noun · masculine
kenturiōnos
Strong’sG2760
a centurion
stem kenturiōn-3 times in the New Testament3 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.
*† κεντυρίων, -ωνος, ὁ (Lat. centurio);
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2760 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidken-too-ree'-ohn
a centurion, i.e. captain of one hundred soldiers
Fromof Latin origin;
King Jamescenturion.
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
= Latin centurio, Refs:—also κεντουρίων, Refs 6th c.AD+; κεντυρίων, NT
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 | kenturiōnos1×κεντυρίων | kenturiōnois |
| object accusative | kenturiōnon1×κεντυρίωνα | kenturiōnoin |
| direct address vocative | kenturiōnor | kenturiōnoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kenturiōnou1×κεντυρίωνος | kenturiōnoiu |
| to, for dative | kenturiōno | kenturiōnoi |
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
kenturiōno 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
kenturiōnos“centurion”subjectnominative singular1×
Mark 15:39horarantos de tos kenturiōnos tos parastēarēntos ek enantiau autou hoti …When the centurion standing there in front of Jesus …
kenturiōnon“centurion”objectaccusative singular1×
Mark 15:44… ei ēdē thnēskatē, kai proskalerantos ton kenturiōnon eperōtata auton ei palai apothnēskata;… already dead, so he summoned the centurion to ask if this was so.
kenturiōnou“centurion”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Mark 15:45kai gnōskarantos apo tou kenturiōnou dōreta tem ptōmem to Iōsēf.… Pilate had confirmed it with the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.