noun · masculine
elisaios
GreekἘλισαῖος (elisaios)
Strong’sG1666
Elisha
stem elisai-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
Ἐλισαῖος (Rec. Ἐλισσαῖος; T, Ἑλισ-), -ου, ὁ (Heb. אֱלִישָׁע),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1666 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidel-is-sah'-yos
Elissæus, an Israelite
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesElissæus.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | elisaios | elisaiois |
| object accusative | elisaion | elisaioin |
| direct address vocative | elisaior | elisaioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | elisaiou1×Ἐλισαίου | elisaioiu |
| to, for dative | elisaio | elisaioi |
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
elisaio 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
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
elisaiou“Elisha”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 4:27“Elisha”kai pollois leprois ale en to Israēl epi Elisaiou tou profētou, kai oudenos autoiu katharizita, ei mē Naiman tos Suros.And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. Yet not one of them was cleansed— only Naaman the Syrian.”