noun · masculine
diadochos
Strong’sG1240
a successor
stem diadoch-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.
διά-δοχος, -ου, ὁ, ἡ
(< διαδέχομαι), [in LXX: I Ch 18:17 (לְיַד), II Ch 26:11 (שַׂר) 28:7 (מִשְׁנֶה), Si 46:1 48:8, II Mac 4:29 14:26 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1240 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddee-ad'-okh-os
a successor in office
Fromfrom G1237;
King Jamesroom.
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
succeeding a person in a thing:
1 with dative person et genitive of things, δ. Μεγαβάζῳ τῆς στρατηγίης his successor in the command, Refs 5th c.BC+; θνητοῖς.. διάδοχοι μοχθημάτων succeeding them in, i.e. relieving them from, toils, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 with genitive of things only, δ. τῆς Ἀστυόχου ναυαρχίας succeeding to his command, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 with genitive person only, φέγγος ὕπνου δ. sleep's successor light, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 with dative person only, δ. Κλεάνδρῳ Refs 5th c.BC+; quasiact., λύπη.. δ. κακῶν κακοῖς bringing a succession of evils after evils, Refs; ἀγὼν.. γόων γόοις (γόων bis codices) δ. Refs
5 absolutely, διάδοχοι ἐφοίτων they went to work in relays or gangs, Refs 5th c.BC+: neuter plural as adverb, in turn, Refs 5th c.BC+
6 as substantive, οἱ Δ. the Refs 1st c.BC+
6.b the lowest grade of court officials at Alexandria, Refs 2nd c.BC+
6.c substitute, deputy, Refs 2nd c.AD+
6.d head of a school of philosophers, τῆς σχολῆς Refs 1st c.BC+
6.e a kind of gem, Refs 1st c.AD+
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 | diadochos | diadochois |
| object accusative | diadochon1×διάδοχον | diadochoin |
| direct address vocative | diadochor | diadochoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | diadochou | diadochoiu |
| to, for dative | diadocho | diadochoi |
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
diadocho 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
diadochon“succeeded”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 24:27Dietiau de plērirantau labata diadochon tos Fēlikos Porkion Fēston; thelarōntos tē …… two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. And wishing to …