noun · feminine
pergamas
Strong’sG4010
Pergamum
stem pergam-2 times in the New Testament2 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.
Πέργαμος, -ου, ἡ
(so Xen., Paus., al., but -ον, τό in Strabo, Polyb., and most writers, also in Inscr.; in NT the termination is uncertain),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4010 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidper'-gam-os
fortified; Pergamus, a place in Asia Minor
Fromfrom G4444;
King JamesPergamos.
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
2. also Περγαμία, Refs 5th c.BC (Middle Liddel)
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 | pergamas | pergamais |
| object accusative | pergaman1×Πέργαμον | pergamain |
| direct address vocative | pergamar | pergamair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pergamau | pergamaiu |
| to, for dative | pergama1×Περγάμῳ | pergamai |
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
pergama 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
pergaman“Pergamum”objectaccusative singular1×
Revelation 1:11… Efesan kai eis Smurnan kai eis Pergaman kai eis Thuateireim kai eis Sardiain …… the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
pergama“Pergamum”to, fordative singular1×
Revelation 2:12Kai to angelo tau en Pergama ekklēsau grafasar; Hōdeim legatō tos echarōntos …… the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These are the words of …