noun · masculine
nigeros
GreekΝίγερ (niger)
Strong’sG3526
Niger
stem niger-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
Νίγερ, ὁ (Lat. niger)
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3526 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidneeg'-er
black; Niger, a Christian
Fromof Latin origin;
King JamesNiger.
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 | nigeros1×Νίγερ | nigerois |
| object accusative | nigeron | nigeroin |
| direct address vocative | nigeror | nigeroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | nigerou | nigeroiu |
| to, for dative | nigero | nigeroi |
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
nigero 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
nigeros“Niger”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 13:1“Niger”Ale de en Antiocheia kata tan arōtan ekklēsan profētois kai didaskalois tos tē Barnabaos kai Sumeōn tos kalirōtos Nigeros, kai Loukios tos Kurēnaios, Manaēn tē Hērōdou tou tetraarchou suntrofos kai Saulos.Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen ( who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch ), and Saul.