dōdekafulem

Strong’sG1429

the Twelve Tribes of Israel

stem dōdekaful-once in the New Testament1 of 6 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.

*† δωδεκά-φυλος, -ον

(< δώδεκα, φυλή),

of twelve tribes: as subst. neut., τό δ. (cf. λαὸς ὁ δ., Sibyll. Orac.), the twelve tribes, Ac 26:7.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1429 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiddo-dek-af'-oo-lon

the commonwealth of Israel

Fromfrom G1427 and G5443;

King Jamestwelve tribes.

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

δωδεκά-φῡλος, ον,
of twelve tribes, τὸ δ. the twelve tribes of Israel, NT

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.

twelve tribes1×

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 or object direct	dōdekafulem1×δωδεκάφυλον	dōdekafuleim
of, belonging to genitive	dōdekafuleu	dōdekafuleiu
to, for dative	dōdekafule	dōdekafulei

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

dōdekafulstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

dōdekafule 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

dōdekafulem“twelve tribes”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Acts 26:7eis han tem dōdekafulem nu en ekteneia nuktan kai hēmeran …the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as …