noun · feminine
filadelfeias
Strong’sG5359
Philadelphia
stem filadelfei-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.
Φιλαδελφία (Rec. -έλφεια), -ας, ἡ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5359 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfil-ad-el'-fee-ah
Philadelphia, a place in Asia Minor
Fromfrom Φιλάδελφος (the same as G5361), a king of Pergamos;
King JamesPhiladelphia.
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
Philadelphia, a city of Lydia:
(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 | filadelfeias | filadelfeiais |
| object accusative | filadelfeian1×Φιλαδέλφειαν | filadelfeiain |
| direct address vocative | filadelfeiar | filadelfeiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | filadelfeiau | filadelfeiaiu |
| to, for dative | filadelfeia1×Φιλαδελφείᾳ | filadelfeiai |
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
filadelfeia 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
filadelfeian“Philadelphia”objectaccusative singular1×
Revelation 1:11… Thuateireim kai eis Sardiain kai eis Filadelfeian kai eis Laodikeian.… to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
filadelfeia“Philadelphia”to, fordative singular1×
Revelation 3:7Kai to angelo tau en Filadelfeia ekklēsau grafasar; Hōdeim legatō tos hagios, …… the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of …