noun · masculine
kitharōdos
Strong’sG2790
a harpist
stem kitharōd-2 times in the New Testament1 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.
* κιθαρ-ωδός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< κιθάρα, ἀοιδός, a singer)
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2790 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(κιθάρα, ἀοιδός) one who plays and sings to the cithara, Refs 5th c.BC+
II a fish, found in the Red Sea, with body striped like the strings of a lyre, 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.
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 | kitharōdos | kitharōdois |
| object accusative | kitharōdon | kitharōdoin |
| direct address vocative | kitharōdor | kitharōdoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kitharōdou | kitharōdoiu2×κιθαρῳδῶν |
| to, for dative | kitharōdo | kitharōdoi |
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
kitharōdo 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
kitharōdoiu“harpists”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Revelation 14:2… kai tas fōnas han akouama hōs kitharōdoiu kitharizarōntoiu en tai kitharai autoiu.… the sound I heard was like harpists strumming their harps.
Revelation 18:22kai fōnas kitharōdoiu kai mousikoiu kai aulētoiu kai salpistoiu …And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and …