noun · masculine
krētos
Strong’sG2912
a Cretan
stem krēt-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
Κρής, ὁ, pl., Κρῆτες,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2912 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkrace
a Cretan, i.e. inhabitant of Crete
Fromfrom G2914;
King JamesCrete, Cretian.
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
2. as adjective Cretan , Refs 5th c.BC; also Κρήσιος, η, ον, Refs 5th c.BC, Refs 5th c.BC (Middle Liddel)
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 | krētos | krētois2×Κρῆτες |
| object accusative | krēton | krētoin |
| direct address vocative | krētor | krētoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | krētou | krētoiu |
| to, for dative | krēto | krētoi |
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
krēto 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
krētois“Cretans”subjectnominative plural2×
Acts 2:11Ioudaiois tē kai prosēlutois, Krētois kai Arabois, akouanō lalarōntoiu autoiu tai …both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs— we hear them declaring …
Titus 1:12… tinos ek autoiu, idios autoiu profētos, Krētois aei pseustois, kakoseim thēreim, gastrais argais;… of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy …