noun · feminine
sapfiras
Strong’sG4551
Sapphira
stem sapfir-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.
Σαπφείρα, -ης (v. B1., § 3, 4), ἡ
(< Aram. שַׁפִּירָא)
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4551 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsap-fi'-ray
Sapphire, an Israelitess
Fromfeminine of G4552;
King JamesSapphira.
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
(Aram. שַׁפִּירָא)
Sapphia:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
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 | sapfiras | sapfirais |
| object accusative | sapfiran | sapfirain |
| direct address vocative | sapfirar | sapfirair |
| of, belonging to genitive | sapfirau | sapfiraiu |
| to, for dative | sapfira1×Σαπφίρῃ | sapfirai |
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
sapfira 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
sapfira“Sapphira”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 5:1Andros de tinos Hananios onome sun Sapfira ta gunaika autou pōlata ktēmem… named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.