noun · feminine
kenchreas
Strong’sG2747
Cenchreae
stem kenchre-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
Κεγχρεαί, v.s. Κενχρεαί.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2747 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkeng-khreh-a'-hee
Cenchreæ, a port of Corinth
Fromprobably from kegchros (millet);
King JamesCencrea.
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
Cenchreæ, a port of Corinth:
(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 | kenchreas | kenchreais |
| object accusative | kenchrean | kenchreain |
| direct address vocative | kenchrear | kenchreair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kenchreau | kenchreaiu |
| to, for dative | kenchrea | kenchreai2×Κεγχρεαῖς |
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
kenchrea 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
kenchreai“Cenchrea”to, fordative plural2×
Acts 18:18… auto Priskillas kai Akulos, keirerantos en Kenchreai tan kefalan, echate gar euchan.… He had his head shaved in Cenchrea to keep a vow he had …
Romans 16:1… kai diakonan tau ekklēsau tau en Kenchreai,… a servant of the church in Cenchrea.