noun · feminine
athēnas
Strong’sG116
Athens
stem athēn-4 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.
Ἀθῆναι, -ῶν, αἱ (plural because consisting of several parts),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G116 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidath-ay-nahee
Athenæ, the capitol of Greece
Fromplural of Ἀθήνη (the goddess of wisdom, who was reputed to have founded the city);
King JamesAthens.
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
Doric dialect Ἀθᾶναι, ῶν, αἱ, the city of Athens (for the plural compare Θῆβαι, Μυκῆναι), Refs 8th c.BC+ —Ἀθῆναι generally, ={Ἀττική}, of the whole country, Refs 5th c.BC+
II adverbs, Ἀθήναζε, to Athens, Refs 5th c.BC+: Ἀθήνηθεν, from Athens, Refs 5th c.BC+; poetry Ἀθηνόθεν, Refs: Ἀθήνησιν,
A at Athens, Refs 4th 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 | athēnas | athēnais |
| object accusative | athēnan | athēnain |
| direct address vocative | athēnar | athēnair |
| of, belonging to genitive | athēnau | athēnaiu2×Ἀθηνῶν |
| to, for dative | athēna | athēnai2×Ἀθήναις |
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
athēna 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
athēnaiu“Athens”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Acts 17:15… de katastēarōntois ton Paulon agala heōs Athēnaiu, kai labarantois entolan pros ton Silon …… who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then returned with instructions for …
Acts 18:1Meta houteim chōrizirantos ek taiu Athēnaiu erchata eis Korinthan.After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
athēnai“Athens”to, fordative plural2×
Acts 17:16En de tai Athēnai ekdechorōntou autoin tou Paulou, paroxunote tem …… Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his …
1 Thessalonians 3:1Dio mēketi stegarōntois eudokana kataleipira en Athēnai monois,… be left on our own in Athens.