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noun · feminine

smurnas

GreekΣμύρνα (smurna)

Strong’sG4667

Smyrna

stem smurn-2 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

Smyrnasmyrna

What it means

Σμύρνα (T, Ζμ-; B1., § 3, 9), -ας, ἡ

Smyrna, an Ionian city on the Ægean: Re 1:11 2:8.†

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

Strong’s G4667 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidsmoor'-nah

Smyrna, a place in Asia Minor

Fromthe same as G4666;

King JamesSmyrna.

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativesmurnassmurnais
object accusativesmurnanΣμύρνανsmurnain
direct address vocativesmurnarsmurnair
of, belonging to genitivesmurnausmurnaiu
to, for dativesmurnaΣμύρνῃsmurnai

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
smurnstem+agender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

smurna 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

smurnas — σμύρνα, myrrh

Where it appears

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

smurnan“smyrna”objectaccusative singular

Revelation 1:11“smyrna”legarōtau; Hem blepasō grafasar eis bibliem kai pempasar tai hepta ekklēsai, eis Efesan kai eis Smurnan kai eis Pergaman kai eis Thuateireim kai eis Sardiain kai eis Filadelfeian kai eis Laodikeian.saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

smurna“Smyrna”to, fordative singular

Revelation 2:8“Smyrna”Kai to angelo tau en Smurna ekklēsau grafasar; Hōdeim legatō tos prōtos kai tos eschatos, hos gineta nekros kai zōata;To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of the First and the Last, who died and returned to life.