noun · feminine
diēgēsias
Strong’sG1335
a narrative
stem diēgēsi-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.
δι-ήγησις, -εως, ἡ
(< διηγέομαι), [in LXX: Jg 7:15 מִסְפָּר Hb 2:6 (חִידָה), freq. in (Si 6:35, al.), II Mac 2:32 6:17;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1335 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddee-ayg'-es-is
a recital
Fromfrom G1334;
King Jamesdeclaration.
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
narration, narrative, NT+5th c.BC+; in a speech, statement of the case, 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 | diēgēsias | diēgēsiais |
| object accusative | diēgēsian1×διήγησιν | diēgēsiain |
| direct address vocative | diēgēsiar | diēgēsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | diēgēsiau | diēgēsiaiu |
| to, for dative | diēgēsia | diēgēsiai |
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
diēgēsia 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
diēgēsian“narrative”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 1:1“narrative”Epeidēper pollois epicheirala anatassera diēgēsian peri teiu plērofororēnteiu en ni pragmeiu,Many have undertaken to compose an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,