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noun · feminine

GreekΠτολεμαΐς (ptolemais)
Biblang

ptolemaidas

Strong’sG4424

Ptolemais

stem ptolemaid-once in the New Testament1 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.

Πτολεμαΐς, -ΐδος, ἡ,

Ptolemais, a maritime city of Phœnicea: Ac 21:7.†

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

Strong’s G4424 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidptol-em-ah-is'

Ptolemais, a place in Palestine

Fromfrom Πτολεμαῖος (Ptolemy, after whom it was named);

King JamesPtolemais.

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
name of several cities, especially of one in Phoenicia, now Acre , Refs 1st c.BC (Middle Liddel)

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.

Ptolemais1×

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativeptolemaidasptolemaidais
object accusativeptolemaidan1×Πτολεμαΐδαptolemaidain
direct address vocativeptolemaidarptolemaidair
of, belonging to genitiveptolemaidauptolemaidaiu
to, for dativeptolemaidaptolemaidai

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
ptolemaidstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

ptolemaida 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

ptolemaidan“Ptolemais”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 21:7… plouon dianuarantois apo Turau katantana eis Ptolemaidan, kai aspazerantois toin adelfoin menana hēmeran …… voyage from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and …