noun · masculine
dēmaos
GreekΔημᾶς (dēmas)
Strong’sG1214
Demas
stem dēma-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
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.
Every form
| 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
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
dēmaos“Demas”subjectnominative singular3×
Colossians 4:14“Demas”aspazetō vin Loukos tos iatros tos agapētos kai Dēmaos.Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas send you greetings.
2 Timothy 4:10“Demas”Dēmaos gar min enkataleipata agaparatos ton nun aiōnon, kai poreuita eis Thessalonikan, Krēskos eis Galatian, Titos eis Dalmatian;because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
Philemon 1:24“Demas”Markos, Aristarchos, Dēmaos, Loukos, tois sunergois mu.as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.