kurēnios

Strong’sG2958

Quirinius

stem kurēni-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.

Κυρήνιος

(prop. -ίνιος, v. Bl., 13; -ῖνος L, -εῖνος, Tr., WH, mg.), -ου, ὁ,

Quirinus, prop. Quirinius: Lk 2:2.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2958 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkoo-ray'-nee-os

Cyrenius (i.e. Quirinus), a Roman

Fromof Latin origin;

King JamesCyrenius.

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

Κυρήνιος
(prop. -ίνιος, see Bl., 13; -ῖνος L, -εῖνος, Tr., WH, mg.), -ου, ὁ,
Quirinus, prop. Quirinius: Luk.2:2.†
(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.

Quirinius1×

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	kurēnios	kurēniois
object accusative	kurēnion	kurēnioin
direct address vocative	kurēnior	kurēnioir
of, belonging to genitive	kurēniou1×Κυρηνίου	kurēnioiu
to, for dative	kurēnio	kurēnioi

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

kurēnistem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

kurēnio 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

kurēniou“Quirinius”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Luke 2:2… apografas prōtas geneta hēgemoneuarōntou tau Suriau Kurēniou;… first census to take place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.