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Ταβιθά

Tabithá · G5000 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Tabitha

    The Aramaic name of a Christian woman in Joppa whose name was interpreted as Δορκάς

    Examples

    Acts 9:36 Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which when translated means Dorcas); this woman was excelling in acts of kindness and charity which she did habitually.

    Acts 9:40 But Peter sent them all out and knelt down and prayed, and turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Tabitha93.355
Luke records, “in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which when translated means Dorcas); this woman was excelling in acts of kindness and charity which she did habitually” (Acts 9:36).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (WH Ταβειθα, see their Appendix, p. 155, and under the word εἰ, ἰ; the better accent…
(WH Ταβειθα, see their Appendix, p. 155, and under the word εἰ, ἰ; the better accent seems to be Ταβιθά (see Kautzsch, as below)), ἡ (טְבִיתָא, a Chaldean name in the 'emphatic state' (Kautzsch, Gram. d. Biblical-Aram. as above with, p. 11, writes it טַבְיְתָא, stative emphatic of טַבְיָא), Hebrew צְבִי, i. e. δορκάς, which see), Tabitha, a Christian woman of Joppa, noted for her works of benevolence: Acts 9:36, Acts 9:40. (Cf. B. D., under the word .)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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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