noun · feminine
marthas
Strong’sG3136
Martha
stem marth-13 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books4 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
Martha is a personal name, that of a woman appearing in the Gospels 1234. It is of Aramaic origin, said to mean "mistress" 2.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Strong’s G3136 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmar'-thah
Martha, a Christian woman
Fromprobably of Chaldee origin (meaning mistress);
King JamesMartha.
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
Martha:
(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 | marthas8×Μάρθα | marthais |
| object accusative | marthan2×Μάρθαν | marthain |
| direct address vocative | marthar2×Μάρθα | marthair |
| of, belonging to genitive | marthau1×Μάρθας | marthaiu |
| to, for dative | martha | marthai |
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
martha 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.
13 occurrences, every one of them listed
marthas“Martha”subjectnominative singular8×
Luke 10:38… kōman tinan; gunaikas de tinas onome Marthas hupodecheta auton.… a village where a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home.
Luke 10:40tas de Marthas perispote peri pollan diakonian; epistēarantas de …But Martha was distracted by all the preparations …
John 11:20tas oun Marthas hōs akouata hoti Iēsus erchotō hupantata …So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she …
John 11:21legata oun tas Marthas pros ton Iēsun; Kurior, ei ase …Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You …
John 11:24legatō auto tas Marthas; Oidamē hoti anastēeti en ta anastasia …Martha replied, “I know that he will …
John 11:30… to topo hopou hupantata auto tas Marthas.… was still at the place where Martha had met Him.
John 11:39… legatō auto tas adelfas tou teleutarēntou Marthas; Kurior, ēdē ozatō, tetartaios gar atō.… Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man …
John 12:2… oun auto deipnem ekei, kai tas Marthas diakonate, tos de Lazaros henos ate …… hosted a dinner for Jesus there. Martha served, and Lazarus was among those …
marthan“Martha”objectaccusative singular2×
John 11:5agapate de tos Iēsus tan Marthan kai tan adelfan autau kai ton …Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
John 11:19… ek toiu Ioudaioiu erchalelē pros tan Marthan kai Mariam hina paramutheleia autain peri …… of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in …
marthar“Martha”direct addressvocative singular2×
Luke 10:41apokrinirantos de legata auta tos kurios; Marthar Marthar, merimnasō kai thorubazosō peri polleim,“Martha, Martha,” the Lord replied, “you are worried …
Luke 10:41… de legata auta tos kurios; Marthar Marthar, merimnasō kai thorubazosō peri polleim,“Martha, Martha,” the Lord replied, “you are …
marthau“Martha”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
John 11:1… Bēthaniau ek tau kōmau Mariau kai Marthau tau adelfau autau.… village of Mary and her sister Martha.