Φῆστος
Phēstos · G5347 · Greek · 13 occurrences
Person
- Portiusfirst named in Acts 24:2712 verses
Meanings
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Festus
Porcius Festus, the successor to Felix as procurator of Palestine; see Πόρκιος (Pórkios, G4201)
ExamplesActs 24:27 But after two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and Felix, wanting to do the Jews a favor, left Paul imprisoned.
Acts 25:1 Festus, then, after arriving in the province, went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea three days later.
Acts 25:4 Festus then answered that Paul was being kept in custody in Caesarea, and that he himself was about to leave shortly.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κράτιστοςexcellency 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Πόρκιοςapparently swinish 1
What it doesIt is the subject
8 occurrences in 6 groups
- φημίto say 2
- ἀποκρίνομαιto answer 2
- ἔπωto say 1
- κελεύωto order 1
- ἀναβαίνωto go up, to come up 1
- ἀνατίθεμαιto explain 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀσπάζομαιto greet, to send greetings 1
It is given or told toIndirect object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- φημίto say 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πρόςto, toward, with 1
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
- Festus93.376
- Acts 24:27 recounts that when two years had passed, Felix was succeeded “by Porcius Festus”.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Φήστου, ὁ (Porcius) Festus, a procurator of Judaea, the successor of Felix (c. A.D. 60)…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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