noun · feminine
damaskas
Strong’sG1154
Damascus
stem damask-15 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
Δαμασκός is a proper name referring to Damascus, a city of Syria 1234, derived from a Hebrew word 123. In the New Testament it appears in accounts of journeys to and from the city, and in a reference to an escape from it 13.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Strong’s G1154 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddam-as-kos'
Damascus, a city of Syria
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesDamascus.
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
Damascus:
(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 | damaskas | damaskais |
| object accusative | damaskan7×Δαμασκόν | damaskain |
| direct address vocative | damaskar | damaskair |
| of, belonging to genitive | damaskau | damaskaiu |
| to, for dative | damaska8×Δαμασκῷ | damaskai |
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
damaska 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.
15 occurrences, every one of them listed
damaskan“Damascus”objectaccusative singular7×
Acts 9:2aiteta para autou epistolain eis Damaskan pros tain sunagōgain, hopōs ean tinoin …… requested letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any …
Acts 9:8… blepate; cheiragōgarōntois de auton eisagala eis Damaskan.… led him by the hand into Damascus.
Acts 22:5… epistolain decherantos pros toin adelfoin eis Damaskan poreuome agarintos kai toin ekeise arōntoin …… from them to their brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way …
Acts 22:10… legata pros min; Anastēarantos poreuosōr eis Damaskan, kakei si laliti peri panteiu heiu …… Lord?’ ‘Get up and go into Damascus,’ He told me. ‘There you will …
Acts 22:11… hupo toiu suneiarōntoiu mi erchama eis Damaskan.… led me by the hand into Damascus.
Acts 26:12En hei poreuorōntos eis tan Damaskan meta exousiau kai epitropau tau toiu …… I was on my way to Damascus with the authority and commission of …
Galatians 1:17… eis Arabian, kai palin hupostrefama eis Damaskan.… into Arabia and later returned to Damascus.
damaska“Damascus”to, fordative singular8×
Acts 9:3… te poreuorō geneta auton engizarō ta Damaska, exaifnōs tē auton periastraptata fōtem ek …As Saul drew near to Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light …
Acts 9:10Ate de tinos mathētos en Damaska onome Hananios, kai legata pros auton …In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias …
Acts 9:19… enischuata. Geneta de meta toiu en Damaska mathētoiu hēmerain tinain,… several days with the disciples in Damascus.
Acts 9:22… sunchate toin Ioudaioin toin katoikarōntoin en Damaska, sumbibazarōntos hoti houtos atō tos christos.… he confounded the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the …
Acts 9:27… hoti lalata auto kai pōs en Damaska parrēsiazeta en te onome tou Iēsu.… to him on the road to Damascus, and how Saul had spoken boldly …
Acts 22:6… de mi poreuorōnto kai engizarōnto ta Damaska peri mesēmbrian exaifnōs ek tou ouranou …About noon as I was approaching Damascus, suddenly a bright light from heaven …
Acts 26:20alla toi en Damaska prōtem tē kai Hierosolumei, pantan tē …First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in …
2 Corinthians 11:32en Damaska tos ethnarchos Haretou tou basilevou frourate …In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured …