noun · masculine
epafros
Strong’sG1889
Epaphras
stem epafr-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
Ἐπαφρᾶς, -ᾶ (B1., § 7, 4), ὁ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1889 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidep-af-ras'
Epaphras, a Christian
Fromcontracted from G1891;
King JamesEpaphras.
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
Epaphras:
(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 | epafros2×Ἐπαφρᾶς | epafrois |
| object accusative | epafron | epafroin |
| direct address vocative | epafror | epafroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | epafrou1×Ἐπαφρᾶ | epafroiu |
| to, for dative | epafro | epafroi |
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
epafro 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
epafros“Epaphras”subjectnominative singular2×
Colossians 4:12aspazotō vin Epafros tos ek vu, doulos Christou, pantote …Epaphras, who is one of you and …
Philemon 1:23Aspazotō sin Epafros tos sunaichmalōtos mu en Christo Iēso,Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus …
epafrou“Epaphras”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Colossians 1:7kathōs mathava apo Epafrou tou agapētou sundoulou nu, hos atō …You learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is …