noun · feminine
laodikeias
Strong’sG2993
Laodicea
stem laodikei-6 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 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.
Λαοδικία (Rec. -εία), -ας, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2993 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Laodicea, a city on the Lycus in Phrygia:
(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 | laodikeias | laodikeiais |
| object accusative | laodikeian1×Λαοδίκειαν | laodikeiain |
| direct address vocative | laodikeiar | laodikeiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | laodikeiau1×Λαοδικείας | laodikeiaiu |
| to, for dative | laodikeia4×Λαοδικείᾳ | laodikeiai |
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
laodikeia 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
laodikeian“Laodicea”objectaccusative singular1×
Revelation 1:11… Sardiain kai eis Filadelfeian kai eis Laodikeian.… Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
laodikeiau“Laodicea”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Colossians 4:16… Laodikevoiu ekklēsa anagnōskiteia, kai tan ek Laodikeiau hina kai vis anagnōskaveia.… in turn read the letter from Laodicea.
laodikeia“Laodicea”to, fordative singular4×
Colossians 2:1… echamō huper vu kai toiu en Laodikeia kai hosois ouk horalē tem prosōpem …… for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not …
Colossians 4:13… ponon huper vu kai toiu en Laodikeia kai toiu en Hierapolia.… for you and for those at Laodicea and Hierapolis.
Colossians 4:15aspazevar toin en Laodikeia adelfoin kai Numfaan kai tan kata …Greet the brothers in Laodicea, as well as Nympha and the …
Revelation 3:14Kai to angelo tau en Laodikeia ekklēsau grafasar; Hōdeim legatō tos Amēn, …… the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of …