noun · feminine
surias
Strong’sG4947
Syria
stem suri-8 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 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.
Συρία, -ας, ή
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4947 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsoo-ree'-ah
Syria (i.e. Tsyria or Tyre), a region of Asia
Fromprobably of Hebrew origin ();
King JamesSyria.
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
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 | surias | suriais |
| object accusative | surian6×Συρίαν | suriain |
| direct address vocative | suriar | suriair |
| of, belonging to genitive | suriau2×Συρίας | suriaiu |
| to, for dative | suria | suriai |
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
suria 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.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
surian“Syria”objectaccusative singular6×
Matthew 4:24… tas akoas autou eis holan tan Surian; kai prosferala auto pantoin toin kakōs …News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all …
Acts 15:23… adelfois toi kata tan Antiocheian kai Surian kai Kilikian adelfoi toi ek ethneiu …… brothers among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.
Acts 15:41dierchote de tan Surian kai tan Kilikian epistērizarōntos tain ekklēsain.And he traveled through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
Acts 18:18… toi adelfoi apotasserantos ekplate eis tan Surian, kai sun auto Priskillas kai Akulos, …… made, and then he sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila.
Acts 20:3… toiu Ioudaioiu mellarōnto anagorō eis tan Surian geneta gnōmau teu hupostrefarō dia Makedoniau.… he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through …
Acts 21:3… kai kataleiparantois autan euōnuman plane eis Surian, kai katerchana eis Turan, ekeise gar …… of it, we sailed on to Syria and landed at Tyre, where the …
suriau“Syria”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Luke 2:2houtas apografas prōtas geneta hēgemoneuarōntou tau Suriau Kurēniou;… place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.
Galatians 1:21epeita erchama eis teim klimeim tau Suriau kai tau Kilikiau.… I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.