noun · feminine
kubernēsias
Strong’sG2941
governing, government
stem kubernēsi-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.
κυβέρνησις, -εως, ἡ
(< κυβερνάω, Lat. gubernare, to guide), [in LXX: Pr 1:5 11:14 24:6 (תַּחְבֻּלוֹת)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2941 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkoo-ber'-nay-sis
pilotage, i.e. (figuratively) directorship (in the church)
Fromfrom κυβερνάω (of Latin origin, to steer);
King Jamesgovernment.
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
Doric dialect κῠβέρν-ᾱσις, εως, ἡ, steering, pilotage, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, government, πολίων of cities, NT+5th c.BC+; θεοῦ by a god, Refs 1st c.AD+
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 | kubernēsias | kubernēsiais |
| object accusative | kubernēsian | kubernēsiain1×κυβερνήσεις |
| direct address vocative | kubernēsiar | kubernēsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kubernēsiau | kubernēsiaiu |
| to, for dative | kubernēsia | kubernēsiai |
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
kubernēsia 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
kubernēsiain“administrations”objectaccusative plural1×
1 Corinthians 12:28“administrations”… epeita dunamiain, epeita charismeim iameiu, antilēmpsiain, kubernēsiain, geneim glōssaiu.… third teachers, then workers of miracles, and those with gifts of healing, helping, administration, and various tongues.