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noun · feminine

trietias

Greekτριετία (trietia)

Strong’sG5148

a space of three years

stem trieti-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

three years

What it means

* τριετία, -ας, ἡ

(< τρεῖς, ἔτος),

a period of three years: Ac 20:31.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5148 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidtree-et-ee'-ah

a three years' period (triennium)

Fromfrom a compound of G5140 and G2094;

King Jamesspace of three years.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativetrietiastrietiais
object accusativetrietianτριετίανtrietiain
direct address vocativetrietiartrietiair
of, belonging to genitivetrietiautrietiaiu
to, for dativetrietiatrietiai

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
trietistem+agender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

trietia 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

trietian“three years”objectaccusative singular

Acts 20:31“three years”dio grēgoravōr, mnēmoneuarōtois hoti trietian nuxan kai hēmeran ouk pauema meta dakrueiu nouthetarōtos henon hekaston.Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.