noun · feminine
selēnas
Strong’sG4582
the moon
stem selēn-9 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books3 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.
σελήνη, -ης, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for יָרֵחַ (Ge 37:9, al.), also for לְבָנָה; (Ca 6:9 (10), Is 24:23א, 30:26);]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4582 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsel-ay'-nay
probably akin to the alternate of G138, through the idea of attractiveness); the moon
Fromfrom σέλας (brilliancy;
King Jamesmoon.
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
Doric dialect σελάνα [λᾱ] Refs 5th c.BC+, Aeolic dialect σελάννα Refs 7th c.BC+; compare also σεληναίη:— the moon, σ. πλήθουσα the full-moon, Refs 8th c.BC+; σ. ἀεξομένη, ὀλίγη κεράεσσι, Refs 4th c.BC+; a moon's breadth, measure used by early astronomers, Refs 1st c.BC+; νουμηνία κατὰ σελήνην, i.e. by the lunar month, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰς ἡμέρας κατὰ σ. ἄγειν Refs 3rd c.BC+; πρὸς τὴν σ. ὁρᾶν by moonlight, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ἐκ τῆς σ. νόσος,= σεληνιασμός, Refs 2nd c.AD+; τὴν σ. καθελεῖν, of Thessalian witches, Refs 5th c.BC+
b month, δεκάτῃ σελήνῃ in the tenth moon, Refs 5th c.BC+; πολλὰς σ. Refs; τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς σ. Refs 5th c.BC+
2 a moon-shaped wheaten cake, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 a round table, or tripod, Refs 2nd c.AD+
4 name of a plant, Ps.-Refs 1st c.AD+
II as feminine proper name, Selene, the goddess of the moon (never in Refs 8th c.BC+ (σελάνα, σελάννα) from *σελάσνᾱ, compare σέλας.)
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 | selēnas5×σελήνη | selēnais |
| object accusative | selēnan | selēnain |
| direct address vocative | selēnar | selēnair |
| of, belonging to genitive | selēnau3×σελήνης | selēnaiu |
| to, for dative | selēna1×σελήνῃ | selēnai |
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
selēna 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.
9 occurrences, every one of them listed
selēnas“moon”subjectnominative singular5×
Matthew 24:29… ekeinaiu tos hēlios skotiziti, kai tas selēnas ouk dōati tem fengem autau, kai …… sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the …
Mark 13:24… ekeinan tos hēlios skotiziti, kai tas selēnas ouk dōati tem fengem autau,… sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;
Acts 2:20… hēlios metastrefiti eis skotem kai tas selēnas eis haimem prin ē erchara hēmeran …… be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of …
Revelation 6:12… melanos hōs sakkos trichinos, kai tas selēnas holas geneta hōs haimem,… of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
Revelation 12:1… gunaikas peribalorēntas ton hēlion, kai tas selēnas hupokatō toiu podoiu autau, kai epi …… clothed in the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown …
selēnau“moon”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
1 Corinthians 15:41allosas doxas hēliou, kai allosas doxas selēnau, kai allosas doxas asteroiu, asteros gar …… has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and …
Revelation 8:12… tou hēliou kai tem tritem tau selēnau kai tem tritem toiu asteroiu, hina …… a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third …
Revelation 21:23… chreian echatō tou hēliou oude tau selēnau, hina fanaleiō auta, tas gar doxas …… has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the …
selēna“moon”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 21:25Kai eli sēmeim en hēlio kai selēna kai astrei, kai epi tau gēau …… be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth …