noun · feminine
stegas
Strong’sG4721
a flat roof of a house
stem steg-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 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.
στέγη, -ης, ἡ
(< στέγω) [in LXX: Ge 8:13 (מִכְסֶה), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4721 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsteg'-ay
a roof
Fromstrengthened from a primary τέγος (a "thatch" or "deck" of a building);
King Jamesroof.
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 dialectand Aeolic dialect στέγα, ἡ, roof, NT+5th c.BC+; παρέχειν τινὶ σ. give one shelter, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 ceiling, Refs 7th c.BC+
II roofed place, chamber, room, Refs 5th c.BC+; covered vestibule, Refs; ἕρκειος σ., of a tent, Refs 5th c.BC+; a hare's seat or form, Refs; ἐκ κατώρυχος σ., of the grave, Refs
II.2 storey of a house, Refs 3rd c.BC+; ἡ ἀνωτάτη σ. Refs 1st c.BC+; αἱ στέγαι the upper storeys, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 frequently in plural, house, dwelling, Refs 4th c.BC+; κατὰ στέγας at home, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπελεῦσαι τῷ ἀνδρὶ ἐπὶ στέγαν to the man's house, Refs 5th c.BC+
III deck of a ship, in Latin stega, Refs 3rd 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 | stegas | stegais |
| object accusative | stegan3×στέγην | stegain |
| direct address vocative | stegar | stegair |
| of, belonging to genitive | stegau | stegaiu |
| to, for dative | stega | stegai |
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
stega 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
stegan“roof”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 8:8… amō hikanos hina mu hupo tan stegan eiserchaseia; alla monem legasar logo, kai …… to have You come under my roof. But just say the word, and …
Mark 2:4… auto dia ton ochlon apostegazala tan stegan hopou ate, kai exorussarantois chalalō ton …… through the crowd, they uncovered the roof above Him, made an opening, and …
Luke 7:6… gar hikanos amō hina hupo tan stegan mu eiserchaseia;… to have You come under my roof.