noun · feminine
dorkadas
Strong’sG1393
Dorcas
stem dorkad-2 times 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.
Δορκάς, -άδος, ἡ
(δορκάς, a gazelle),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1393 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddor-kas'
gazelle; Dorcas, a Christian woman
King JamesDorcas.
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
(δέρκομαι, δέδορκα) an animal of the deer kind (so called from its large bright eyes), in Greece, roe, Cervus capreolus, Refs 5th c.BC+; in Syria and Africa, gazelle, Antilope dorcas, Refs 5th c.BC+—Other forms:—δόρξ, δορκός, ἡ, Refs 5th c.BC+: δόρκος, ὁ, Refs 1st c.AD+: δόρκων, ωνος, ὁ, Palamed. cited in LXX+3rd c.BC+: ζορκάς (see. above): ζόρξ, Refs 3rd c.BC+: ἴορκος, Refs 3rd 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 | dorkadas2×Δορκάς | dorkadais |
| object accusative | dorkadan | dorkadain |
| direct address vocative | dorkadar | dorkadair |
| of, belonging to genitive | dorkadau | dorkadaiu |
| to, for dative | dorkada | dorkadai |
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
dorkada 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
dorkadas“Dorcas”subjectnominative singular2×
Acts 9:36… mathētrias onome Tabitha, has diermēneuorōntas legotō Dorkadas; houtas ate plēras ergeiu agatheiu kai …… named Tabitha (which is translated as Dorcas), who was always occupied with works …
Acts 9:39… hoseim poiate meta autaiu arōntas tas Dorkadas.… the tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still …