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Ἄβελ

Ábel · G6 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Abel

    The second son of Adam and Eve and the brother of Cain

    Examples

    Matthew 23:35 so that upon you will fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

    Luke 11:51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged against this generation.’

    Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he was attested to be righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.

How it’s used In 4 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

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 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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In the other Testament 1 word
הֶבֶל Hebel · H1893 · breeze, worthless idol
The Hebrew name of Abel, son of Adam, behind the Greek form of the name.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Abel93.3
This proper name identifies Abel, the son of Adam, as in Hebrews 11:4's statement that by faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he was attested to be righteous.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (WH Ἅβ. (see their Introductory § 408)), indeclinable proper name (in Josephus (e. g.…
(WH Ἅβ. (see their Introductory § 408)), indeclinable proper name (in Josephus (e. g. Antiquities 1, 2, 1) Ἄβελος, ), חֶבֶל (breath, vanity), Abel, the second son born to Adam (Gen 4:2ff), so called from his short life and sudden death (cf. B. D. American edition, p. 5), (Job 7:16; Ps 39:6): Mt 23:35; Lk 11:51; Heb 11:4; Heb 12:24.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Persons4 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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