noun · feminine
surakousas
GreekΣυράκουσαι (surakousai)
Strong’sG4946
Syracuse
stem surakous-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
Συράκουσαι, -ῶν, αἱ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4946 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsoo-rak'-oo-sahee
Syracuse, the capital of Sicily
Fromplural of uncertain derivation;
King JamesSyracuse.
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 | surakousas | surakousais |
| object accusative | surakousan | surakousain1×Συρακούσας |
| direct address vocative | surakousar | surakousair |
| of, belonging to genitive | surakousau | surakousaiu |
| to, for dative | surakousa | surakousai |
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
surakousa 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
surakousain“Syracuse”objectaccusative plural1×
Acts 28:12“Syracuse”kai katagiratois eis Surakousain epimenana hēmerain treis,Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.