noun · feminine
hellēnias
GreekἙλληνίς (hellēnis)
Strong’sG1674
a female Greek
stem hellēni-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
Ἑλληνίς
[in LXX: II Mac 6:8 A *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1674 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhel-lay-nis'
a Grecian (i.e. non-Jewish) woman
Fromfeminine of G1672;
King JamesGreek.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | hellēnias1×Ἑλληνίς | hellēniais |
| object accusative | hellēnian | hellēniain |
| direct address vocative | hellēniar | hellēniair |
| of, belonging to genitive | hellēniau | hellēniaiu1×Ἑλληνίδων |
| to, for dative | hellēnia | hellēniai |
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
hellēnia 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
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
hellēnias“Gentile”subjectnominative singular1×
Mark 7:26“Gentile”tas de gunaikas ate Hellēnias, Surofoinikissas te gene; kai erōtate auton hina tem daimonem ekballateia ek tau thugatērau autau.Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
hellēniaiu“Greek”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Acts 17:12“Greek”pollois men oun ek autoiu pisteuala, kai taiu Hellēniaiu gunaikaiu taiu euschēmōnaiu kai anēroiu ouk oligois.As a result, many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.