noun · masculine
kurēnaios
Strong’sG2956
belonging to Cyrene, a Cyrenaean
stem kurēnai-6 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books4 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.
Κυρηναῖος, -α, -ον
(< Κυρήνη),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2956 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkoo-ray-nah'-yos
i.e. Cyrenæan, i.e. inhabitant of Cyrene
Fromfrom G2957;
King Jamesof Cyrene, Cyrenian.
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
(Κυρήνη),
of Cyrene, a Cyrenæan:
(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 | kurēnaios1×Κυρηναῖος | kurēnaiois1×Κυρηναῖοι |
| object accusative | kurēnaion3×Κυρηναῖον | kurēnaioin |
| direct address vocative | kurēnaior | kurēnaioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kurēnaiou | kurēnaioiu1×Κυρηναίων |
| to, for dative | kurēnaio | kurēnaioi |
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
kurēnaio 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.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
kurēnaios“of Cyrene”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 13:1… tos kalorōntos Nigeros, kai Loukios tos Kurēnaios, Manaēn tē Hērōdou tou tetraarchou suntrofos …… teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen ( who had been brought up …
kurēnaion“Cyrene”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 27:32Exerchorōntois de heuriskala anthrōpon Kurēnaion onome Simōnon; houton angareuala hina airateia …… way they found a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him …
Mark 15:21Kai angareualō paragarōnton tinon Simōnon Kurēnaion erchorōnton apo agrou, ton patron Alexandrou …Now Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus …
Luke 23:26… hōs apagala auton, epilaberantois Simōnon tinon Kurēnaion erchorōnton apo agrou epitithala auto ton …… Him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene on his way in from the …
kurēnaiois“Cyrene”subjectnominative plural1×
Acts 11:20… tinois ek autoiu androis Kupriois kai Kurēnaiois, hotinois ercharantois eis Antiocheian lalale kai …… of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began speaking …
kurēnaioiu“Cyrenians”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Acts 6:9… tau sunagōgau tau legorōntau Libertinoiu kai Kurēnaioiu kai Alexandrevoiu kai toiu apo Kilikiau …… the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and men from the provinces …