noun · feminine
helladas
Strong’sG1671
Hellas, Greece
stem hellad-once in the New Testament1 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.
Ἑλλάς, -άδος, ἡ
[in LXX: Is 66:19, Ez 27:13 (יָוָן), I Mac 1:1 8:9 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1671 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhel-las'
Hellas (or Greece), a country of Europe
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King JamesGreece.
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
2. that part of Thessaly in which the Myrmidons dwelt , also called Phthiotis, [8th/7th c.BC]
3. Northern Greece , as opposite to Peloponnesus, [8th/7th c.BC]
4. later, the name for Greece , from the South to Epirus and Thessaly inclusively, [8th/7th c.BC, Refs 5th c.BC], etc.
5. as adjective with a fem. Substantive Hellenic, Greek , Refs 5th c.BC, etc. (Middle Liddel)
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 | helladas | helladais |
| object accusative | helladan1×Ἑλλάδα | helladain |
| direct address vocative | helladar | helladair |
| of, belonging to genitive | helladau | helladaiu |
| to, for dative | hellada | helladai |
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
hellada 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
helladan“Greece”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 20:2… autoin logo pollo erchata eis tan Helladan… words of encouragement, he arrived in Greece,