noun · feminine
epigrafas
Strong’sG1923
an inscription, title
stem epigraf-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 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.
* ἐπι-γραφή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< ἐπιγράφω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1923 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidep-ig-raf-ay'
an inscription
Fromfrom G1924;
King Jamessuperscription.
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
inscription, στηλῶν on stones, Refs 5th c.BC+
2. title of a work, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3. name of a ship, Refs 1st c.BC+
4. ascription of a deed to its author, credit or honour of a thing, Refs 3rd c.BC+
5. insertion, interlineation in a document, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II. description of parties in pleadings,Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2. registration of property for taxation, in plural, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3. impost, tax, Refs 3rd c.BC+; assessment, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.4. requisition, Refs
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 | epigrafas4×ἐπιγραφή | epigrafais |
| object accusative | epigrafan1×ἐπιγραφήν | epigrafain |
| direct address vocative | epigrafar | epigrafair |
| of, belonging to genitive | epigrafau | epigrafaiu |
| to, for dative | epigrafa | epigrafai |
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
epigrafa 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
epigrafas“inscription”subjectnominative singular4×
Matthew 22:20… Tinou tas eikonas houtas kai tas epigrafas?… is this,” He asked, “and whose inscription?”
Mark 12:16… Tinou tas eikonas houtas kai tas epigrafas? tois de legala auto; Kaisarou.… Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they answered.
Mark 15:26“inscription”kai ate tas epigrafas tau aitiau autou epigraforēntas; Tos basilevos …And the charge inscribed against Him read: THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Luke 23:38ate de kai epigrafas epi auto; Tos basilevos toiu Ioudaioiu …Above Him was posted an inscription: THIS IS THE KING OF THE …
epigrafan“inscription”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 20:24… mi dēnariem; tinou echatō eikonan kai epigrafan? apokrinirantois de legala; Kaisarou.… Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” “Caesar’s,” they answered.