noun · feminine
pergas
Strong’sG4011
Perga
stem perg-3 times in the New Testament3 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.
Πέργη, -ης, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4011 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidperg'-ay
a tower; Perga, a place in Asia Minor
Fromprobably from the same as G4010;
King JamesPerga.
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
Perga, a city of Pamphylia:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
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 | pergas | pergais |
| object accusative | pergan1×Πέργην | pergain |
| direct address vocative | pergar | pergair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pergau1×Πέργης | pergaiu |
| to, for dative | perga1×Πέργῃ | pergai |
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
perga 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
pergan“Perga”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 13:13… Pafau tois peri Paulon erchala eis Pergan tau Pamfuliau; Iōannos de apochōrarantos apo …… Paul and his companions came to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them …
pergau“Perga”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 13:14autois de diercharantois apo tau Pergau paragenela eis Antiocheian tan Pisidian, kai …And from Perga, they traveled inland to Pisidian Antioch …
perga“Perga”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 14:25kai lalarantois en Perga ton logon katabainala eis Attaleian,… they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.