noun · feminine
kupras
Strong’sG2954
Cyprus
stem kupr-5 times in the New Testament2 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.
Κύπρος, -ου, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2954 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkoo'-pros
Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean
Fromof uncertain origin;
King JamesCyprus.
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 | kupras | kuprais |
| object accusative | kupran4×Κύπρον | kuprain |
| direct address vocative | kuprar | kuprair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kuprau1×Κύπρου | kupraiu |
| to, for dative | kupra | kuprai |
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
kupra 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
kupran“Cyprus”objectaccusative singular4×
Acts 13:4… eis Seleukeian, ekeithen tē apoplala eis Kupran,… Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.
Acts 15:39… Barnabon paralabaranton ton Markon ekplara eis Kupran,… Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Cyprus,
Acts 21:3anafanarantois de tan Kupran kai kataleiparantois autan euōnuman plane eis …After sighting Cyprus and passing south of it, we …
Acts 27:4kakeithen anagirantois hupoplana tan Kupran dia tem toin anemoin arō enantioin,… we sailed to the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.
kuprau“Cyprus”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 11:19… epi Stefano dierchala heōs Foinikau kai Kuprau kai Antiocheiau mēdeno lalarōntois ton logon …… Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message only …