noun · masculine
leuitos
Strong’sG3019
a Levite
stem leuit-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
Λευείτης
(Rec. Λευΐτης), -ου, ὁ, [in LXX for לֵוִי;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3019 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlyoo-ee'-tace
a Levite, i.e. descendant of Levi
Fromfrom G3017;
King JamesLevite.
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
(Rec. Λευΐτης), -ου, ὁ [in LXX for לֵוִיִּי ;]
a Levite:
(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 | leuitos2×Λευίτης | leuitois |
| object accusative | leuiton | leuitoin1×Λευίτας |
| direct address vocative | leuitor | leuitoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | leuitou | leuitoiu |
| to, for dative | leuito | leuitoi |
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
leuito 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
leuitos“Levite”subjectnominative singular2×
Luke 10:32homoiōs de kai Leuitos kata ton topon ercharantos kai horarantos …So too, when a Levite came to that spot and saw …
Acts 4:36… apostoloiu, hem atō methermēneuorōntem huios paraklēsiau, Leuitos, Kuprios te gene,Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called …
leuitoin“Levites”objectaccusative plural1×
John 1:19… tois Ioudaiois ek Hierosolumeiu hierevoin kai Leuitoin hina erōtaleia auton; Sis tinos asō?… Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”