noun · feminine
thēkas
Strong’sG2336
a scabbard, sheath, receptacle
stem thēk-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.
θήκη, -ης, ἡ
(< τίθημι), [in LXX: Ex 25:26(27) (בַּיִת), Is 6:13 (מַצֶּבֶת) Is 3:26*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2336 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidthay'-kay
a receptacle, i.e. scabbard
Fromfrom G5087;
King Jamessheath.
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
(τίθημι) case, chest, χρυσοῦ θ. a money-chest, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 grave, tomb, Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰς ἀναισχύντους θ. ἐτράποντο modes of burial, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 ξίφους θ. sword-sheath, Refs 2nd c.AD+; τόξου bow-case, Refs
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 | thēkas | thēkais |
| object accusative | thēkan1×θήκην | thēkain |
| direct address vocative | thēkar | thēkair |
| of, belonging to genitive | thēkau | thēkaiu |
| to, for dative | thēka | thēkai |
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
thēka 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
thēkan“sheath”objectaccusative singular1×
John 18:11… Petro; Balasar tan machairan eis tan thēkan; tem potēriem hem dōatē mi tos …“Put your sword back in its sheath!” Jesus said to Peter. “Shall I …