noun · masculine
nathanaēl
Strong’sG3482
Nathanael
stem nathanaēl-6 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.
Ναθαναήλ, ὁ, indecl. (Heb. נְתַנְאֵל),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3482 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnath-an-ah-ale'
Nathanaël (i.e. Nathanel), an Israelite and Christian
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesNathanael.
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
Nathaniel, prob. to be identified with Bartholomew (which see):
(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 | nathanaēl4×Ναθαναήλ | nathanaēl |
| object accusative | nathanaēl2×Ναθαναὴλ | nathanaēl |
| direct address vocative | nathanaēl | nathanaēl |
| of, belonging to genitive | nathanaēl | nathanaēl |
| to, for dative | nathanaēl | nathanaēl |
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
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
nathanaēl“Nathanael”subjectnominative singular4×
John 1:46kai legata auto Nathanaēl; Ek Nazaret dunotō tinem agathem arō? …“Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said Philip.
John 1:48legatō auto Nathanaēl; Pothen min gnōskasō? apokrinita Iēsus kai …“How do You know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus replied, “Before Philip called …
John 1:49apokrinita auto Nathanaēl; Rabbi, sis asō tos huios tou …“Rabbi,” Nathanael answered, “You are the Son of …
John 21:2… kai Thōmos tos legorōntos Didumos kai Nathanaēl tos apo Kana tau Galilaiau kai …Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons …
nathanaēl“Nathanael”objectaccusative singular2×
John 1:45heuriskatō Filippos ton Nathanaēl kai legatō auto; Hon grafata Mōusos …Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found …
John 1:47horata tos Iēsus ton Nathanaēl erchorōnton pros auton kai legatō peri …When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here …