noun · feminine
tarsas
Strong’sG5019
Tarsus
stem tars-3 times in the New Testament2 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.
Ταρσός, -οῦ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5019 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtar-sos'
Tarsus, a place in Asia Minor
Fromperhaps the same as ταρσός (a flat basket);
King JamesTarsus.
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
Attic dialect ταρρός, ὁ: also with irregular plural ταρσά, τά, Refs 3rd c.AD+: (τέρσομαι):— frame of wicker-work, crate, flat basket, for drying cheeses on, ταρσοὶ μὲν τυρῶν βρῖθον Refs 8th c.BC+: generally, basket, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 mat of reeds, such as were built into brickwork to bind it together, ταρσοὶ καλάμων Refs 5th c.BC+; τ. καλάμου Refs 5th c.BC+
3 mass of matted roots, Refs 4th c.BC+
II of various broad flat surfaces, resembling a ταρσός Refs
II.1 τ. ποδός flat of the foot. the part between the toes and the heel, Refs 8th c.BC+ (but also, palm of the hand, Refs 1st c.AD+: generally, foot, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.1.b palm of the hand, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.1.c ankle, Refs 2nd c.AD+; but distinguished from σφυρόν, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 τοὺς τ. τῶν κωπέων the rows of oars on the sides of ships, Refs 5th c.BC+; so τοὺς τ. alone, Refs 5th c.BC+: sing., oar, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 τ. πτερύγων flat of the outstretched wing, Refs 1st c.BC+: absolutely, wing, Refs 1st c.BC+: of a peacock's tail, Refs 2nd c.BC+; ταρσοί feathers, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.4 τ. ὀδόντων the row of teeth in a saw, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.5 Pan's pipe, ταρσῷ Πὰν ὁ μελιζόμενος Refs
II.6 edge of the eyelid and its lashes, Refs 5th 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 | tarsas | tarsais |
| object accusative | tarsan2×Ταρσόν | tarsain |
| direct address vocative | tarsar | tarsair |
| of, belonging to genitive | tarsau | tarsaiu |
| to, for dative | tarsa1×Ταρσῷ | tarsai |
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
tarsa 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
tarsan“Tarsus”objectaccusative singular2×
Acts 9:30… eis Kaisareian kai exapostelala auton eis Tarsan.… Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
Acts 11:25exerchata de eis Tarsan anazētara Saulon,Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul,
tarsa“Tarsus”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 22:3Mis amō andros Ioudaios, gennorēntos en Tarsa tau Kilikiau, anatreforēntos de en ta …“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this …