noun · feminine
libuas
Strong’sG3033
Libya, Africa
stem libu-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.
Λιβύη, -ης, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3033 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlib-oo'-ay
Libye, a region of Africa
Fromprobably from G3047;
King JamesLibya.
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
Refs 8th c.BC+; the west bank of the Nile, Refs 4th c.BC+:— adverb Λῐβύηθεν, from Libya, Refs 2nd c.AD+:—also Λῐβύηθε, Doric dialect Λῐβῠ-ᾱθε, Refs 3rd c.BC+:— adjective Λῐβῠκός, ή, όν, Refs 5th c.BC+; Λ. ὄρνεον, i.e. a strange, foreign bird, Refs 5th c.BC+; Λ. λόγοι a kind of fables resembling those of Aesop, Refs 4th c.BC+; also, western, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ={δυτικός}, Refs 5th c.AD+
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 | libuas | libuais |
| object accusative | libuan | libuain |
| direct address vocative | libuar | libuair |
| of, belonging to genitive | libuau1×Λιβύης | libuaiu |
| to, for dative | libua | libuai |
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
libua 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
libuau“Libya”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 2:10… Pamfulian, Aiguptan kai teim mereim tau Libuau tau kata Kurēnan, kai tois epidēmarōntois …… Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome,