noun · masculine
krēskos
Strong’sG2913
Crescens
stem krēsk-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.
Κρήσκης, -εντος (Bl., § 10, 4), ὁ (Lat.),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2913 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkrace'-kace
growing; Cresces (i.e. Crescens), a Christian
Fromof Latin origin;
King JamesCrescens.
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
Crescens:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
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 | krēskos1×Κρήσκης | krēskois |
| object accusative | krēskon | krēskoin |
| direct address vocative | krēskor | krēskoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | krēskou | krēskoiu |
| to, for dative | krēsko | krēskoi |
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
krēsko 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
krēskos“Crescens”subjectnominative singular1×
2 Timothy 4:10… nun aiōnon, kai poreuita eis Thessalonikan, Krēskos eis Galatian, Titos eis Dalmatian;… deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus …