noun · masculine
ioustos
Strong’sG2459
Justus
stem ioust-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
Ἰοῦστος, -ου, ὁ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2459 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidee-ooce'-tos
Justus, the name of three Christian
Fromof Latin origin ("just");
King JamesJustus.
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
Justus, the surname of,
__1. Joseph Barsabbas:
__2. Titus, of Corinth:
__3. Jesus, a Christian of Rome:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
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 | ioustos2×Ἰοῦστος | ioustois |
| object accusative | iouston | ioustoin |
| direct address vocative | ioustor | ioustoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | ioustou1×Ἰούστου | ioustoiu |
| to, for dative | iousto | ioustoi |
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
iousto 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
ioustos“Justus”subjectnominative singular2×
Acts 1:23… Iōsēf ton kalorōnton Barsabbon, hos epikalita Ioustos, kai Maththion.… Joseph called Barsabbas (also known as Justus) and Matthias.
Colossians 4:11kai Iēsus tos legorōntos Ioustos, tois arōntois ek peritomau, houtois monois …Jesus, who is called Justus, also sends greetings. These are the …
ioustou“Justus”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 18:7… eiserchata eis oikian tinou onome Titiou Ioustou seborōntou ton theon, hou tas oikias …… door to the house of Titus Justus, a worshiper of God.