noun · masculine
christianos
Strong’sG5546
a Christian
stem christian-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 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.
Χριστιανός (D, Χρεισ-; on the form Χρησ-, v. Bl., § 3, 6; 27, 4 on the ending, -ανος, v. Bl., ll. c.; Deiss., LAE, 382), -οῦ ὁ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5546 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhris-tee-an-os'
a Christian, i.e. follower of Christ
Fromfrom G5547;
King JamesChristian.
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
Christian, NT adverb -νῶς, ζῆν Refs 3rd 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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | christianos1×Χριστιανός | christianois |
| object accusative | christianon1×Χριστιανὸν | christianoin1×Χριστιανούς |
| direct address vocative | christianor | christianoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | christianou | christianoiu |
| to, for dative | christiano | christianoi |
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
christiano 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
christianos“Christian”subjectnominative singular1×
1 Peter 4:16ei de hōs Christianos, mē aischunotōr, doxazatōr de ton theon …But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify …
christianon“Christian”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 26:28… ton Paulon; En olige min peithasō Christianon poiara.… a short time to become a Christian?”
christianoin“Christians”objectaccusative plural1×
Acts 11:26… tē prōtōs en Antiocheia toin mathētoin Christianoin.… people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.