Greek proper noun (a place) · G116
Ἀθῆναι
Athenaiath-ay-nahee
Athens
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Athēnai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G116is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G116
Athenæ, the capitol of Greece
The King James renders it: Athens.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Athenai is rendered "Athens". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 17:15Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then returned with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then returned with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.
Acts 17:15Ἀθηνῶν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's four uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Athens4
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- Ἀθήναις2
- Ἀθηνῶν2
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural2N-DPF-L
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural2N-GPF-L
Acts
three uses
Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then returned with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.
- Ἀθηνῶνathenonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: Athens
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.
- Ἀθήναιςathenaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: Athens
After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
- Ἀθηνῶνathenonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: Athens
1 Thessalonians
one use
So when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left on our own in Athens.
- Ἀθήναιςathenaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: Athens
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.