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noun · feminine

hierapolias

GreekἹεράπολις (hierapolis)

Strong’sG2404

Hierapolis

stem hierapoli-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

Hierapolis

What it means

Ἱεράπολις (WH, Ἱερὰ Πόλις), -εως, ἡ,

Hierapolis: a city in the Lycus valley in the Province of Asia: Col 4:13.†

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

Strong’s G2404 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhee-er-ap'-ol-is

holy city; Hierapolis, a place in Asia Minor

Fromfrom G2413 and G4172;

King JamesHierapolis.

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativehierapoliashierapoliais
object accusativehierapolianhierapoliain
direct address vocativehierapoliarhierapoliair
of, belonging to genitivehierapoliauhierapoliaiu
to, for dativehierapoliaἹεραπόλειhierapoliai

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
hierapolistem+agender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

hierapolia 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

hierapolia“Hierapolis”to, fordative singular

Colossians 4:13“Hierapolis”marturamō gar auto hoti echatō pollon ponon huper vu kai toiu en Laodikeia kai toiu en Hierapolia.For I testify about him that he goes to great pains for you and for those at Laodicea and Hierapolis.