noun · feminine
ludias
Strong’sG3070
Lydia
stem ludi-2 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.
Λυδία, -ας, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3070 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidloo-dee'-ah
Lydia, a Christian woman
Fromproperly, feminine of Ludios (of foreign origin) (a Lydian, in Asia Minor);
King JamesLydia.
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
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, Refs 5th c.BC+:—hence Λῡδιακά, τά, a history of Lydia, by Xanthus, Refs 2nd c.AD+: Λῡδικὴ ἀρχή Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | ludias1×Λυδία | ludiais |
| object accusative | ludian1×Λυδίαν | ludiain |
| direct address vocative | ludiar | ludiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | ludiau | ludiaiu |
| to, for dative | ludia | ludiai |
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
ludia 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
ludias“Lydia”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 16:14kai tinas gunaikas onome Ludias, porfuropōlias polau Thuateireiu seborōntas ton theon, …… those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from …
ludian“Lydia”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 16:40“Lydia”… apo tau fulakau eiserchala pros tan Ludian, kai horarantois parakalala toin adelfoin kai …After Paul and Silas came out of the prison, they went to Lydia’s house to see the brothers and encourage them …