Greek noun (masculine) · G5
Ἀββᾶ
Abbaab-bah'
Abba
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Abbâ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5
father as a vocative
The King James renders it: Abba.
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
Abba is rendered "Abba". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 14:36“Abba, Father,” He said, “all things are possible for You. Take this cup from Me. Yet not what I will, but what You will.”
The first use
“Abba, Father,” He said, “all things are possible for You. Take this cup from Me. Yet not what I will, but what You will.”
Mark 14:36αββα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Mark.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Abba3
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.
1 spelling 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
- αββα3
The grammar of each form
- noun · vocative (address) · masculine singular3N-VSM-T
Mark
one use
“Abba, Father,” He said, “all things are possible for You. Take this cup from Me. Yet not what I will, but what You will.”
- αββαabbanoun · vocative (address) · masculine singulartagged: Abba
Romans
one use
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
- αββαabbanoun · vocative (address) · masculine singulartagged: Abba
Galatians
one use
And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
- αββαabbanoun · vocative (address) · masculine singulartagged: Abba
Where it leads
On this page
Studies1
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.