noun · feminine
sanias
Strong’sG4548
a plank, board
stem sani-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.
σανίς, -ίδος, ἡ
[in LXX: Ca 8:9, Ez 27:5 (לוּחַ) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4548 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsan-ece'
a plank
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamesboard.
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
board, plank, timber, σ. πτελεΐνη NT+3rd c.BC+:—hence anything made thereof,
1 door, Refs 8th c.BC+ always in plural, folding doors, Refs 8th c.BC+; κολληταὶ σ. Refs 8th c.BC+: rarely in singular, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 wooden platform, scaffold, or stage, ἐφ᾽ ὑψηλῆς σ. Refs 8th c.BC+
3 wooden floor, especially ship's deck, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 bench, seat, Refs 4th c.BC+
5 lid of box, variant in LXX
6 in plural, wooden tablets for writing on, Refs 5th c.BC+: especiallyat Athens and elsewhere, tablets covered with gypsum, on which were written all sorts of public notices, especially the causes for hearing in the law-courts, Refs 5th c.BC+; laws to be proposed, Decrees cited in Refs 5th c.BC+; laws corrected by the Thesmothetae, Refs 4th c.BC+; lists of officers, Refs 5th c.BC+; names of debtors, Refs 5th c.BC+; at Rome, of the tables on which the laws were written, Refs 2nd c.AD+
6.b plural, painted panels, pictures, Refs 2nd c.BC+
7 plank to which offenders were bound or nailed, ζῶντα πρὸς σανίδα διε- (variant{προσδιε-}) πασσάλευσαν Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | sanias | saniais |
| object accusative | sanian | saniain |
| direct address vocative | saniar | saniair |
| of, belonging to genitive | saniau | saniaiu |
| to, for dative | sania | saniai1×σανίσιν |
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
sania 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
saniai“planks”to, fordative plural1×
Acts 27:44kai toin loipoin hoin men epi saniai hoin de epi tineiu teiu apo …The rest were to follow on planks and various parts of the ship …