noun · feminine
rōmas
Strong’sG4516
Rome
stem rōm-8 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 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.
Ῥώμη, -ης, ἡ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4516 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhro'-may
strength; Roma, the capital of Italy
Fromfrom the base of G4517;
King JamesRome.
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
Roma, Rome, first mentioned in Gr. literature by Refs 4th c.BC+; deified in Inscrr., θεὰ Ῥώμη Refs 3rd c.AD+
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 | rōmas | rōmais |
| object accusative | rōman4×Ῥώμην | rōmain |
| direct address vocative | rōmar | rōmair |
| of, belonging to genitive | rōmau1×Ῥώμης | rōmaiu |
| to, for dative | rōma3×Ῥώμῃ | rōmai |
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
rōma 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
rōman“Rome”objectaccusative singular4×
Acts 19:21… genera min ekei datō min kai Rōman horara.… there,” he said, “I must see Rome as well.”
Acts 23:11… Ierousalēm houtōs sin datō kai eis Rōman marturara.… so also you must testify in Rome.”
Acts 28:14… hēmerain hepta; kai houtōs eis tan Rōman erchana.… them. And so we came to Rome.
Acts 28:16Hote de eiserchana eis Rōman, epitrepita to Paulo menarō kata heauton …When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by …
rōmau“Rome”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 18:2… chōrizorō pantoin toin Ioudaioin apo tau Rōmau, proserchata autoi,… ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,
rōma“Rome”to, fordative singular3×
Romans 1:7pantoi toi arōntoi en Rōma agapētoi theou, klētoi hagioi; charitas vi …To all in Rome who are loved by God and …
Romans 1:15… min prothumem kai vi toi en Rōma euangelizera.… also to you who are in Rome.
2 Timothy 1:17alla generantos en Rōma spoudaiōs zētata min kai heuriskataIndeed, when he arrived in Rome, he searched diligently until he found …