noun · masculine
stefanos
Strong’sG4736
Stephen
stem stefan-7 times in the New Testament4 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.
Στέφανος, -ου, ὁ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4736 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidstef'-an-os
Stephanus, a Christian
Fromthe same as G4735;
King JamesStephen.
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
Stephen:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
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 | stefanos1×Στέφανος | stefanois |
| object accusative | stefanon3×Στέφανον | stefanoin |
| direct address vocative | stefanor | stefanoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | stefanou1×Στεφάνου | stefanoiu |
| to, for dative | stefano2×Στεφάνῳ | stefanoi |
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
stefano 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
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
stefanos“stephen”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 6:8Stefanos de plēros charitau kai dunamiau poiate …Now Stephen, who was full of grace and …
stefanon“stephen”objectaccusative singular3×
Acts 6:5… enōpion panteu teu plētheu, kai eklegela Stefanon, andron plēros pistiau kai pneumeu hagieu, …… pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and …
Acts 7:59kai lithobolale ton Stefanon epikalorōnton kai legarōnton; Kurior Iēsur, dechesar …While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
Acts 8:2sunkomizala de ton Stefanon androis eulabois kai poiala kopeton megon …God-fearing men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.
stefanou“stephen”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 22:20kai hote ekchote tem haimem Stefanou tou marturou su, kai autos ome …… when the blood of Your witness Stephen was shed, I stood there giving …
stefano“stephen”to, fordative singular2×
Acts 6:9… apo Kilikiau kai Asiau suzētarōntois to Stefano,… Cilicia and Asia. They disputed with Stephen,
Acts 11:19… apo tau thlipsiau tau generantau epi Stefano dierchala heōs Foinikau kai Kuprau kai …… by the persecution that began with Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus …