noun · feminine
prōtokathedrias
Strong’sG4410
a chief seat
stem prōtokathedri-4 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.
*† πρωτοκαθεδρία, -ας, ἡ
(< πρῶιος, καθέδρα),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4410 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
the first seat in a public place, NT
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 | prōtokathedrias | prōtokathedriais |
| object accusative | prōtokathedrian1×πρωτοκαθεδρίαν | prōtokathedriain3×πρωτοκαθεδρίας |
| direct address vocative | prōtokathedriar | prōtokathedriair |
| of, belonging to genitive | prōtokathedriau | prōtokathedriaiu |
| to, for dative | prōtokathedria | prōtokathedriai |
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
prōtokathedria 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
prōtokathedrian“best seat”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 11:43“best seat”… vi toi Farisaioi, hoti agapavō tan prōtokathedrian en tai sunagōgai kai toin aspasmoin …Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the …
prōtokathedriain“best seats”objectaccusative plural3×
Matthew 23:6“best seats”… prōtoklisian en tei deipnei kai tain prōtokathedriain en tai sunagōgai… of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues,
Mark 12:39“best seats”kai prōtokathedriain en tai sunagōgai kai prōtoklisiain en …and to have the chief seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.
Luke 20:46“best seats”… filarōntoiu aspasmoin en tai agorai kai prōtokathedriain en tai sunagōgai kai prōtoklisiain en …… and they love the greetings in the marketplaces, the chief seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at banquets.