noun · feminine
surakousas
Strong’sG4946
Syracuse
stem surakous-once in the New Testament1 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.
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Refs 5th c.BC+; Ionic dialect Σῠρήκουσαι Refs 5th c.BC+; Doric dialect Σῠράκοσαι Refs 5th c.BC+; also Σῠράκοσσαι, Refs 5th c.BC+ (Συράκουσσ- Papyrus, as also Refs: Σῠράκουσα, ἡ, Refs 1st c.BC+, Συράκουσσα Hdn.Gr.Refs 4th c.AD+; Σῠράκοσα, Refs 1st c.BC+; also Σῠρακώ, οῦς, ἡ, Refs 5th c.BC+.-- adjective Σῠρᾱκόσιος, α, ον, “Syracusan”, and as substantive a Syracusan, BMus.Cat.Coins Sicily Refs 3rd c.BC+; Ionic dialect and poetry Σῠρηκόσιος Refs 5th c.BC+; a form Σῠρακόσσιος Refs; Σῠρακούσιος Refs 5th c.BC+; Συρρακούσιος variant in Refs 4th c.AD+; feminine Σῠρᾰκοσσίς, γλῶσσα Refs 4th c.AD+ —ἡ Συρακοσία [χώρα] the territory of S., Refs 5th c.BC+, proverbial of luxurious living, Refs 5th c.BC+:—Σῠρᾱκοσεύς, έως, ὁ, Refs 5th c.AD+
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 | 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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
surakousain“Syracuse”objectaccusative plural1×
Acts 28:12kai katagirantois eis Surakousain epimenana hēmerain treis,Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.