noun · masculine
levios
Strong’sG3017
Levi
stem levi-7 times in the New Testamentin 4 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.
Strong’s G3017 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlyoo'-ee
Levi, the name of three Israelites
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesLevi.
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
Levi;
__1. the son of Jacob:
__2. Son of Melchi:
__3. Son of Simeon:
__4. Son of Alphæus (cf. Μαθθαῖος):
(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 | levios1×Λευὶ | leviois |
| object accusative | levion2×Λευὶν | levioin |
| direct address vocative | levior | levioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | leviou4×Λευὶ | levioiu |
| to, for dative | levio | levioi |
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
levio 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.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
levios“Levi”subjectnominative singular1×
Hebrews 7:9… hōs epem legara, dia Abraam kai Levios tos dekatain labarōntos dekatotē,And so to speak, Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the …
levion“Levi”objectaccusative singular2×
Mark 2:14kai paragarōntos horata Levion ton tou Halfaiou kathorōnton epi tem …… He was walking along, He saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the …
Luke 5:27… houteim exerchata kai theaseta telōnon onome Levion kathorōnton epi tem telōniem, kai legata …… and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. “Follow …
leviou“Levi”of, belonging togenitive singular4×
Luke 3:24tou Maththat tou Leviou tou Melchi tou Iannai tou Iōsēf… son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son …
Luke 3:29… Eliezer tou Iōrim tou Maththat tou Leviou… son of Matthat, the son of Levi,
Hebrews 7:5kai tois men ek toiu huioiu Leviou tan hierateian labarōntois entolan echalō apodekatarō …… the law commands the sons of Levi who become priests to collect a …
Revelation 7:7… fulau Sumeōn dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Leviou dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Issachar dōdeka …… of Simeon 12,000, from the tribe of Levi 12,000, from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,