s.v.; Deiss., LAE, 160, 268 f.): Lk 2:2, Ac 5:37.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G582 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidap-og-raf-ay'

an enrollment; by implication, an assessment

Fromfrom G583;

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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

ἀπογρᾰφ-ή, ἡ,
register, list, of lands or property, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the πεντηκοστολόγοι, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐφήβων Refs 1st c.AD+; list of moneys claimed by the state from private persons, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 register of persons liable to taxation, NT+1st c.AD+, etc.; of the Roman census-lists, Refs 1st c.AD+; muster-roll of soldiers, Refs 2nd c.BC+
3 generally, ἐξ ἀπογραφῆς λέγειν from a written list, Refs 4th c.BC+
II as Attic dialect law-term, copy of a declaration made before a magistrate, deposition or information laid, Refs 5th c.BC+; ποιεῖσθαι ἀ., ={ἀπογράφειν}, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 any written declaration before a magistrate, ἀ. ποιείσθωσαν δηλοῦντες κτλ.Refs 1st c.AD+; especially declaration of property or persons liable to taxation, 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.

census1×registration1×

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	apografas1×ἀπογραφὴ	apografais
object accusative	apografan	apografain
direct address vocative	apografar	apografair
of, belonging to genitive	apografau1×ἀπογραφῆς	apografaiu
to, for dative	apografa	apografai

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

apografstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

apografa 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.

apografomō — ἀπογράφω, I enroll, inscribe in a register

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

apografas“registration”subjectnominative singular1×

Luke 2:2“registration”houtas apografas prōtas geneta hēgemoneuarōntou tau Suriau Kurēniou;This was the first census to take place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

apografau“census”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Acts 5:37… tos Galilaios en tai hēmerai tau apografau kai apostēata laon opisō autou; kakeinos …… appeared in the days of the census and drew away people after him …