adjective
galilaios
Strong’sG1057
a Galilean
stem galilai-11 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books6 of 26 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.
Γαλιλαῖος, -αία, -αῖον,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1057 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidgal-ee-lah'-yos
Galilean or belonging to Galilea
Fromfrom G1056;
King JamesGalilean, of Galilee.
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
Galilæan:
(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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | galilaios4×Γαλιλαῖος | galilaias | galilaiem | galilaiois3×Γαλιλαῖοι | galilaiais | galilaieim |
| object accusative | galilaion | galilaian | galilaioin1×Γαλιλαίους | galilaiain | ||
| direct address vocative | galilaior | galilaiar | galilaioir1×Γαλιλαῖοι | galilaiair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | galilaiou1×Γαλιλαίου | galilaiau | galilaieu | galilaioiu1×Γαλιλαίων | galilaiaiu | galilaieiu |
| to, for dative | galilaio | galilaia | galilaie | galilaioi | galilaiai | galilaiei |
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
galilai 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.
11 occurrences, every one of them listed
galilaios“galilean”subjectnominative singular4×
Mark 14:70… Alēthōs ek autoiu asō, kai gar Galilaios asō kai tas lalias su homoiazatō;… them, for you too are a Galilean.”
Luke 22:59… houtos meta autou ate, kai gar Galilaios atō;… Him, for he too is a Galilean.”
Luke 23:6… de akouarantos eperōtata ei tos anthrōpos Galilaios atō,… asked if the man was a Galilean.
Acts 5:37meta houton anastēata Ioudos tos Galilaios en tai hēmerai tau apografau kai …After him, Judas the Galilean appeared in the days of the …
galilaiou“galilean”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Matthew 26:69… Kai sis ase meta Iēsu tou Galilaiou;… You also were with Jesus the Galilean,” she said.
galilaiois“galileans”subjectnominative plural3×
Luke 13:2… apokrinirantos legata autoi; Dokavō hoti tois Galilaiois houtois hamartōlois para pantoin toin Galilaioin …… replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the …
John 4:45… eis tan Galilaian, dechela auton tois Galilaiois, panteim horarēntois hoseim poiata en Hierosolumei …Yet when He arrived, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all …
Acts 2:7… idou pantois houtois alō tois lalarōntois Galilaiois?… not all these who are speaking Galileans?
galilaioin“galileans”objectaccusative plural1×
Luke 13:2… Galilaiois houtois hamartōlois para pantoin toin Galilaioin genela, hoti houteim paschalē?… worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered this way?
galilaioir“of galilee”direct addressvocative plural1×
Acts 1:11hois kai legala; Androir Galilaioir, tinem stēavē bleparōntois eis ton ouranon? …“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand …
galilaioiu“galileans”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Luke 13:1… to kairo apangelarōntois auto peri toiu Galilaioiu hoiu tem haimem Pilatos migata meta …… those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with …