noun · masculine
dēmaos
Strong’sG1214
Demas
stem dēma-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 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.
Δημᾶς, ὁ
(perh. contracted from Δημήτριος),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1214 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidday-mas'
Demas, a Christian
Fromprobably for G1216;
King JamesDemas.
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
(perh. contracted from Δημήτριος),
Demas, a companion of St. Paul:
(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 | dēmaos3×Δημᾶς | dēmaois |
| object accusative | dēmaon | dēmaoin |
| direct address vocative | dēmaor | dēmaoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | dēmaou | dēmaoiu |
| to, for dative | dēmao | dēmaoi |
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
dēmao 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
dēmaos“Demas”subjectnominative singular3×
Colossians 4:14… Loukos tos iatros tos agapētos kai Dēmaos.Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas send you greetings.
2 Timothy 4:10Dēmaos gar min enkatalipata agaparantos ton nun …because Demas, in his love of this world …
Philemon 1:24Markos, Aristarchos, Dēmaos, Loukos, tois sunergois mu.as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.