noun · feminine
nēsas
Strong’sG3520
an island
stem nēs-9 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books4 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.
νῆσος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX for אִי;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3520 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnay'-sos
an island
Fromprobably from the base of G3491;
King Jamesisland, isle.
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
Doric dialect νᾶσος, ἡ, island, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐν τᾷ μεγάλᾳ Δωρίδι νάσῳ Πέλοπος, i.e. the Peloponnese, Refs 5th c.BC+; μακάρων νῆσοι, see at {μάκα; αἱ ν}. the islands of the Archipelago, Refs 5th c.BC+; καὶ πῶς γυνὴ.. νῆσον ἀμφιέννυτα; Refs 4th c.BC+: irregular genitive plural νησάων Refs 3rd c.BC+
2 land flooded by the Nile, Refs 3rd c.BC+; opposed to ἤπειρος, Refs 2nd c.AD+; νῆσοι ποταμοφόρητοι Refs 2nd c.AD+; so of alluvial land in Refs
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 | nēsas3×νῆσος | nēsais |
| object accusative | nēsan2×νῆσον | nēsain |
| direct address vocative | nēsar | nēsair |
| of, belonging to genitive | nēsau1×νήσου | nēsaiu |
| to, for dative | nēsa3×νήσῳ | nēsai |
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
nēsa 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.
9 occurrences, every one of them listed
nēsas“island”subjectnominative singular3×
Acts 28:1… diasōzirantois tote epignōskana hoti Melitas tas nēsas kalotō.… safely ashore, we learned that the island was called Malta.
Revelation 6:14… bibliem helissorōntem, kai pantem orem kai nēsas ek toiu topoiu auteiu kinila.… rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.
Revelation 16:20kai pantas nēsas fugata, kai oreim ouk heuriskila.Then every island fled, and no mountain could be …
nēsan“island”objectaccusative singular2×
Acts 13:6diercharantois de holan tan nēsan achri Pafau heuriskala andron tinon magon …They traveled through the whole island as far as Paphos, where they …
Acts 27:26eis nēsan de tinan datō nin ekpiptara.… we must run aground on some island.”
nēsau“island”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 28:7… ekeinon huparchate chōrieim to prōto tau nēsau onome Poplio, hos anadecherantos nin treis …… Publius, the chief official of the island. He welcomed us and entertained us …
nēsa“island”to, fordative singular3×
Acts 28:9… kai tois loipois tois en ta nēsa echarōntois astheniain proserchole kai therapeuole,… rest of the sick on the island came and were cured as well.
Acts 28:11… anagina en ploie paracheimazarēnte en ta nēsa Alexandrine, parasēme Dioskouroi.… ship that had wintered in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as …
Revelation 1:9… hupomona en Iēso, genema en ta nēsa ta kalorōnta Patma dia ton logon …… are in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word …