noun · feminine
dietias
Strong’sG1333
two years
stem dieti-2 times in the New Testament2 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.
† διετία, -ας, ἡ
(< διετής), [in LXX (Græc. Ven.): Ge 41:1 45:5 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1333 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddee-et-ee'-a
a space of two years (biennium)
Fromfrom G1332;
King Jamestwo years.
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
={διετηρίς}, NT+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 | dietias | dietiais |
| object accusative | dietian1×διετίαν | dietiain |
| direct address vocative | dietiar | dietiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | dietiau1×Διετίας | dietiaiu |
| to, for dative | dietia | dietiai |
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
dietia 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
dietian“two … years”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 28:30Emmenata de dietian holan en idie misthōme, kai apodechote …Paul stayed there two full years in his own rented house, welcoming …
dietiau“two years”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 24:27Dietiau de plērirantau labata diadochon tos Fēlikos …After two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by …