noun · masculine
suros
Strong’sG4948
Syrian
stem sur-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.
Σύρος, -ου, ὁ, fem. Σύρα,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4948 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsoo'-ros
a Syran (i.e. probably Tyrian), a native of Syria
Fromfrom the same as G4947;
King JamesSyrian.
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
Syrian, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the Λευκόσυροι, Refs 5th c.BC+; frequently used as a slave's name, Refs 4th c.BC+:—feminine Σύρα, Refs 5th c.BC+. --Syria was called Σῠρία, Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ Φοινίκη Σ. Refs 1st c.BC+; Κοίλη Σ. between Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon, see at {κοῖλο; ἡ ἄνω Σ}. (uncertain reading) Refs 1st c.BC+.--The Syrians were also called Σύριοι, a name which in early times was given to the Assyrians, Refs 5th c.BC+; and to the Cappadocians or Λευκόσυροι Refs 5th c.BC+; Σ. Καππαδόκαι (variant{Σ. καὶ} K.) Refs.-- adjective Σύριος [ῠ], α, ον, Refs 5th c.BC+; Σ. πύλαι (see. πύλη Refs:—also Σῠριᾰκός, ή, όν, Refs 4th c.BC+-- adverb Σῠρίηθεν from Syria, Refs 2nd 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 | suros1×Σύρος | surois |
| object accusative | suron | suroin |
| direct address vocative | suror | suroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | surou | suroiu |
| to, for dative | suro | suroi |
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
suro 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
suros“Syrian”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 4:27… autoiu katharizita, ei mē Naiman tos Suros.… them was cleansed— only Naaman the Syrian.”