noun · feminine
dapanas
Strong’sG1160
cost, expense
stem dapan-once in the New Testament1 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.
δαπάνη, -ης, ἡ
[in LXX: Es 6:4, 8 (נִפְקָא), Da LXX Bel 21, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1160 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddap-an'-ay
expense (as consuming)
Fromfrom δάπτω (to devour);
King Jamescost.
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
cost, expenditure, Refs 8th c.BC+; δ. χρυσοῦ καὶ ἀργύρου, χρημάτων, Refs 5th c.BC+; δ. κούφα the cost is little, with infinitive, Refs 5th c.BC+: also in plural, Refs 5th c.BC+
II money spent, ἵππων on horses, Refs.47; δαπάνην παρέχειν money for spending, Refs 5th c.BC+
III extravagance, ἡ ἐν τῇ φύσει δ. Refs 4th c.BC+
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 | dapanas | dapanais |
| object accusative | dapanan1×δαπάνην | dapanain |
| direct address vocative | dapanar | dapanair |
| of, belonging to genitive | dapanau | dapanaiu |
| to, for dative | dapana | dapanai |
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
dapana 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
dapanan“cost”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 14:28… oikodomara ouchi prōtem kathizarantos psēfizatō tan dapanan, ei echatō eis apartismon?… first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the …