noun · masculine
bartholomaios
Strong’sG918
Bartholomew
stem bartholomai-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 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.
Βαρθολομαῖος, -ου, ὁ
(Aram. בַּר־תָּלְמַי, son of Tolmai),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G918 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbar-thol-om-ah'-yos
son of Tolmai; Bar-tholomæus, a Christian apostle
Fromof Chaldee origin ( and );
King JamesBartholomeus.
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
Bartholomew, the Apostle (see: Ναθαναήλ):
(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 | bartholomaios2×Βαρθολομαῖος | bartholomaiois |
| object accusative | bartholomaion2×Βαρθολομαῖον | bartholomaioin |
| direct address vocative | bartholomaior | bartholomaioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | bartholomaiou | bartholomaioiu |
| to, for dative | bartholomaio | bartholomaioi |
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
bartholomaio 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
bartholomaios“Bartholomew”subjectnominative singular2×
Matthew 10:3Filippos kai Bartholomaios, Thōmos kai Mathaios tos telōnos, Iakōbos …Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector …
Acts 1:13… Iakōbos kai Andreos, Filippos kai Thōmos, Bartholomaios kai Mathaios, Iakōbos Halfaiou kai Simōnos …… James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus …
bartholomaion“Bartholomew”objectaccusative singular2×
Mark 3:18kai Andreon kai Filippon kai Bartholomaion kai Mathaion kai Thōmon kai Iakōbon …Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus …
Luke 6:14… Iakōbon kai Iōannon kai Filippon kai Bartholomaion… Andrew; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew;