adjective
athēnaios
Strong’sG117
Athenian
stem athēnai-2 times in the New Testament2 of 26 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.
Ἀθηναῖος, -α, -ον,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G117 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidath-ay-nah'-yos
an Athenæan or inhabitant of Athenæ
Fromfrom G116;
King JamesAthenian.
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
quality of being Athenian, Refs 2nd 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | athēnaios | athēnaias | athēnaiem | athēnaiois1×Ἀθηναῖοι | athēnaiais | athēnaieim |
| object accusative | athēnaion | athēnaian | athēnaioin | athēnaiain | ||
| direct address vocative | athēnaior | athēnaiar | athēnaioir1×Ἀθηναῖοι | athēnaiair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | athēnaiou | athēnaiau | athēnaieu | athēnaioiu | athēnaiaiu | athēnaieiu |
| to, for dative | athēnaio | athēnaia | athēnaie | athēnaioi | athēnaiai | athēnaiei |
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
athēnai 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
athēnaiois“athenians”subjectnominative plural1×
Acts 17:21Athēnaiois de pantois kai tois epidēmarōntois xenois …Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent …
athēnaioir“of athens”direct addressvocative plural1×
Acts 17:22… mese tou Areiou Pagosou fēate; Androir Athēnaioir, kata panteim hōs deisidaimōnoteroin vin theōramō;… of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in every way …