noun · feminine
samothrakas
Strong’sG4543
Samothrace
stem samothrak-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.
Σαμοθρᾴκη
(-θράκη, BE), -ης, ἡ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4543 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsam-oth-rak'-ay
Samo-thrace (Samos of Thrace), an island in the Mediterranean
Fromfrom G4544 and Θτρᾴκη (Thrace);
King JamesSamothracia.
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
Ionic dialect Σαμοθρηΐκη, ἡ, Refs 5th c.BC+; the seat of the mysteries of the Cabeiri, Refs; called Σάμος Θρηϊκίη in Refs 8th c.BC+; and simply Σάμος, Refs 8th c.BC+. adjective Σᾰμόθρᾳξ (not Σαμοθρᾴξ),Refs 4th c.AD+ H., etc.; Ionic dialect plural Σαμοθρήϊκες Refs 5th c.BC+; also Σᾰμοθρᾴκιος, Ionic dialect Σαμοθρηΐκιος, η, ον, Refs
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 | samothrakas | samothrakais |
| object accusative | samothrakan1×Σαμοθρᾴκην | samothrakain |
| direct address vocative | samothrakar | samothrakair |
| of, belonging to genitive | samothrakau | samothrakaiu |
| to, for dative | samothraka | samothrakai |
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
samothraka 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
samothrakan“Samothrace”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 16:11Anagirantois oun apo Trōadau euthudromana eis Samothrakan, ta de epeiarōnta eis Nean Polisan,We sailed from Troas straight to Samothrace, and the following day on to …