noun · masculine
hados
Strong’sG86
Hades
stem had-10 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books4 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.
ᾅδης, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX ehiefly for שְׁאוֹל, also for דּוּמָה, מָוֶת, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G86 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
or ᾅδης, ου, ὁ, Attic dialect; Epic dialect Ἀΐδης, α and ε; Doric dialect Αΐδας, α, used by Trag., in Lyric poetryand anapaest meter: genitive Αϊδος, dative Αϊδι, Refs 8th c.BC+ only as proper name Refs 8th c.BC+ —εἰν᾽ Αΐδαο δόμοισι in the nether world, Refs 8th c.BC+; frequently εἰν, εἰς Αΐδαο (i.e. δόμοις, δόμους), as Refs 8th c.BC+; Trag. and Attic dialect ἐν Ἅιδου, εἰς Ἅιδου (i.e. οἴκῳ, οἶκον), Refs 5th c.BC+; Ἄϊδόσδε, adverb to the nether world, Refs 8th c.BC+; παρ᾽ Ἅιδῃ, παρ᾽ Ἅιδην, Refs —hence,
2 place of departed spirits, first in NT+8th c.BC+
II after Refs 8th c.BC+, the grave, death, ἀΐδαν λαγχάνειν, δέξασθαι, Refs 5th c.BC+; ᾅδης πόντιος death by sea, Refs 5th c.BC+; ᾅδου πύλη, Astrology texts, region below the Horoscope, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 genitive ᾅδου with nouns in adjectival sense, devilish, θύουσαν ᾅ. μητέρ᾽Refs 5th c.BC+; fatal, deadly, δίκτυον, ξίφη ᾅ., Refs 8th c.BC+ in all forms except ᾱῐδος before vowels; ᾱῐδης Refs 7th 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 | hados3×ᾅδης | hadois |
| object accusative | hadon2×ᾅδην | hadoin |
| direct address vocative | hador | hadoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | hadou4×ᾅδου | hadoiu |
| to, for dative | hado1×ᾅδῃ | hadoi |
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
hado 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.
10 occurrences, every one of them listed
hados“hades”subjectnominative singular3×
Revelation 6:8… onomem auto tos Thanatos, kai tos hados akolouthate meta autou, kai dōita autoi …… Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were …
Revelation 20:13… auta, kai tos thanatos kai tos hados dōala toin nekroin toin en autoi, …… up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each …
Revelation 20:14kai tos thanatos kai tos hados balila eis tan limnan teu pureu. …Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of …
hadon“hades”objectaccusative singular2×
Acts 2:27… ouk enkatalipasi tan psuchan mu eis hadon, oude dōasi ton hosion su horara …… will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy …
Acts 2:31… tou christou hoti oute enkatalipita eis hadon oute tas sarkas autou horata diafthoran.… that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.
hadou“hades”of, belonging togenitive singular4×
Matthew 11:23… Kafarnaoum, mē heōs ouranou hupsisi? heōs hadou katabainesi; hoti ei en Sodomei genila …… you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were …
Matthew 16:18… oikodomami mu tan ekklēsan, kai pulais hadou ouk katischuali autau;… My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
Luke 10:15… mē heōs ouranou hupsisi? heōs tou hadou katabainisi.… you will be brought down to Hades!
Revelation 1:18… tain kleidain tou thanatou kai tou hadou.… the keys of Death and of Hades.
hado“hades”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 16:23kai en to hado epararantos toin ofthalmoin autou, huparcharōntos en …In Hades, where he was in torment, he …