noun · masculine
blastos
GreekΒλάστος (blastos)
Strong’sG986
Blastus
stem blast-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
Βλάστος, -ου, ὁ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G986 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidblas'-tos
Blastus, an officer of Herod Agrippa
Fromperhaps the same as the base of G985;
King JamesBlastus.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | blastos | blastois |
| object accusative | blaston1×Βλάστον | blastoin |
| direct address vocative | blastor | blastoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | blastou | blastoiu |
| to, for dative | blasto | blastoi |
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
blasto 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
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
blaston“Blastus”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 12:20“Blastus”Ate de thumomacharōtos Turioi kai Sidōnioi; homothumadōs de pareiale pros auton, kai peitharatois Blaston ton epi tou koitōnou tou basilevou aitele eirēnan dia tem trefirō autoiu tan chōran apo tau basilikau.Now Herod was in a furious dispute with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they convened before him. Having secured the support of Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their region depended on the king’s country for food.