noun
legiōnos
Strong’sG3003
a legion, very large number
stem legiōn-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 20 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.
*† λεγιών (Rec. -εών), -ῶνος, ἡ, (Lat. legio),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3003 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidleg-eh-ohn'
a "legion", i.e. Roman regiment (figuratively)
Fromof Latin origin;
King Jameslegion.
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
= Latin legio, NT+1st c.AD+:—frequently written λεγιών, Refs: —hence λεγιονάριος, ὁ, Refs
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 | feminine singular | masculine singular | feminine plural | masculine plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | legiōnas2×Λεγιὼν | legiōnos | legiōnais | legiōnois |
| object accusative | legiōnan | legiōnon1×λεγιῶνα | legiōnain1×λεγιῶνας | legiōnoin |
| direct address vocative | legiōnar | legiōnor | legiōnair | legiōnoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | legiōnau | legiōnou | legiōnaiu | legiōnoiu |
| to, for dative | legiōna | legiōno | legiōnai | legiōnoi |
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
legiōn 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
legiōnas“legion”subjectnominative singular2×
Mark 5:9… Tinem onomem si? kai legatō auto; Legiōnas onomem mi, hoti pollois anō;… name?” Jesus asked. “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”
Luke 8:30… si onomem atō? tos de legata; Legiōnas, hoti eiserchata daimoneim polleim eis auton.“What is your name?” Jesus asked. “Legion,” he replied, because many demons had …
legiōnon“legion”objectaccusative singular1×
Mark 5:15… himatizorēnton kai sōfronarōnton, ton echarēnton ton legiōnon, kai fobila.… who had been possessed by the legion of demons sitting there, clothed and …
legiōnain“legions”objectaccusative plural1×
Matthew 26:53… kai parastēati mi arti pollotereim dōdeka legiōnain angeloiu?… at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?