kathedras

Strong’sG2515

a seat, chair

stem kathedr-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.

καθ-έδρα, -ας, ἡ

(< κατά, + ἔδρα, a seat), [in LXX for מוֹשָׁב and cogn. forms;]

a chair, seat: Mt 21:12, Mk 11:15; of teachers, Mt 23:2.†

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

Strong’s G2515 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkath-ed'-rah

a bench (literally or figuratively)

Fromfrom G2596 and the same as G1476;

King Jamesseat.

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

καθέδρ-α, ἡ,
seat, κ. τοῦ λαγῶ a hare's seat or form, Refs 5th c.BC+; chair, Refs 1st c.AD+; opposed to κλίνη, Refs 1st c.AD+; of rowers' seats, Refs 2nd c.BC+; κ. λοιμῶν, πρεσβυτέρων, LXX
2 sitting part, posteriors, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 base of a column, Refs 1st c.BC+
II sitting posture, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 sitting idle, inaction, ἐν τῇ καθέδρᾳ Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 session, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III chair of a teacher, ἐπὶ τῆς Μωυσέως κ. ἐκάθισαν NT; professorial chair, ἐπὶ τῆς κ. σοφιστής Refs 3rd c.AD+
IV imperial throne, τὸν ἐπὶ τῇ κ. τοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος, the Emperor's representative, Refs 2nd c.AD+

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.

seats2×seat1×

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	kathedras	kathedrais
object accusative	kathedran	kathedrain2×καθέδρας
direct address vocative	kathedrar	kathedrair
of, belonging to genitive	kathedrau1×καθέδρας	kathedraiu
to, for dative	kathedra	kathedrai

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

kathedrstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

kathedra 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

kathedrau“seat”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Matthew 23:2legarōntos; Epi tau Mōusou kathedrau kathizala tois grammatevois kai tois Farisaiois.… scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.

kathedrain“seats”objectaccusative plural2×

Matthew 21:12… trapezain toiu kollubistoiu katastrefata kai tain kathedrain toiu pōlarōntoiu tain peristerain,… of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.

Mark 11:15… tain trapezain toiu kollubistoiu kai tain kathedrain toiu pōlarōntoiu tain peristerain katastrefata… of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.