noun · feminine
kurēnas
GreekΚυρήνη (kurēnē)
Strong’sG2957
Cyrene
stem kurēn-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
Κυρήνη, -ης, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2957 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkoo-ray'-nay
Cyrene, a region of Africa
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King JamesCyrene.
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 | kurēnas | kurēnais |
| object accusative | kurēnan1×Κυρήνην | kurēnain |
| direct address vocative | kurēnar | kurēnair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kurēnau | kurēnaiu |
| to, for dative | kurēna | kurēnai |
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
kurēna 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
kurēnan“Cyrene”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 2:10“Cyrene”Frugian tē kai Pamfulian, Aiguptan kai teim mereim tau Libuau tau kata Kurēnan, kai tois epidēmarōtois Rōmaiois,Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome,