noun · feminine
thessalonikas
Strong’sG2332
Thessalonica
stem thessalonik-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 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.
θεσσαλονίκη, -ης, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2332 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidthes-sal-on-ee'-kay
Thessalonice, a place in Asia Minor
Fromfrom Θεσσαλός (a Thessalian) and G3529;
King JamesThessalonica.
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
Thessalonica, a city of Macedonia:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
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 | thessalonikas | thessalonikais |
| object accusative | thessalonikan2×Θεσσαλονίκην | thessalonikain |
| direct address vocative | thessalonikar | thessalonikair |
| of, belonging to genitive | thessalonikau1×Θεσσαλονίκης | thessalonikaiu |
| to, for dative | thessalonika2×Θεσσαλονίκῃ | thessalonikai |
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
thessalonika 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
thessalonikan“Thessalonica”objectaccusative singular2×
Acts 17:1… Amfipolian kai tan Apollōnian erchala eis Thessalonikan, hopou ate sunagōgas toiu Ioudaioiu.… Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
2 Timothy 4:10… ton nun aiōnon, kai poreuita eis Thessalonikan, Krēskos eis Galatian, Titos eis Dalmatian;… has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and …
thessalonikau“Thessalonica”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 17:13hōs de gnōskala tois apo tau Thessalonikau Ioudaiois hoti kai en ta Beroia …But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming …
thessalonika“Thessalonica”to, fordative singular2×
Acts 17:11“Thessalonica”houtois de ale eugenoterois toiu en Thessalonika, hotinois dechela ton logon meta pantau …Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness …
Philippians 4:16hoti kai en Thessalonika kai hapax kai dis eis tan …For even while I was in Thessalonica, you provided for my needs again …