noun · feminine
foinikas
Strong’sG5403
Phoenicia
stem foinik-3 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.
φοινίκη, -ης, ἡ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5403 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfoy-nee'-kay
palm-country; Phœnice (or Phœnicia), a region of Palestine
Fromfrom G5404;
King JamesPhenice, Phenicia.
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
2. the country of Carthage , Refs 5th c.BC (Middle Liddel)
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 | foinikas | foinikais |
| object accusative | foinikan2×Φοινίκην | foinikain |
| direct address vocative | foinikar | foinikair |
| of, belonging to genitive | foinikau1×Φοινίκης | foinikaiu |
| to, for dative | foinika | foinikai |
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
foinika 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
foinikan“Phoenicia”objectaccusative singular2×
Acts 15:3… hupo tau ekklēsau dierchole tan tē Foinikan kai Samareian ekdiēgorōntois tan epistrofan teiu …… by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of …
Acts 21:2kai heuriskarantois ploiem diaperarōntem eis Foinikan epibainarantois anagina.Finding a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we boarded it and set sail.
foinikau“Phoenicia”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 11:19… tau generantau epi Stefano dierchala heōs Foinikau kai Kuprau kai Antiocheiau mēdeno lalarōntois …… with Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message …