noun · masculine
areopagitos
Strong’sG698
member of the Council of the Areopagus
stem areopagit-once 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.
Ἀρεοπαγίτης (T, -είτης), -ου, ὁ (v. supr.),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G698 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidar-eh-op-ag-ee'-tace
an Areopagite or member of the court held on Mars' Hill
Fromfrom G697;
King JamesAreopagite.
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
also α, ον Refs 5th c.BC+; Ionic dialect Ἀρήϊος, η, ο; Aeolic dialect Ἀρεύϊος Refs 7th c.BC+: (Ἄρης):— devoted to Ares, warlike, martial; in Refs 8th c.BC+, mostly of warriors, Μενέλαος ἈρήιοςRefs 8th c.BC+; of arms, Ἀρήϊα τεύχεα δύωRefs; the Attic dialect form only in the phrase τεῖχος ἌρειονRefs 5th c.BC+ conflicts in real war, opposed to γυμνικοί,Refs; of a man, as substantive, warrior,Refs 6th c.BC+
2 Ἄρειος (also Ἄρεος, Ἄρηος), ὁ (i.e. μήν), name of month in Thessaly, Refs
3 Ἄρειον πεδίον, = Campus Martius, Refs 1st c.BC+ (also name of a plain in Thrace, Refs 2nd c.BC+; τῶν τελῶν τὸ καλούμενον Ἄρειον, = legio Martia, Refs 2nd c.AD+; Ἄρεια, τά, = ludi Martiales, Refs 2nd c.AD+
4 Ἄρειον, τό, ={ξιφίον}, Ps.-Refs 1st c.AD+; ={ἰσάτις}, Refs
II ={Ἄριος, Μάγοι καὶ πᾶν τὸ Ἄρειον γένος} Refs 5th c.AD+
A Ἄρειος πάγος [πᾰ], ὁ, the hill of Ares, at Athens, Ἀρήϊος π.Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰς τὸν Ἄ. πάγον ἀναβῆναι become a member of the court, Refs 5th c.BC+—The compound Ἀρειόπᾰγος only in a late Attic dialect Inscription, Refs; but we find the noun Ἀρεοπᾰγίτης (Ἀρευ- Refs ου, ὁ, Areopagite, Refs 4th c.BC+ 'as silent as the grave', Refs 4th c.AD+:—adjective Ἀρεοπᾰγῖτις, βουλήRefs 4th c.BC+; Ἀρεοπᾰγῑτικός, ή, όν, Refs 5th 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 | areopagitos1×Ἀρεοπαγίτης | areopagitois |
| object accusative | areopagiton | areopagitoin |
| direct address vocative | areopagitor | areopagitoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | areopagitou | areopagitoiu |
| to, for dative | areopagito | areopagitoi |
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
areopagito 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
areopagitos“Areopagite”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 17:34… pisteuala, en hoi kai Dionusios tos Areopagitos kai gunaikas onome Damarias kai heterois …… him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others …