noun · masculine
gaios
Strong’sG1050
Gaius
stem gai-5 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 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.
Γαῖος, -ου, ὁ (Γάϊος, Rec.),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1050 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidgah'-ee-os
Gaius (i.e. Caius), a Christian
Fromof Latin origin;
King JamesGaius.
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
Doric dialectfor γήϊος, onland, Refs 4th c.BC+; earthy, γ. κόνις Refs; of the land, κόγχοι Refs 5th c.BC+; παῖς γ. child of earth, terrae filius, of a slave, probably in Refs; ἄνεμος a land wind, Refs 5th c.AD+; also, ={ἐργάτης βοῦς}, Refs
II τὸν γάϊον, ={καταχθόνιον}, probably in Refs 4th 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 | gaios2×Γάϊος | gaiois |
| object accusative | gaion2×Γάϊον | gaioin |
| direct address vocative | gaior | gaioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | gaiou | gaioiu |
| to, for dative | gaio1×Γαΐῳ | gaioi |
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
gaio 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
gaios“Gaius”subjectnominative singular2×
Acts 20:4… Thessalonikevoiu de Aristarchos kai Sekoundos, kai Gaios Derbaios kai Timotheos, Asianois de Tuchikos …… Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and …
Romans 16:23aspazotō vin Gaios tos xenos mu kai holau tau …Gaius, who has hosted me and all …
gaion“Gaius”objectaccusative singular2×
Acts 19:29… tē homothumadōs eis tem theatrem sunarpazarantois Gaion kai Aristarchon Makedonoin, sunekdēmoin Paulou.… into the theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s traveling companions from …
1 Corinthians 1:14… vu baptizama ei mē Krispon kai Gaion,… any of you except Crispus and Gaius,
gaio“Gaius”to, fordative singular1×
3 John 1:1Tos presbuteros Gaio to agapēto, hon mis agapamō en …The elder, To the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth: