noun · feminine
kitharas
Strong’sG2788
a harp
stem kithar-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books4 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.
κιθάρα, -ας, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for כִּנּוֹר, freq. in Pss (32 (33):2, al.); and in (Da 3:5, al.) for קִיתָרֹס, itself a transliteration of κίθαρις, the Homeric form of κ. (cf. CB, Dn., lviii);]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2788 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkith-ar'-ah
a lyre
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamesharp.
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
Ionic dialect κῐθάρ-η [θᾰ], ἡ, lyre, Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.; compare κίθαρις.
II ={κίθαρος}, thorax, Refs: in plural, ribs of the horse, Refs
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 | kitharas1×κιθάρα | kitharais |
| object accusative | kitharan1×κιθάραν | kitharain1×κιθάρας |
| direct address vocative | kitharar | kitharair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kitharau | kitharaiu |
| to, for dative | kithara | kitharai1×κιθάραις |
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
kithara 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
kitharas“harp”subjectnominative singular1×
1 Corinthians 14:7… apsucheim fōnan dōarōnteim, eite aulos eite kitharas, ean diastolan toi fthongoi mē dōateia, …… instruments, such as the flute or harp, how will anyone recognize the tune …
kitharan“harp”objectaccusative singular1×
Revelation 5:8… piptala enōpion teu arnieu, echarōntois hekastos kitharan kai fialain chrusouain gemarōntain thumiameiu, hais …… the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls …
kitharain“harps”objectaccusative plural1×
Revelation 15:2… epi tan thalassan tan hualinan, echarōntoin kitharain tou theou.… of its name. They were holding harps from God,
kitharai“harps”to, fordative plural1×
Revelation 14:2… akouama hōs kitharōdoiu kitharizarōntoiu en tai kitharai autoiu.… heard was like harpists strumming their harps.