noun · feminine
dusias
Strong’sG1424
a setting of the sun, the West
stem dusi-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.
δύσις, -εως, ἡ
(< δύνω), [in LXX: Ps 103 (104):19 (מָבוֹא) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1424 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddoos-may'
the sun-set, i.e. (by implication) the western region
Fromfrom G1416;
King Jameswest.
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
(δύω) ={δύσις}, setting, mostly in plural, ἀελίου δ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπὶ δυσμῇσιν ἐών at the point of setting, Refs 5th c.BC+
II the quarter of sunset, west, ἀπὸ ἑσπέρης τε καὶ [ἡλίου] δυσμέων Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἀνατολαί, Refs 4th c.AD+:—also δυθμή, Refs 3rd 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 | dusias | dusiais |
| object accusative | dusian | dusiain |
| direct address vocative | dusiar | dusiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | dusiau1×δύσεως | dusiaiu |
| to, for dative | dusia | dusiai |
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
dusia 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
dusiau“west”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Mark 16:8“west”… tos Iēsus apo anatolau kai achri dusiau exapostelata dia autoiu tem hierem kai …So the women left the tomb and ran away, trembling and bewildered. And in their fear they did not say a word to anyone.