pontos

Strong’sG4195

Pontus

stem pont-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 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.

Πόντος, -ου, ὁ,

Pontus, a region of Asia Minor, bordering on the πόντος Εὔξεινος: Ac 2:9, I Pe 1:1.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4195 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpon'-tos

a sea; Pontus, a region of Asia Minor

Fromof Latin origin;

King JamesPontus.

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

πόντος, ὁ:
Epic dialect genitive ἐκ ποντόφιν Refs 8th c.BC+:—sea, especially open sea, common from Refs 8th c.BC+; in the general sense, ὁπότε πνεῦμα ἐκ πόντου εἴη LXX+5th c.BC+; π. ἀπείριτος, ἀπείρων, εὐρύς, μεγακήτης, Refs 8th c.BC+; κέλευθοι, πλάξ, πεδίον πόντου, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. ἁλὸς πολιῆς the wide waters of the grey brine, Refs 8th c.BC+; πόντου γέφυρα, πύλαι, of the Isthmus, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, π. ἀγαθῶν Refs 5th c.BC+
II of special seas, π. Ἰκάριος, Γρηΐκιος, Refs 8th c.BC+; Ἰόνιος, Σαρωνικός, Σικελός, Refs 5th c.BC+; generally called simply ὁ Πόντος or Πόντος, Refs 5th c.BC+ for the sea, Refs
II.2 the country Refs 5th c.BC+ shore of the Black Sea, Refs 2nd c.AD+ adjective Ποντικός (which see).
III personified as son of Gaia, Refs 8th 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.

Pontus2×

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	pontos	pontois
object accusative	ponton1×Πόντον	pontoin
direct address vocative	pontor	pontoir
of, belonging to genitive	pontou1×Πόντου	pontoiu
to, for dative	ponto	pontoi

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

pontstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

ponto 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

ponton“Pontus”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 2:9… tan Mesopotamian, Ioudaian tē kai Kappadokian, Ponton kai tan Asian,… residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

pontou“Pontus”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

1 Peter 1:1… apostolos Iēsu Christou eklektoi parepidēmoi diasporau Pontou, Galatiau, Kappadokiau, Asiau, kai Bithuniau,… are exiles of the Dispersion throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen