noun · feminine
efēmerias
Strong’sG2183
a class of priests
stem efēmeri-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.
† ἐφ-ημερία, -ας, ἡ
(< ἐφήμερος), [in LXX chiefly for מִשְׁמֶרֶת, מַחֲלֹקֶת;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2183 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidef-ay-mer-ee'-ah
diurnality, i.e. (specially) the quotidian rotation or class of the Jewish priests' service at the Temple, as distributed by families
Fromfrom G2184;
King Jamescourse.
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
division of the priests for the daily service of the temple, LXX+NT
2 the service itself, LXX
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 | efēmerias | efēmeriais |
| object accusative | efēmerian | efēmeriain |
| direct address vocative | efēmeriar | efēmeriair |
| of, belonging to genitive | efēmeriau2×ἐφημερίας | efēmeriaiu |
| to, for dative | efēmeria | efēmeriai |
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
efēmeria 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
efēmeriau“division”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Luke 1:5… Ioudaiau hierevos tinos onome Zacharios ek efēmeriau Abia, kai gunaikas auto ek taiu …… Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth …
Luke 1:8… hierateuarō auton en ta taxia tau efēmeriau autou enanti tou theouOne day while Zechariah’s division was on duty and he was …