noun · feminine
rodas
GreekῬόδος (rodos)
Strong’sG4499
Rhodes
stem rod-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
Ῥόδος, -ου, ὁ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4499 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhrod'-os
Rhodus, an island of the Mediterranean
Fromprobably from ῥόδον (a rose);
King JamesRhodes.
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 | rodas | rodais |
| object accusative | rodan1×Ῥόδον | rodain |
| direct address vocative | rodar | rodair |
| of, belonging to genitive | rodau | rodaiu |
| to, for dative | roda | rodai |
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
roda 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
Words built on the same stem
Where it appears
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
rodan“Rhodes”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 21:1“Rhodes”Hōs de gineta anagira nin apospiratoin apo autoiu, euthudromaratois erchana eis tan Kōan, ta de hexēs eis tan Rodan, kakeithen eis Patareim;After we had torn ourselves away from them, we sailed directly to Cos, and the next day on to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.