Φῆστος
Festus
Thayer's lists 2 entries for ‘Festus’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Nominative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 7 times (54%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 3 times (23%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (8%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 1 time (8%)
- Noun, Vocative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (8%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 13 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5347 appears — 13 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts 13 verses
- Acts 24:27 Φῆστον n acc sg masc But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.
- Acts 25:1 Φῆστος n nom sg masc Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
- Acts 25:4 Φῆστος n nom sg masc However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.
- Acts 25:9 Φῆστος n nom sg masc But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, "Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by me there concerning these things?"
- Acts 25:12 Φῆστος n nom sg masc Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, "You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go."
- Acts 25:13 Φῆστον n acc sg masc Now when some days had passed, Agrippa the King and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus.
- Acts 25:14 Φῆστος n nom sg masc As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying, "There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;
- Acts 25:22 Φῆστον n acc sg masc Agrippa said to Festus, "I also would like to hear the man myself." "Tomorrow," he said, "you shall hear him."
- Acts 25:23 Φήστου n gen sg masc So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.
- Acts 25:24 Φῆστος n nom sg masc Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
- Acts 26:24 Φῆστος n nom sg masc As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!"
- Acts 26:25 Φῆστε n voc sg masc But he said, "I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.
- Acts 26:32 Φήστῳ n dat sg masc Agrippa said to Festus, "This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar."
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, Φηστος (Phēstos) means “Festus.” The word gravitates to Acts (100%). It turns up in 13 verses across 1 book, an uncommon footprint. Scripture first uses it in Acts 24:27. Dig into 13-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5347 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 →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #863
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 863 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 13 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 13 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
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 13 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 13 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Festus 12×
- American Standard Version: Festus 12×
- Berean Standard Bible: Festus 13×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Festus 13×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5347 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5347 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5347 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5347 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses 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.
- [Porcius] Festus = "festival"
- the successor of Felix as procurator of Judea
Word origin
Origin: of Latin derivation
Of Latin derivation; festal ; Phestus (that is Festus ) a Roman : - Festus.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G5347 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Φῆστος Phē̂stos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 25:1 | 7 |
| Φῆστον Phē̂ston | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 24:27 | 3 |
| Φήστου Phḗstou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Acts 25:23 | 1 |
| Φήστῳ Phḗstō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 26:32 | 1 |
| Φῆστε Phē̂ste | Noun, Vocative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 26:25 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Festus). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
festive, joyful
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
