noun
geitonos
Strong’sG1069
a neighbor
stem geiton-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 of 20 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.
γείτων, -ονος, ὁ, ἡ
(< γῆ), [in LXX chiefly for שָׁכֵן;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1069 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidghi'-tone
a neighbour (as adjoining one's ground); by implication, a friend
Fromfrom G1093;
King Jamesneighbour.
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
neighbour, borderer, γείτονες ἠδὲ ἔται Μενελάου Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to σύνοικος, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐκ τῶν γ. or ἐκ γειτόνων from or in the neighbourhood, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν γειτόνων (i.e. οἴκοις) οἰκεῖν Refs 4th c.BC+ to be of like kind, Refs 7th c.BC+
II as adjective, neighbouring, bordering, πόλις, πόντος, Refs; χώρα, πύλαι, ῥοαί, Refs 5th c.BC+; also in Prose, ἡ γ. πόλις Refs 5th c.BC+
III γίτονας (sic)· τὰ δύο αἰδοῖα, Refs 5th 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 | feminine singular | masculine singular | feminine plural | masculine plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | geitonas | geitonos | geitonais | geitonois1×γείτονες |
| object accusative | geitonan | geitonon | geitonain1×γείτονας | geitonoin2×γείτονας |
| direct address vocative | geitonar | geitonor | geitonair | geitonoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | geitonau | geitonou | geitonaiu | geitonoiu |
| to, for dative | geitona | geitono | geitonai | geitonoi |
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
geiton 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
geitonain“neighbors”objectaccusative plural1×
Luke 15:9kai heuriskarantas sunkalatō tain filain kai geitonain legarōntas; Sunchairivar mi hoti heuriskama tan …… she calls together her friends and neighbors to say, ‘Rejoice with me, for …
geitonois“neighbors”subjectnominative plural1×
John 9:8tois oun geitonois kai tois theōrarōntois auton tem proterem …At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen …
geitonoin“neighbors”objectaccusative plural2×
Luke 14:12… su mēde toin sungenoin su mēde geitonoin plousioin, mēpote kai autois antikalaleia sin …… or brothers or relatives or rich neighbors. Otherwise, they may invite you in …
Luke 15:6… oikon sunkalatō toin filoin kai toin geitonoin, legarōntos autoi; Sunchairivar mi hoti heuriskama …… and calls together his friends and neighbors to tell them, ‘Rejoice with me …