noun · masculine
epafroditos
Strong’sG1891
Epaphroditus
stem epafrodit-2 times in the New Testament2 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.
Ἐπαφρόδιτος, -ου, ὁ
(i.e. charming);
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1891 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidep-af-rod'-ee-tos
Epaphroditus, a Christian
Fromfrom G1909 (in the sense of devoted to) and Ἀφροδίτη (Venus);
King JamesEpaphroditus.
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
(Ἀφροδίτη) lovely, fascinating, charming, of persons, Refs 5th c.BC+; of things, ἔπη καὶ ἔργα Refs 5th c.BC+; ποίησις Refs 5th c.BC+: superlative -ότατοςRefs 5th c.BC+. adverb -τως, γράφειν Refs 1st c.BC+
II used to translate Sulla's epithet Felix, favoured by Venus, i.e. fortune's favourite (metaphorically from the dice), Refs 1st c.AD+
III gracious, ἡγεμονία Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | epafroditos | epafroditois |
| object accusative | epafroditon1×Ἐπαφρόδιτον | epafroditoin |
| direct address vocative | epafroditor | epafroditoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | epafroditou1×Ἐπαφροδίτου | epafroditoiu |
| to, for dative | epafrodito | epafroditoi |
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
epafrodito 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
epafroditon“Epaphroditus”objectaccusative singular1×
Philippians 2:25Anankaiem de hēgema Epafroditon ton adelfon kai sunergon kai sustratiōton …… necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow …
epafroditou“Epaphroditus”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Philippians 4:18… panteim kai perisseuamō; plēromē decherantos para Epafroditou teim para vu, osman euōdiau, thusian …… I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an …