noun · feminine
pentēkostas
Strong’sG4005
Pentecost
stem pentēkost-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.
πεντηκοστή, -ῆς, ἡ, v.s. πεντηκοστός.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4005 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
fiftieth, Refs 5th c.BC+
II substantive πεντηκοστή, ἡ,
II.1 (i.e. μερίς), fiftieth part: hence, tax of two per century. on exports and imports, at Athens, Refs 5th c.BC+; at Halicarnassus, Refs 3rd c.BC+; τῶν πρηθέντων τελείτω π. Refs 4th c.BC+; = Latin quinquagesima, Refs 2nd c.AD+ invented a new sort of composition of two per century. in lieu of his cavalry service, i. e. paid this instead of it, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 (i.e. ἡμέρα), fiftieth day (after the Passover), LXX; ἡ ἡμέρα τῆς Π. NT
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 | pentēkostas | pentēkostais |
| object accusative | pentēkostan | pentēkostain |
| direct address vocative | pentēkostar | pentēkostair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pentēkostau3×πεντηκοστῆς | pentēkostaiu |
| to, for dative | pentēkosta | pentēkostai |
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
pentēkosta 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
pentēkostau“pentecost”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Acts 2:1… en te sumplērorō tan hēmeran tau pentēkostau ale pantois homou epi tem autem,When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in …
Acts 20:16… dunatem atoiō auto tan hēmeran tau pentēkostau genera eis Hierosolumeim.… if possible, by the day of Pentecost.
1 Corinthians 16:8epimenami de en Efesa heōs tau pentēkostau;… I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,