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Διονύσιος

Dionysius

G1354 Strong's Greek
Dionýsios Transliteration
/dee-on-oo'-see-os/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 1 appearance

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About this entry

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“Dionysius” is the headline sense of the Greek name Διονυσιος (Dionýsios). With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Acts. It occurs only once, in Acts 17:34. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Dionysius
Modern gloss
Dionysius
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G1354 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
Acts 17:34
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Acts 17:34.
#3,503
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 1 · 100%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 100%

How translations render this word

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  • King James Version: Was dionysius 1×
  • American Standard Version: Dionysius 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Dionysius 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Dionysius 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1354 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Was dionysius” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1354 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Dionysius” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1354 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Dionysius” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1354 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Dionysius” 1×

Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. Dionysius = "devoted to Bacchus"

Word origin

Origin: from Dionusos (Bacchus)

Part of speech: Noun Masculine

From Διόνυσος Dionusos ( Bacchus ); reveller ; Dionysius an Athenian : - Dionysius.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Dionysius). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

The Areopagite, one of Paul's converts at Athens (Acts 17:34).

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(devoted to Dionysus, i.e., Bacchus) the Areop'agite, (Acts 17:34) an eminent Athenian, converted to Christianity by the preaching of St. Paul. (A.D. 52.) He is said to have been first bishop of Athens. The writings which were once attributed to him are now confessed to be the production of some neo-Platonists of the sixth century.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

divinely touched

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