noun · feminine
kandakas
GreekΚανδάκη (kandakē)
Strong’sG2582
Candace
stem kandak-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
Κανδάκη, -ης, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2582 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkan-dak'-ay
Candacè, an Egyptian queen
Fromof foreign origin;
King JamesCandace.
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 case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kandakas | kandakais |
| object accusative | kandakan | kandakain |
| direct address vocative | kandakar | kandakair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kandakau1×Κανδάκης | kandakaiu |
| to, for dative | kandaka | kandakai |
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
kandaka 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
kandakau“Candace”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 8:27“Candace”kai anistanaratos poreuita, kai idou anēros Aithiopsos eunouchos dunastos Kandakau basilisau Aithiopsoiu, hos ate epi pantau tau gazau autau, hos erchatelē proskunaritos eis Ierousalēm,So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,