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Ἡλίας

Hēlías · G2243 · Greek · 29 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Elijah

    A major OT prophet

    Examples

    Matthew 11:14 “And if you are willing to accept it, John himself is Elijah who was to come.

    Matthew 16:14 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah, or one of the other prophets.”

    Matthew 17:3 And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him.

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

12 occurrences in 5 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

4 occurrences in 3 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 3 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Elijah93.142
In Matthew 17:3, at the transfiguration, “Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him,” naming this Old Testament prophet directly.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ((so Rst elz G; WH Ἠλείας cf. WHs Appendix, p. 155; Tdf. Proleg., p. 84 and see εἰ, ἰ,…
((so Rst elz G; WH Ἠλείας cf. WHs Appendix, p. 155; Tdf. Proleg., p. 84 and see εἰ, ἰ, but) L Tr Ἡλιάς, Tdf. Ἡλείας (on the breathing in manuscripts see Tdf. Proleg., p. 107; WH. Introductory § 408; current edd, are not uniform)), ἡλίου (Buttmann, 17 (16), 8; but once (viz. Lk 1:17 T Tr marginal reading WH) Ἠλίᾳ), ὁ (אֵלִיָּה or אֵלִיָּהוּ i. e. either 'strength of Jehovah' or 'my God is Jehovah'), Elijah, a prophet born at Thisbe (but see B. D. under the word, also under the word ), the unflinching champion of the theocracy in the reigns of the idolatrous kings Ahab and Ahaziah. He was taken up to heaven without dying, whence the Jews expected he would return just before the advent of the Messiah, whom he would prepare the minds of the Israelites to receive (1 Kings 17-19; 2 Kgs 2:6ff; 2 Chr 21:12; Mal 4:4 (Mal. 3:22>); Sir. 48:1, 4, 12 (cf. Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, Appendix viii.)): Mt 11:14; Mt 16:14; Mt 17:3f, 10-12; Mt 27:47, Mt 27:49; Mk 6:15; Mk 8:28; Mk 9:4; Mk 9:11-13; Mk 15:35; Lk 1:17; Lk 4:25; Lk 9:8, Lk 9:19, Lk 9:30, Lk 9:33, Lk 9:54 (R G L); Jn 1:21, Jn 1:25; Jas 5:17; ἐν Ἠλίᾳ, in the narrative concerning Elijah, Rom 11:2 (see ἐν, I. 1 d.).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Persons29 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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