noun · masculine
barsabbos
Strong’sG923
Barsabbas
stem barsabb-2 times 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.
Βαρσαββᾶς (Rec. -αβᾶς), -ᾶ
(Aram., son of Sabba),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G923 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbar-sab-as'
son of Sabas (or Tsaba); Bar-sabas, the name of two Israelites
Fromof Chaldee origin ( and probably );
King JamesBarsabas.
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
Barsabbas:
__1. the surname of one Joseph:
__2. The surname of one Judas:
† (From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
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 | barsabbos | barsabbois |
| object accusative | barsabbon2×Βαρσαββᾶν | barsabboin |
| direct address vocative | barsabbor | barsabboir |
| of, belonging to genitive | barsabbou | barsabboiu |
| to, for dative | barsabbo | barsabboi |
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
barsabbo 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
barsabbon“Barsabbas”objectaccusative singular2×
Acts 1:23kai stēala duo, Iōsēf ton kalorōnton Barsabbon, hos epikalita Ioustos, kai Maththion.… they proposed two men: Joseph called Barsabbas (also known as Justus) and Matthias.
Acts 15:22… Paulo kai Barnabo, Ioudon ton kalorōnton Barsabbon kai Silon, androin hēgorōntoin en toi …… and Barnabas. They chose Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, two leaders among the …