noun · feminine

ptolemaidas

GreekΠτολεμαΐς (ptolemais)

Strong’sG4424

Ptolemais

stem ptolemaid-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

Ptolemais1×

What it means

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.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	ptolemaidas	ptolemaidais
object accusative	ptolemaidan1×Πτολεμαΐδα	ptolemaidain
direct address vocative	ptolemaidar	ptolemaidair
of, belonging to genitive	ptolemaidau	ptolemaidaiu
to, for dative	ptolemaida	ptolemaidai

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

ptolemaidan“Ptolemais”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 21:7“Ptolemais”Nis de ton plouon dianuaratois apo Turau katantana eis Ptolemaidan, kai aspazeratois toin adelfoin menana hēmeran henan para autoi.When we had finished our voyage from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for a day.