Greek adjective · G4575
σεβαστός
sebastosseb-as-tos'
reverend, august.; In late writers, with reference to
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sebastós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4575is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4575
venerable (august), i.e. (as noun) a title of the Roman Emperor, or (as adjective) imperial
The King James renders it: Augustus(-').
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
sebastos is rendered "reverend, august.; In late writers, with reference to". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "reverend, august.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 25:21But when Paul appealed to be held over for the decision of the Emperor, I ordered that he be held until I could send him to Caesar.”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
But when Paul appealed to be held over for the decision of the Emperor, I ordered that he be held until I could send him to Caesar.”
Acts 25:21Σεβαστοῦ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Acts.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: reverend, august., and In late writers, with reference to.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| reverend, august. | Tagged as
| WhereActs 25:21But when Paul appealed to be held over for the decision of the Emperor… |
| In late writers, with reference tothe Roman Imperial name | Tagged as
| WhereActs 25:21But when Paul appealed to be held over for the decision of the Emperor… |
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 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- Σεβαστῆς1
- Σεβαστὸν1
- Σεβαστοῦ1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular1A-ASM-T
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1A-GSF-P
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1A-GSM-T
Acts
three uses
But when Paul appealed to be held over for the decision of the Emperor, I ordered that he be held until I could send him to Caesar.”
- Σεβαστοῦsebastouadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: Emperor's
But I found he had done nothing worthy of death, and since he has now appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.
- Σεβαστὸνsebastonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: Emperor
When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment.
- Σεβαστῆςsebastesadjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of Augustus
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.