noun · masculine

sōpatros

GreekΣώπατρος (sōpatros)

Strong’sG4986

Sopater

stem sōpatr-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

Sopater1×

What it means

Σώπατρος, -ου, ὁ

Sopater: Ac 20:4.†

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

Strong’s G4986 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidso'-pat-ros

of a safe father; Sopatrus, a Christian

Fromfrom the base of G4982 and G3962;

King JamesSopater.

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	sōpatros1×Σώπατρος	sōpatrois
object accusative	sōpatron	sōpatroin
direct address vocative	sōpatror	sōpatroir
of, belonging to genitive	sōpatrou	sōpatroiu
to, for dative	sōpatro	sōpatroi

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

sōpatrstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

sōpatro 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

sōpatros“Sopater”subjectnominative singular1×

Acts 20:4“Sopater”sunepete de auto Sōpatros Purrou Beroiaios, Thessalonikevoiu de Aristarchos kai Sekoundos, kai Gaios Derbaios kai Timotheos, Asianois de Tuchikos kai Trofimos;Paul was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.