noun · feminine
samas
Strong’sG4544
Samos
stem sam-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.
Σάμος, -ου, ἡ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4544 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsam'-os
Samus, an island of the Mediterranean
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King JamesSamos.
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
“Samos”, the name of several Greek islands:
1 old name for Κεφαλληνία (which see), Refs 8th c.BC+; also called Σάμη,Refs; though this, accusative to others, is a town on the island: hence adjective Σαμαῖος, α, ον, Refs 1st c.BC+
2 Σάμος Θρηϊκίη, see at {Σαμοθρᾴκη}.
3 “Samos”, the large island over against Ephesus, first in Refs: hence adjective Σάμιος, α, ον, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ Σαμία (i.e. γῆ) Refs 4th c.BC+; also Σ. ἀστήρ, clay with medicinal properties, Refs 2nd c.AD+:—Σαμιακός, ή, όν, Refs 5th c.BC+ was an old word signifying a height.)
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 | samas | samais |
| object accusative | saman1×Σάμον | samain |
| direct address vocative | samar | samair |
| of, belonging to genitive | samau | samaiu |
| to, for dative | sama | samai |
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
sama 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
saman“Samos”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 20:15… Chiau, ta de hetera paraballana eis Saman, ta de echorōnta erchana eis Milētan;… day after that we arrived at Samos, and on the following day we …