noun · feminine
sapfiras
Greekσάπφιρος (sapfiros)
Strong’sG4552
a sapphire
stem sapfir-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
† σάπφειρος, -ου, ἡ
[in LXX for סַפִּיר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4552 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsap'-fi-ros
a "sapphire" or lapis-lazuli gem
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King Jamessapphire.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | sapfiras1×σάπφιρος | sapfirais |
| object accusative | sapfiran | sapfirain |
| direct address vocative | sapfirar | sapfirair |
| of, belonging to genitive | sapfirau | sapfiraiu |
| to, for dative | sapfira | 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
Where it appears
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
sapfiras“sapphire”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 21:19“sapphire”tois themeliois teu teicheu tau politau panto litho timio kosmirētois; tos themelios tos prōtos iaspias, tos deuteros sapfiras, tos tritos chalkēdōnos, tos tetartos smaragdos,The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,