noun · feminine
kilikias
Strong’sG2791
Cilicia
stem kiliki-8 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.
Κιλικία, -ας, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2791 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkil-ik-ee'-ah
Cilicia, a region of Asia Minor
Fromprobably of foreign origin;
King JamesCilicia.
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
Cilicia, a province of Asia Minor:
(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 | kilikias | kilikiais |
| object accusative | kilikian3×Κιλικίαν | kilikiain |
| direct address vocative | kilikiar | kilikiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kilikiau5×Κιλικίας | kilikiaiu |
| to, for dative | kilikia | kilikiai |
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
kilikia 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.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
kilikian“Cilicia”objectaccusative singular3×
Acts 15:23… kata tan Antiocheian kai Surian kai Kilikian adelfoi toi ek ethneiu chairarō.… the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.
Acts 15:41dierchote de tan Surian kai tan Kilikian epistērizarōntos tain ekklēsain.And he traveled through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
Acts 27:5tem tē pelagem tem kata tan Kilikian kai Pamfulian diaplarantois katerchana eis Mureim …… open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra …
kilikiau“Cilicia”of, belonging togenitive singular5×
Acts 6:9… Kurēnaioiu kai Alexandrevoiu kai toiu apo Kilikiau kai Asiau suzētarōntois to Stefano,… and men from the provinces of Cilicia and Asia. They disputed with Stephen,
Acts 21:39… anthrōpos men amō Ioudaios, Tarsevos tau Kilikiau, ouk asēmau polau politos; domō de …… am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city …
Acts 22:3… andros Ioudaios, gennorēntos en Tarsa tau Kilikiau, anatreforēntos de en ta pola houta …… a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I …
Acts 23:34… eparcheiau atō kai punthanerantos hoti apo Kilikiau,… from. Learning that he was from Cilicia,
Galatians 1:21… teim klimeim tau Suriau kai tau Kilikiau.… to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.