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Ἰοῦστος

Ioûstos · G2459 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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This name belongs to 3 people

Meanings

  1. Justus

    An additional name of Joseph Barsabbas, one of two candidates for the place of Judas Iscariot

    Examples

    Acts 1:23 So they put forward two men, Joseph called Barsabbas (who was also called Justus), and Matthias.

  2. Justus

    An additional name of Titius, a Jewish proselyte )

    Examples

    Acts 18:7 Then he left the synagogue and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

  3. Justus

    Jesus called Justus, a companion of Paul

    Examples

    Colossians 4:11 and also Jesus who is called Justus; these are the only fellow workers for the kingdom of God who are from the circumcision, and they have proved to be an encouragement to me.

How it’s used In 2 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 is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 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 4 entries
Titius93.363
In Acts 18:7, it is written that Paul “went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue,” naming this man by his first name, Titius.
Justus93.179a
In Acts 1:23, it is written, “they put forward two men, Joseph called Barsabbas (who was also called Justus), and Matthias,” naming this candidate to replace Judas directly.
Justus93.179b
In the same verse, Acts 18:7, the same man is also identified by the surname Justus.
Justus93.179c
In Colossians 4:11, among Paul's fellow workers it is written, “and also Jesus who is called Justus,” naming this third, different man who bears the same surname.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Ἰούστου, ὁ, Justus (cf. Lightfoot on Col 4:11), the surname 1. of Joseph, a convert from…
Ἰούστου, ὁ, Justus (cf. Lightfoot on Col 4:11), the surname
1. of Joseph, a convert from Judaism, who was also surnamed Barsabas (better Barsabbas which see): Acts 1:23.
2. of Titus, a Corinthian (a Jewish proselyte): Acts 18:7.
3. of a certain Jesus (a Jewish Christian): Col 4:11.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Persons3 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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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