Greek n--lg · G2956
Κυρηναῖος
Kyrenaioskoo-ray-nah'-yos
Cyrene
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Kyrēnaîos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2956is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2956
i.e. Cyrenæan, i.e. inhabitant of Cyrene
The King James renders it: of Cyrene, Cyrenian.
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
Kyrenaios is rendered "Cyrene". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 27:32Along the way they found a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross of Jesus.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Along the way they found a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross of Jesus.
Matthew 27:32Κυρηναῖον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- of Cyrene3
- Cyrenian1
- Cyrenians1
- from Cyrene1
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 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- Κυρηναῖον3
- Κυρηναῖοι1
- Κυρηναῖος1
- Κυρηναίων1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular3N-ASM-LG
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1N-GPM-LG
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1N-NPM-LG
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM-LG
Matthew
one use
Along the way they found a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross of Jesus.
- Κυρηναῖονkurenaionnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: of Cyrene
Mark
one use
Now Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and the soldiers forced him to carry the cross of Jesus.
- Κυρηναῖονkurenaionnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: of Cyrene
Luke
one use
As the soldiers led Him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him to carry behind Jesus.
- Κυρηναῖονkurenaionnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: from Cyrene
Acts
three uses
But resistance arose from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and men from the provinces of Cilicia and Asia. They began to argue with Stephen,
- Κυρηναίωνkurenaionnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: Cyrenians
But some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks as well, proclaiming the good news about the Lord Jesus.
- Κυρηναῖοιkurenaioinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: of Cyrene
Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.
- Κυρηναῖοςkurenaiosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Cyrenian
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.