noun · feminine
pafas
Strong’sG3974
Paphos
stem paf-2 times in the New Testament1 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.
Πάφος, -ου, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3974 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpaf'-os
Paphus, a place in Cyprus
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King JamesPaphos.
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
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 | pafas | pafais |
| object accusative | pafan | pafain |
| direct address vocative | pafar | pafair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pafau2×Πάφου | pafaiu |
| to, for dative | pafa | pafai |
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
pafa 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
pafau“Paphos”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Acts 13:6diercharantois de holan tan nēsan achri Pafau heuriskala andron tinon magon pseudoprofēton Ioudaion …… the whole island as far as Paphos, where they found a Jewish sorcerer …
Acts 13:13Anagirantois de apo tau Pafau tois peri Paulon erchala eis Pergan …After setting sail from Paphos, Paul and his companions came to …