noun · feminine
samareias
Strong’sG4540
Samaria
stem samarei-11 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books4 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.
Σαμάρεια, v.s. Σαμαρία.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4540 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsam-ar'-i-ah
Samaria (i.e. Shomeron), a city and region of Palestine
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesSamaria.
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
“Samaria”, a city of Palestine, called Sebaste by Herod, Refs 1st c.BC+; also as name of a region, NT; of a village in Egypt, Refs 3rd c.BC+:—Σᾰμᾰρίτης [ῑ], ου (Doric dialect Σαμαρ-ίτας Refs 2nd c.BC+, ὁ, Samaritan, NT; feminine Σαμαρ-ῖτις, ιδος, NT (Σαμαρ-εῖτις Refs:—also Σᾰμᾰρεύς, έως, Refs 5th 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 | samareias1×Σαμάρεια | samareiais |
| object accusative | samareian1×Σαμάρειαν | samareiain |
| direct address vocative | samareiar | samareiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | samareiau8×Σαμαρείας | samareiaiu |
| to, for dative | samareia1×Σαμαρείᾳ | samareiai |
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
samareia 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.
11 occurrences, every one of them listed
samareias“Samaria”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 8:14… en Hierosolumei apostolois hoti dechotē tas Samareias ton logon tou theou, apostelala pros …… the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God …
samareian“Samaria”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 15:3… ekklēsau dierchole tan tē Foinikan kai Samareian ekdiēgorōntois tan epistrofan teiu ethneiu, kai …… church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of the Gentiles …
samareiau“Samaria”of, belonging togenitive singular8×
Luke 17:11… Ierousalēm kai autos dierchote dia mesem Samareiau kai Galilaiau.… to Jerusalem, He was passing between Samaria and Galilee.
John 4:4date de auton dierchorō dia tau Samareiau.Now He had to pass through Samaria.
John 4:5erchotō oun eis polan tau Samareiau legorōntan Suchar plēsion teu chōrieu hem …… He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of …
John 4:7“Samaria”Erchotō gunaikas ek tau Samareiau antlara hudem. legatō auta tos Iēsus; …… a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me …
Acts 8:1… kata tain chōrain tau Ioudaiau kai Samareiau plēn toiu apostoloiu.… apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
Acts 8:5… de katercharantos eis tan polan tau Samareiau kērussate autoi ton christon.… went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them.
Acts 8:9… mageuarōntos kai ekstēarōntos tem ethnem tau Samareiau, legarōntos arō tinon heauton megon,… city and astounded the people of Samaria. He claimed to be someone great,
Acts 9:31… holau tau Ioudaiau kai Galilaiau kai Samareiau echate eirēnan oikodomorōntas, kai poreuorōntas to …… the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It …
samareia“Samaria”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 1:8… kai en panta ta Ioudaia kai Samareia kai heōs eschateu tau gēau.… Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the …