sebastos

Strong’sG4575

august, venerated

stem sebast-3 times in the New Testament3 of 26 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.

* σεβαστός, -ή, -όν (σεβάζομαι)

1. reverend, august.

2. In late writers, with reference to the Roman Imperial name;

(a) ὁ Σ., Augustus, i.e. the Roman Emperor: Ac 25:21, 25;

(b) Augustan: σπείρα σ., Ac 27:1 (See further, Deiss., BS, 218.) †

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4575 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidseb-as-tos'

venerable (august), i.e. (as noun) a title of the Roman Emperor, or (as adjective) imperial

Fromfrom G4573;

King JamesAugustus(-').

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

σεβαστός, ή, όν,
venerable, reverend, august, πρᾶγμα Refs 1st c.BC+; θεοί, probably of deified Emperors, Refs 1st c.AD+
II = Latin NT+1st c.BC+; ἐπὶ τοῦ πρώτου Σ. in the time of the first Refs; feminine Σεβαστή, = Refs 1st c.AD+; joined with Αὔγουστος, -ούστη, Refs
II.2 name of month, “Augustus”, in Egyptian calendars,= ThothRefs; in Phrygia and elsewhere, Refs
II.3 σεβαστή, ἡ (i.e. ἡμέρα), the Emperor's day, the day on which his birthday or accession day was celebrated every month, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.4 Σεβαστά, τά,= Σεβαστεῖα Refs 1st c.AD+

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.

emperor2×augustan1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	sebastos	sebastas	sebastem	sebastois	sebastais	sebasteim
object accusative	sebaston1×Σεβαστὸν	sebastan		sebastoin	sebastain
direct address vocative	sebastor	sebastar		sebastoir	sebastair
of, belonging to genitive	sebastou1×Σεβαστοῦ	sebastau1×Σεβαστῆς	sebasteu	sebastoiu	sebastaiu	sebasteiu
to, for dative	sebasto	sebasta	sebaste	sebastoi	sebastai	sebastei

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

sebaststem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

sebast 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.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

sebaston“emperor”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 25:25… prassarē, autou de houtou epikalerantou ton Sebaston krinama pemparō.… he has now appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

sebastou“emperor”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Acts 25:21… epikalerantou tērira auton eis tan tou Sebastou diagnōsian, keleuama tērorō auton heōs hou …… over for the decision of the Emperor, I ordered that he be held …

sebastau“augustan”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Acts 27:1“augustan”… heteroin desmōtoin hekatontarchēo onome Ioulio speirau Sebastau.… and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged …