noun · feminine
mitulēnas
GreekΜιτυλήνη (mitulēnē)
Strong’sG3412
Mitylene
stem mitulēn-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
Μιτυλήνη, -ης, ἡ
(late form — Strab., Plut. — of cl. Μυτιλ-),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3412 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmit-oo-lay'-nay
Mitylene (or Mytilene), a town on the island of Lesbos
Fromfor μυτιλήνη (abounding in shellfish);
King JamesMitylene.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | mitulēnas | mitulēnais |
| object accusative | mitulēnan1×Μιτυλήνην | mitulēnain |
| direct address vocative | mitulēnar | mitulēnair |
| of, belonging to genitive | mitulēnau | mitulēnaiu |
| to, for dative | mitulēna | mitulēnai |
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
mitulēna 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
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
mitulēnan“Mitylene”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 20:14“Mitylene”hōs de sumballate ni eis tan Assan, analambaratois auton erchana eis Mitulēnan,And when he met us at Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene.