noun · masculine
dēmētrios
Strong’sG1216
Demetrius
stem dēmētri-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
Δημήτριος, -ου, ὁ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1216 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidday-may'-tree-os
Demetrius, the name of an Ephesian and of a Christian
Fromfrom Δημήτηρ (Ceres);
King JamesDemetrius.
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
Demetrius;
__1. a silversmith,
__2. A Christian disciple,
(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 | dēmētrios2×Δημήτριος | dēmētriois |
| object accusative | dēmētrion | dēmētrioin |
| direct address vocative | dēmētrior | dēmētrioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | dēmētriou | dēmētrioiu |
| to, for dative | dēmētrio1×Δημητρίῳ | dēmētrioi |
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
dēmētrio 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
dēmētrios“Demetrius”subjectnominative singular2×
Acts 19:24Dēmētrios gar tinos onome, argurokopos, poiarōntos naoin …It began with a silversmith named Demetrius who made silver shrines of Artemis …
Acts 19:38ei men oun Dēmētrios kai tois sun auto technitois echalō …So if Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen have a …
dēmētrio“Demetrius”to, fordative singular1×
3 John 1:12Dēmētrio marturotē hupo pantoiu kai hupo autau …Demetrius has received a good testimony from …