noun · masculine
turannos
Strong’sG5181
Tyrannus
stem turann-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.
Τύραννος, -ου, ὀ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5181 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtoo'-ran-nos
a "tyrant"; Tyrannus, an Ephesian
Froma provincial form of the derivative of the base of G2962;
King JamesTyrannus.
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
also ἡ (see. below 1.2), an absolute ruler, unlimited by law or constitution, first in Refs, where it is used of a god, Ἆρες,.. ἀντιβίοισι τύρανν; so ὁ τῶν θεῶν τ., of Zeus, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὦ τύραννε τᾶς ἐμᾶς φρενός, i.e. Apollo, Refs 5th c.BC+; Μὴν Τύραννος, a Phrygian deity worshipped in Attica, Refs 1st c.AD+; οὔ, τὴν τ. (perhaps Hera), in an oath, Refs 3rd c.BC+: first used of monarchs in the time of Refs 7th c.BC+; interchangeable with βασιλεύς in Refs 5th c.BC+; later, chief, princeling, Refs 1st c.BC+; τ. ἴδιοι καθ᾽ ἕκαστον ἐμτπόριον Refs 5th c.BC+; Κλεισθένης ὁ Σικυῶνος τ., Ἱστιαῖος ὁ Μιλήτου τ., etc., Refs; ὁ τῶν Κυπρίων τ. Refs 2nd c.AD+; οἱ τ., of the Sicilian tyrants, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the Pisistratidae, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ τ. the monarchical party, προδιδοὺς τοῖς τ. τὴμ πόλιν τὴν Ἐρυθραίων Refs: frequently in a bad sense, δημοφάγος τ. Refs 6th c.BC+
2 in a wider sense, of members of the ruler's family, οἱ τ. 'the royal house', Refs 2nd c.AD+ is used both of the queen herself and the king's daughter, princess, Refs 5th c.BC+; πρέπει γὰρ ὡς τ. εἰσορᾶν, of Clytemnestra, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 metaphorically, ἵνα Δίκη τ. ᾖ that Justice may be supreme, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 golden-crested wren, Regulus cristatus, Refs 4th c.BC+
II τύραννος, ον, as adjective, kingly, royal, τύραννα σκῆπτρα Refs 5th c.BC+; τύραννα δρᾶν to act as a king, Refs 5th c.BC+; τύραννον δῶμα the king's palace, Refs; τ. δόμος the royal house, Refs; ἐς τύρανν᾽ ἐγημάμην into the royal house, Refs
II.2 imperious, despotic, τ. πόλις 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 | turannos | turannois |
| object accusative | turannon | turannoin |
| direct address vocative | turannor | turannoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | turannou1×Τυράννου | turannoiu |
| to, for dative | turanno | turannoi |
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
turanno 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
turannou“Tyrannus”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 19:9… kata hēmeran dialegorōntos en ta schola Turannou.… discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.