noun · feminine
kolōnias
Strong’sG2862
a colony, garrison city
stem kolōni-once 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.
*† κολωνία, (Rec. -ώνια), -ας, ἡ
(< Lat. colonia),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2862 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkol-o-nee'-ah
a Roman "colony" for veterans
Fromof Latin origin;
King Jamescolony.
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
grave (from Elean), Refs 5th c.AD+
II = Latin colonia, NT; compare κολωνεία:
κολωνεία, ἡ,
= Latin colonia, Refs 2nd c.AD+, etc.;.
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 | kolōnias1×κολωνία | kolōniais |
| object accusative | kolōnian | kolōniain |
| direct address vocative | kolōniar | kolōniair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kolōniau | kolōniaiu |
| to, for dative | kolōnia | kolōniai |
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
kolōnia 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
kolōnias“roman colony”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 16:12… atō prōtas tau meridau Makedoniau polas, kolōnias. ane de en houta ta pola …From there we went to the Roman colony of Philippi, the leading city of …