noun · feminine
bernikas
Strong’sG959
Bernice
stem bernik-3 times in the New Testament2 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.
Βερνίκη
(elsewhere Βερενίκη, Macedonian form of Φερενίκη, cf. Veronica, Victoria), -ης, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G959 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Bernice, Berenice, dau. of Herod Agrippa I:
(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 | bernikas2×Βερνίκη | bernikais |
| object accusative | bernikan | bernikain |
| direct address vocative | bernikar | bernikair |
| of, belonging to genitive | bernikau1×Βερνίκης | bernikaiu |
| to, for dative | bernika | bernikai |
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
bernika 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
bernikas“Bernice”subjectnominative singular2×
Acts 25:13… diagenerantaiu tinaiu Agrippos tos basilevos kai Bernikas katantala eis Kaisareian aspazerantois ton Fēston.… days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea to pay …
Acts 26:30… basilevos kai tos hēgemonos tas tē Bernikas kai tois sunkathorōntois autoi,… and the governor rose, along with Bernice and those seated with them.
bernikau“Bernice”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 25:23… epaurion ercharantou tou Agrippou kai tau Bernikau meta pollau fantasiau kai eisercharantoiu eis …The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered …