noun · feminine
sardias
Strong’sG4554
Sardis
stem sardi-3 times in the New Testament2 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.
Σάρδεις, -εων, αἱ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4554 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsar'-dice
Sardis, a place in Asia Minor
Fromplural of uncertain derivation;
King JamesSardis.
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
“Sardes”, the capital of Lydia, Refs 4th c.BC+:—Ionic dialect Σάρδιες Refs, etc. (Σάρδῑς is only falsa lectio in Refs 5th c.BC+; genitive Σαρδίων, dative Σάρδῐσι, Refs 5th c.BC+; accusative Σάοδιας Refs 5th c.BC+:— adjective Σαρδιᾱνός, Ionic dialect Σαρδι-ηνός, ή, όν, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ Σαρδιανοί Refs 5th c.BC+:—Σαρδιᾱνικός, ή, όν, 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 | sardias | sardiais |
| object accusative | sardian | sardiain1×Σάρδεις |
| direct address vocative | sardiar | sardiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | sardiau | sardiaiu |
| to, for dative | sardia | sardiai2×Σάρδεσιν |
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
sardia 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
sardiain“Sardis”objectaccusative plural1×
Revelation 1:11… Pergaman kai eis Thuateireim kai eis Sardiain kai eis Filadelfeian kai eis Laodikeian.… churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
sardiai“Sardis”to, fordative plural2×
Revelation 3:1Kai to angelo tau en Sardiai ekklēsau grafasar; Hōdeim legatō tos echarōntos …… the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of …
Revelation 3:4alla echasō oligeim onomeim en Sardiai heim ouk molunala teim himatieim autoiu, …… do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments …