noun · masculine
kaiafos
Strong’sG2533
Caiaphas
stem kaiaf-9 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 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.
Καιάφας (T, Καϊ-), -α ὁ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2533 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkah-ee-af'-as
the dell; Caiaphas (i.e. Cajepha), an Israelite
Fromof Chaldee origin;
King JamesCaiaphas.
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
Caiaphas (on the name, see Exp. Times, x, 185):
Καΐφας, for Καιάφας, which see:
(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 | kaiafos3×Καϊάφας | kaiafois |
| object accusative | kaiafon2×Καϊάφαν | kaiafoin |
| direct address vocative | kaiafor | kaiafoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kaiafou4×Καϊάφα | kaiafoiu |
| to, for dative | kaiafo | kaiafoi |
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
kaiafo 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.
9 occurrences, every one of them listed
kaiafos“Caiaphas”subjectnominative singular3×
John 11:49henos de tinos ek autoiu Kaiafos, archierevos arōntos tou eniautou ekeinou, legata …But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year …
John 18:14ate de Kaiafos tos sumbouleuarantos toi Ioudaioi hoti sumferatō …Caiaphas was the one who had advised …
Acts 4:6kai Hannos tos archierevos kai Kaiafos kai Iōannos kai Alexandros kai hosois …along with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and many others from …
kaiafon“Caiaphas”objectaccusative singular2×
Matthew 26:57… de kratarantois ton Iēsun apagala pros Kaiafon ton archierevon, hopou tois grammatevois kai …… Him away to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes …
John 18:24… oun auton tos Hannos dorēnton pros Kaiafon ton archierevon.… Annas sent Him, still bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.
kaiafou“Caiaphas”of, belonging togenitive singular4×
Matthew 26:3… tan aulan tou archierevou tou legorōntou Kaiafou,… the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
Luke 3:2epi archierevou Hannou kai Kaiafou, geneta rēmem theou epi Iōannon ton …… the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to …
John 18:13… Hannon prōtem; ate gar pentheros tou Kaiafou, hos ate archierevos tou eniautou ekeinou;… Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.
John 18:28Agalō oun ton Iēsun apo tou Kaiafou eis tem praitōriem; ate de prōi; …Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it …