noun · feminine
mesopotamias
Strong’sG3318
Mesopotamia
stem mesopotami-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.
Μεσοποταμία, -ας, ἡ (sc. χώρα),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3318 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Mesopotamia:
(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 | mesopotamias | mesopotamiais |
| object accusative | mesopotamian1×Μεσοποταμίαν | mesopotamiain |
| direct address vocative | mesopotamiar | mesopotamiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | mesopotamiau | mesopotamiaiu |
| to, for dative | mesopotamia1×Μεσοποταμίᾳ | mesopotamiai |
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
mesopotamia 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
mesopotamian“Mesopotamia”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 2:9… kai Elamitois, kai tois katoikarōntois tan Mesopotamian, Ioudaian tē kai Kappadokian, Ponton kai …Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
mesopotamia“Mesopotamia”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 7:2… patro nu Abraam arōnto en ta Mesopotamia prin ē katoikara auton en Charran,… Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,