gerasēnos

Strong’sG1086

from Gerasene

stem gerasēn-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.

Γεργασηνός, -ή, -όν,

Gerasene, of Gerasa, not the G. of Decapolis, 30 m. S.E. of the Lake, but a Gerasa or Gergesa (perh. the mod. Kersa) on E. shore; as subst., pl. οἱ Γ., Mk 5:1, Lk 8:26, 37 (Γεργεσηνῶν, RV, mg. 1; Γαδαρηνῶν, RV, mg. 2).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1086 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidgher-ghes-ay-nos'

a Gergesene (i.e. Girgashite) or one of the aborigines of Palestine

Fromof Hebrew origin ();

King JamesGergesene.

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

Γεργασηνός, -ή, -όν,
Gerasene, of Gerasa, not the G. of Decapolis, 30 m. S.E. of the Lake, but a Gerasa or Gergesa (perh. the mod. Kersa) on E. shore; as subst., pl. οἱ Γ., Mrk.5:1, Luk.8:26, 37 (Γεργεσηνῶν, RV, mg. 1; Γαδαρηνῶν, RV, mg. 2).†
(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.

gerasenes3×

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	gerasēnos	gerasēnas	gerasēnem	gerasēnois	gerasēnais	gerasēneim
object accusative	gerasēnon	gerasēnan		gerasēnoin	gerasēnain
direct address vocative	gerasēnor	gerasēnar		gerasēnoir	gerasēnair
of, belonging to genitive	gerasēnou	gerasēnau	gerasēneu	gerasēnoiu3×Γερασηνῶν	gerasēnaiu	gerasēneiu
to, for dative	gerasēno	gerasēna	gerasēne	gerasēnoi	gerasēnai	gerasēnei

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

gerasēnstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

gerasēn 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.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

gerasēnoiu“gerasenes”of, belonging togenitive plural3×

Mark 5:1… tau thalassau eis tan chōran toiu Gerasēnoiu.… arrived in the region of the Gerasenes.

Luke 8:26Kai kataplala eis tan chōran toiu Gerasēnoiu, hotinas atō antipera tau Galilaiau.… sailed to the region of the Gerasenes, across the lake from Galilee.

Luke 8:37… hapantem tem plēthem tau perichōrau toiu Gerasēnoiu aperchara apo autoiu, hoti fobo mego …… people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to depart from them …