noun · feminine
stafulas
Strong’sG4718
a grape, cluster of grapes
stem staful-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 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.
σταφυλή, -ῆς, ἡ
[in LXX for עֵנָב;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4718 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidstaf-oo-lay'
a cluster of grapes (as if intertwined)
Fromprobably from the base of G4735;
King Jamesgrapes.
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
bunch of grapes, σταφυλῇσι μέγα βρίθουσαν ἀλωήν NT+8th c.BC+; Πυρναίαις σ. Refs 3rd c.BC+; of ripe, fresh grapes, opposed to ὄμφαξ on the one hand, and σταφίς on the other, Refs 3rd c.BC+
2 σ. ἀγρία,= μήλωθρον Refs 4th c.BC+
II uvula when swollen at the end so as to resemble a grape on the stalk, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the uvula generally, Refs 2nd c.AD+; inflammation of the uvula, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III paroxytone σταφύλη, plummet of a level, ἵπποι.. σταφύλῃ ἐπὶ νῶτον ἔϊσαι horses equal in height even by the level, matched to a nicety, Refs 8th 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 | stafulas | stafulais1×σταφυλαὶ |
| object accusative | stafulan1×σταφυλὴν | stafulain1×σταφυλὰς |
| direct address vocative | stafular | stafulair |
| of, belonging to genitive | stafulau | stafulaiu |
| to, for dative | stafula | stafulai |
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
stafula 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
stafulan“grapes”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 6:44… akanthaiu sullegalō sukeim, oude ek batau stafulan trugalō.… are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles.
stafulais“grapes”subjectnominative plural1×
Revelation 14:18… ampelau tau gēau, hoti akmazala tais stafulais autau.… vine of the earth, because its grapes are ripe.”
stafulain“grapes”objectaccusative plural1×
Matthew 7:16… epignōskevi autoin. mēti sullegalō apo akanthaiu stafulain ē apo triboloiu sukeim?… fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from …