noun · feminine
efesas
Strong’sG2181
Ephesus
stem efes-16 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
Ephesus, the name of a city in Asia Minor 134 mentioned frequently in the New Testament 13. Its origin is probably foreign 2.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Ἔφεσος, -ου, ἡ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2181 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidef'-es-os
Ephesus, a city of Asia Minor
Fromprobably of foreign origin;
King JamesEphesus.
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
Ephesus, a city in Asia Minor
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
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 | efesas | efesais |
| object accusative | efesan8×Ἔφεσον | efesain |
| direct address vocative | efesar | efesair |
| of, belonging to genitive | efesau2×Ἐφέσου | efesaiu |
| to, for dative | efesa6×Ἐφέσῳ | efesai |
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
efesa 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.
16 occurrences, every one of them listed
efesan“Ephesus”objectaccusative singular8×
Acts 18:19katantala de eis Efesan, kakeinoin kataleipata autou, autos de eisercharantos …When they reached Ephesus, Paul left Priscilla and Aquila. He …
Acts 18:24… te gene, andros logios, katantata eis Efesan, dunatos arōntos en tai grafai.… a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well …
Acts 19:1… diercharanton teim anōterikeim mereim erchara eis Efesan kai heuriskara tinoin mathētoin,… through the interior and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples
Acts 19:17… tē kai Hellēnoi toi katoikarōntoi tan Efesan, kai epipiptata fobos epi pantoin autoin, …… the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, and fear came over all of …
Acts 20:16krinatelē gar tos Paulos paraplara tan Efesan, hopōs mē geneteia auto chronotribara en …Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the …
Acts 20:17Apo de tau Milētau pemparantos eis Efesan metakaleta toin presbuteroin tau ekklēsau.From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church.
2 Timothy 4:12Tuchikon de apostelama eis Efesan.Tychicus, however, I have sent to Ephesus.
Revelation 1:11… kai pempasar tai hepta ekklēsai, eis Efesan kai eis Smurnan kai eis Pergaman …… it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and …
efesau“Ephesus”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Acts 18:21… tou theou thelarōntou anagita apo tau Efesau,… willing.” And he set sail from Ephesus.
Acts 19:26… theōravō kai akouavō hoti ouk monem Efesau alla schedōs pantau tau Asiau tos …… and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province …
efesa“Ephesus”to, fordative singular6×
1 Corinthians 15:32ei kata anthrōpon thēriomachama en Efesa, tinem mi tem ofelem? ei nekrois …If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I …
1 Corinthians 16:8epimenami de en Efesa heōs tau pentēkostau;But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,
Ephesians 1:1… theou toi hagioi toi arōntoi en Efesa kai pistoi en Christo Iēso;… of God, To the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:
1 Timothy 1:3Kathōs parakalama sin prosmenara en Efesa, poreuorōntos eis Makedonian, hina parangelaseia tinoi …… Macedonia, you should stay on at Ephesus to instruct certain men not to …
2 Timothy 1:18… ekeina ta hēmera kai hoseim en Efesa diakonata, beltiem sis gnōskasō.… much he ministered to me in Ephesus.
Revelation 2:1To angelo tau en Efesa ekklēsau grafasar; Hōdeim legatō tos kratarōntos …… the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of …