noun · masculine
pontios
Strong’sG4194
Pontius
stem ponti-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
Πόντιος, -ου, ὁ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4194 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpon'-tee-os
apparently bridged; Pontius, a Roman
Fromof Latin origin;
King JamesPontius.
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
also ος, ον Refs 5th c.BC+: (πόντος):— of the sea, epithet of Poseidon, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. Θέτις, Νηρηΐδες, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. δάκη sea monsters, Refs 4th c.BC+; π. ὕδωρ, πέλαγος, Refs 5th c.BC+; κύματα, θύελλα, Refs 5th c.BC+; ᾅδην π. πεφευγότες, i.e. death by drowning, Refs 4th c.BC+
b π. ῥάκη, of sponges or fragments of such, Refs
2 by the sea, of places, Ἰσθμός, ἀκτή, Χρύση, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 in the sea, of islands, Refs 5th c.BC+; especially of those far out to sea, opposed to πρόσγειοι, Refs 4th c.BC+; of ships, βάριδες Refs 5th c.BC+
4 of persons, ἱκέτας δέχεσθαι ποντίους from the sea,Refs; ἀφιέναι πόντιον into the sea, Refs
5 brought by sea or from beyond sea, of iron, Refs 4th c.BC+
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 | pontios1×Πόντιος | pontiois |
| object accusative | pontion | pontioin |
| direct address vocative | pontior | pontioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | pontiou2×Ποντίου | pontioiu |
| to, for dative | pontio | pontioi |
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
pontio 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
pontios“Pontius”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 4:27… Iēsun, hon chriasa, Hērōdos tē kai Pontios Pilatos sun ethnei kai laoi Israēl,… the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and …
pontiou“Pontius”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Luke 3:1… pentekaidekate tau hēgemoniau Tiberiou Kaisarou, hēgemoneuarōntou Pontiou Pilatou tau Ioudaiau, kai tetraarcharōntou tau …… the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod …
1 Timothy 6:13… kai Christou Iēsu tou marturarantou epi Pontiou Pilatou tan kalan homologian,… good confession in His testimony before Pontius Pilate: