noun · feminine
krētas
Strong’sG2914
Crete
stem krēt-5 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 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.
Κρήτη, -ης, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2914 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkray'-tay
Crete, an island in the Mediterranean
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King JamesCrete.
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
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 | krētas | krētais |
| object accusative | krētan2×Κρήτην | krētain |
| direct address vocative | krētar | krētair |
| of, belonging to genitive | krētau2×Κρήτης | krētaiu |
| to, for dative | krēta1×Κρήτῃ | krētai |
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
krēta 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
krētan“Crete”objectaccusative singular2×
Acts 27:7… proseasarōntou nin tou anemou, hupoplana tan Krētan kata Salmōnan,… we sailed to the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.
Acts 27:13… prothesiau kratarē airarantois asson paralegole tan Krētan.… sailed along, hugging the coast of Crete.
krētau“Crete”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Acts 27:12… katantarantois eis Foinixon paracheimazara, limenon tau Krētau bleparōnton kata libon kai kata chōron.… there. Phoenix was a harbor in Crete facing both southwest and northwest.
Acts 27:21… peitharcharantoin mi mē anagorō apo tau Krētau kerdainara tē tan hubrian houtan kai …… my advice not to sail from Crete. Then you would have averted this …
krēta“Crete”to, fordative singular1×
Titus 1:5Houteu charin apolipama sin en Krēta hina teim leiparōnteim epidiortheseia, kai katastēaseia …The reason I left you in Crete was that you would set in …