noun · masculine
hellēnistos
Strong’sG1675
a Hellenist, Grecian Jew
stem hellēnist-3 times in the New Testament2 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.
*† Ἑλληνιστής, -οῦ, ὁ
(< Ἑλληνίζω, to Hellenize, affect Greek customs),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1675 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhel-lay-nis-tace'
a Hellenist or Greek-speaking Jew
Fromfrom a derivative of G1672;
King JamesGrecian.
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
(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 | hellēnistos | hellēnistois |
| object accusative | hellēniston | hellēnistoin2×Ἑλληνιστάς |
| direct address vocative | hellēnistor | hellēnistoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | hellēnistou | hellēnistoiu1×Ἑλληνιστῶν |
| to, for dative | hellēnisto | hellēnistoi |
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
hellēnisto 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
hellēnistoin“Hellenists”objectaccusative plural2×
Acts 9:29“Hellenists”lalate tē kai suzētate pros toin Hellēnistoin; tois de epicheirale anairara auton.He talked and debated with the Grecian Jews, but they tried to kill him.
Acts 11:20“Hellenists”… eis Antiocheian lalale kai pros toin Hellēnistoin, euangelizorōntois ton kurion Iēsun.… Cyrene, went to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks as well, proclaiming the good news about the Lord Jesus.
hellēnistoiu“Hellenists”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Acts 6:1“Hellenists”… plēthunarōntoiu toiu mathētoiu geneta gongusmos toiu Hellēnistoiu pros toin Hebraioin hoti paratheōrole en …… days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily …