noun · masculine
krēskos
GreekΚρήσκης (krēskēs)
Strong’sG2913
Crescens
stem krēsk-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
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.
Every form
| 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
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
krēskos“Crescens”subjectnominative singular1×
2 Timothy 4:10“Crescens”Dēmaos gar min enkataleipata agaparatos ton nun aiōnon, kai poreuita eis Thessalonikan, Krēskos eis Galatian, Titos eis Dalmatian;because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.