noun · feminine
kaisareias
Strong’sG2542
Caesarea
stem kaisarei-17 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
Καισάρεια is a place name, Caesarea 1234, referring to two different cities in Palestine 2.
One is Caesarea Philippi, located at the foot of Lebanon 13; the other is Caesarea of Palestine, situated on the sea-coast 13.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Καισαρία (Rec. -άρεια), -ας, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2542 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkahee-sar'-i-a
Cæsaria, the name of two places in Palestine
Fromfrom G2541;
King JamesCæsarea.
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
Cæsarea;
__1. Cæsarea Philippi, at the foot of Lebanon:
__2. Cæsarea of Palestine, on the sea-coast:
(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 | kaisareias | kaisareiais |
| object accusative | kaisareian10×Καισάρειαν | kaisareiain |
| direct address vocative | kaisareiar | kaisareiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kaisareiau6×Καισαρείας | kaisareiaiu |
| to, for dative | kaisareia1×Καισαρείᾳ | kaisareiai |
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
kaisareia 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.
17 occurrences, every one of them listed
kaisareian“Caesarea”objectaccusative singular10×
Acts 8:40… pantain heōs teu erchara auton eis Kaisareian.… the towns until he came to Caesarea.
Acts 9:30… de tois adelfois katagala auton eis Kaisareian kai exapostelala auton eis Tarsan.… this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
Acts 10:24ta de epaurion eiserchata eis tan Kaisareian. tos de Kornēlios ate prosdokarōntos autoin …The following day he arrived in Caesarea, where Cornelius was expecting them and …
Acts 12:19… kai katercharantos apo tau Ioudaiau eis Kaisareian diatribate.… he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.
Acts 18:22kai katercharantos eis Kaisareian, anabainarantos kai aspazerantos tan ekklēsan, katabainata …When Paul had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the …
Acts 21:8ta de epaurion exercharantois erchana eis Kaisareian, kai eisercharantois eis ton oikon Filippou …… next day, we went on to Caesarea and stayed at the home of …
Acts 23:33hotinois eisercharantois eis tan Kaisareian kai anadōarantois tan epistolan to hēgemono …When the horsemen arrived in Caesarea, they delivered the letter to the …
Acts 25:4… Fēstos apokrinita tērorō ton Paulon eis Kaisareian, heauton de mellarō en tache ekporeuorō;… replied, “Paul is being held in Caesarea, and I myself am going there …
Acts 25:6… polloterain oktō ē deka, katabainarantos eis Kaisareian, ta epaurion kathizarantos epi teu bēmeu …… with them, Festus went down to Caesarea. The next day he sat on …
Acts 25:13… tos basilevos kai Bernikas katantala eis Kaisareian aspazerantois ton Fēston.… Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.
kaisareiau“Caesarea”of, belonging togenitive singular6×
Matthew 16:13… de tos Iēsus eis teim mereim Kaisareiau tau Filippou erōtate toin mathētoin autou …… Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, He questioned His disciples: “Who …
Mark 8:27… tois mathētois autou eis tain kōmain Kaisareiau tau Filippou; kai en ta hoda …… went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way, He questioned …
Acts 11:11… oikian en ha ane, apostelorēntois apo Kaisareiau pros min.… three men sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I …
Acts 21:16sunerchala de kai toiu mathētoiu apo Kaisareiau sun ni, agarōntois para ho xenizineia …Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us, and they took us …
Acts 23:23… Hetoimazavar stratiōtoin diakosioi hopōs poreuileia heōs Kaisareiau, kai hippeusoin hebdomēkonta kai dexiolaboin diakosioi, …… two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the …
Acts 25:1… treis hēmerain anabainata eis Hierosolumeim apo Kaisareiau,… the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,
kaisareia“Caesarea”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 10:1Andros de tinos en Kaisareia onome Kornēlios, hekatontarchēos ek speirau tau …At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius …