noun · neuter
praitōriem
Strong’sG4232
the official residence of the procurator
stem praitōri-8 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books2 of 6 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.
*† πραιτώριον, -ου, τό, (Lat. prætorium),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4232 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidprahee-to'-ree-on
the prætorium or governor's courtroom (sometimes including the whole edifice and camp)
Fromof Latin origin;
King James(common, judgment) hall (of judgment), palace, prætorium.
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
= Latin Praetorium, official residence of a governor, NT; later, of private residences, Refs 6th c.AD+
II praetorian guard: ἔπαρχος πραιτωρίον, τοῦ π., = praefectus praetorio, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 imperial household, Ep. Phil.1.13.
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 or object direct | praitōriem1×πραιτώριον | praitōrieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | praitōrieu | praitōrieiu |
| to, for dative | praitōrie2×πραιτωρίῳ | praitōriei |
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
praitōrie 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.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
praitōriem“praetorium”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Mark 15:16… auton esō tau aulau, hem atō praitōriem, kai sunkalalō holan tan speiran.… into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called the whole company together.
praitōrie“praetorium”to, fordative singular2×
Acts 23:35… katēgorois su parageneleia; keleuarantos en te praitōrie tou Hērōdou fulassorō auton.… be kept under guard in Herod’s Praetorium.
Philippians 1:13“imperial guard”… en Christo genera en hole te praitōrie kai toi loipoi pantoi,… it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.
praitōriem5×
Matthew 27:27… hēgemonou paralabarantois ton Iēsun eis tem praitōriem sunagala epi auton holan tan speiran.… governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company around …
John 18:28… Iēsun apo tou Kaiafou eis tem praitōriem; ate de prōi; kai autois ouk …… the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable …
John 18:28“headquarters”… kai autois ouk eiserchala eis tem praitōriem, hina mē mianileia alla esthialeia tem …Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
John 18:33“headquarters”Eiserchata oun palin eis tem praitōriem tos Pilatos kai fōnata ton Iēsun …Pilate went back into the Praetorium, summoned Jesus, and asked Him …
John 19:9“headquarters”kai eiserchata eis tem praitōriem palin kai legatō to Iēso; Pothen …and he went back into the Praetorium. “Where are You from?” he asked …