noun · feminine
eparcheias
Strong’sG1885
sphere of duty, province
stem eparchei-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.
† ἐπαρχεία (Rec. -χία, v. Bl., § 3, 5), -ας, ἡ
(< ἔπαρχος, a prefect), [in LXX: Es 4:11 (מְדִינָה), Jth 3:6 A*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1885 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidep-ar-khee'-ah
a special region of government, i.e. a Roman præfecture
Fromfrom a compound of G1909 and G757 (meaning a governor of a district, "eparch");
King Jamesprovince.
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
the government of an ἔπαρχος, or the district governed by him, = Latin provincia, NT+2nd c.BC+; of Carthage, empire, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II military 'command', force occupying a district, Refs 3rd c.BC+
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 | eparcheias | eparcheiais |
| object accusative | eparcheian | eparcheiain |
| direct address vocative | eparcheiar | eparcheiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | eparcheiau1×ἐπαρχείας | eparcheiaiu |
| to, for dative | eparcheia1×ἐπαρχείᾳ | eparcheiai |
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
eparcheia 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
eparcheiau“province”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 23:34anagnōskarantos de kai eperōtarantos ek poiau eparcheiau atō kai punthanerantos hoti apo Kilikiau,… read the letter and asked what province Paul was from. Learning that he …
eparcheia“province”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 25:1Fēstos oun epibainarantos ta eparcheia meta treis hēmerain anabainata eis Hierosolumeim …… days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to …