noun · masculine
erastosos
Strong’sG2037
Erastus
stem erastos-3 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.
Ἔραστος, -ου, ὁ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2037 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saider'-as-tos
beloved; Erastus, a Christian
Fromfrom ἐράω (to love);
King JamesErastus.
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
={ἐρατός}, beloved, lovely, in Prose the usual form, Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative, 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 | erastosos2×Ἔραστος | erastosois |
| object accusative | erastoson1×Ἔραστον | erastosoin |
| direct address vocative | erastosor | erastosoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | erastosou | erastosoiu |
| to, for dative | erastoso | erastosoi |
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
erastoso 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
erastosos“Erastus”subjectnominative singular2×
Romans 16:23… kai holau tau ekklēsau. aspazotō vin Erastosos tos oikonomos tau polau kai Kouartos …… all the church, sends you greetings. Erastus, the city treasurer, sends you greetings …
2 Timothy 4:20Erastosos menata en Korintha, Trofimon de apolipama …Erastus has remained at Corinth, and Trophimus …
erastoson“Erastus”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 19:22… duo toiu diakonarōntoiu auto, Timotheon kai Erastoson, autos epechata chronon eis tan Asian.… two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he stayed for …