noun · feminine

kolōnias

Greekκολωνία (kolōnia)

Strong’sG2862

a colony, garrison city

stem kolōni-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

roman colony1×

What it means

*† κολωνία, (Rec. -ώνια), -ας, ἡ

(< Lat. colonia),

a colony: Ac 16:12 (v. Lft., Phi., 50 f.).†

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.

Every form

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

kolōnistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

kolōnias“roman colony”subjectnominative singular1×

Acts 16:12“roman colony”kakeithen eis Filippoin, hotinas atō prōtas tau meriau Makedoniau politas, kolōnias. ane de en houta ta polita diatribarōtois hēmerain tinain.From there we went to the Roman colony of Philippi, the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days.