noun · feminine
apokrisias
Strong’sG612
an answer, reply
stem apokrisi-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 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.
ἀπό-κρισις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἀποκρίνομαι), [in LXX for דּבר, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G612 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidap-ok'-ree-sis
a response
Fromfrom G611;
King Jamesanswer.
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
separation, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 in Medicine texts, excretion or secretion, γονῆςRefs 5th c.BC+; ἀ.σπερματική, περιττωματική, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 ἀ. νοσηρή exhalation, miasma, Refs 5th c.BC+
II (from middle) decision, answer, first in Refs 6th c.BC+
II.2 defence, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 rescript, Refs 6th c.AD+; = responsum, Refs
II.4 embassy, commission, Refs 6th c.AD+
III a kind of dance, Refs 5th 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 | apokrisias | apokrisiais |
| object accusative | apokrisian2×ἀπόκρισιν | apokrisiain |
| direct address vocative | apokrisiar | apokrisiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | apokrisiau | apokrisiaiu |
| to, for dative | apokrisia1×ἀποκρίσει | apokrisiai1×ἀποκρίσεσιν |
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
apokrisia 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
apokrisian“answer”objectaccusative singular2×
John 1:22legala oun auto; Tinos asō? hina apokrisian dōaneia toi pemparantoi nin; tinem legasō …… Who are you? We need an answer for those who sent us. What …
John 19:9… Pothen asō sis? tos de Iēsus apokrisian ouk dōata auto.… he asked. But Jesus gave no answer.
apokrisia“answer”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 20:26… tou laou, kai thaumazarantois epi ta apokrisia autou sigala.… the people. And amazed at His answer, they fell silent.
apokrisiai“answers”to, fordative plural1×
Luke 2:47… autou epi ta sunesia kai tai apokrisiai autou.… astounded at His understanding and His answers.