noun · masculine
nefthalim
Strong’sG3508
Naphtali
stem nefthalim-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
Νεφθαλείμ
(-λίμ, WH in Re 7:6), ὁ, indecl. (Heb. נַפְתָּלִי),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3508 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnef-thal-ime'
Nephthaleim (i.e. Naphthali), a tribe in Palestine
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesNephthalim.
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
(-λίμ, WH in Re, l.with), ὁ
indecl. (Heb. נַפְתָּלִי)
Naphtali:
(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 | nefthalim | nefthalim |
| object accusative | nefthalim | nefthalim |
| direct address vocative | nefthalim | nefthalim |
| of, belonging to genitive | nefthalim3×Νεφθαλίμ | nefthalim |
| to, for dative | nefthalim | nefthalim |
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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
nefthalim“Naphtali”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Matthew 4:13… tan parathalassian en horei Zaboulōn kai Nefthalim;… in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,
Matthew 4:15Gēas Zaboulōn kai gēas Nefthalim, hodan thalassau, peran tou Iordanou, Galilaias …“Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the Way of the Sea, beyond …
Revelation 7:6… fulau Asēr dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Nefthalim dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Manassou dōdeka …… of Asher 12,000, from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000, from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,