noun · feminine
luddas
Strong’sG3069
Lydda, Diospolis, Lod
stem ludd-3 times in the New Testament2 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.
λύδδα, -ας (Ac 9:38, -ης Rec.), ἡ and λύδδα, -ων, τά (Ac 9:32, 35; -αν, Rec.), (Heb. לֹד),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3069 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlud'-dah
Lydda (i.e. Lod), a place in Palestine
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesLydda.
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
Lydda (modern Ludd): Ac, ll. with†
(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 | luddas | luddais |
| object accusative | luddan2×Λύδδα | luddain |
| direct address vocative | luddar | luddair |
| of, belonging to genitive | luddau1×Λύδδας | luddaiu |
| to, for dative | ludda | luddai |
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
ludda 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
luddan“Lydda”objectaccusative singular2×
Acts 9:32… kai pros toin hagioin toin katoikarōntoin Luddan.… went to visit the saints in Lydda.
Acts 9:35kai horala auton pantois tois katoikarōntois Luddan kai ton Sarōnon, hotinois epistrefala epi …and all who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned …
luddau“Lydda”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 9:38engus de arōntau Luddau ta Ioppa tois mathētois akouarantois hoti …Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing …