noun · feminine
milētas
Strong’sG3399
Miletus
stem milēt-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 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.
Μίλητος, -ου, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3399 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmil'-ay-tos
Miletus, a city of Asia Minor
Fromof uncertain origin;
King JamesMiletus.
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
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 | milētas | milētais |
| object accusative | milētan1×Μίλητον | milētain |
| direct address vocative | milētar | milētair |
| of, belonging to genitive | milētau1×Μιλήτου | milētaiu |
| to, for dative | milēta1×Μιλήτῳ | milētai |
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
milēta 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
milētan“Miletus”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 20:15… Saman, ta de echorōnta erchana eis Milētan;… the following day we came to Miletus.
milētau“Miletus”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 20:17Apo de tau Milētau pemparantos eis Efesan metakaleta toin presbuteroin …From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the …
milēta“Miletus”to, fordative singular1×
2 Timothy 4:20… en Korintha, Trofimon de apolipama en Milēta asthenarōnton.… and Trophimus I left sick in Miletus.