Βαρσαβᾶς
Barsabas
Thayer's lists 3 entries for ‘Barsabas’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G923 appears — 2 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 2 verses
- Acts 1:23 Βαρσαββᾶν n acc sg masc They put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
- Acts 15:22 Βαρσαββᾶν n acc sg masc Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.
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.
Βαρσαβας — transliterated Barsabâs — is a Greek name carrying the sense “Barsabas.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Acts. It first appears in Acts 1:23. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G923 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 2 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 2 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 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: Barsabas 2×
- American Standard Version: Barsabbas 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Barsabbas 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Barsabbas 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G923 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G923 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G923 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G923 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 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.
- Barsabas = "son of Sabas"
- the surname of a certain Joseph ( Acts 1:23 )
- the surname of a certain Judas ( Acts 15:22 )
Word origin
Derived from בר (bar) (H1247) — son.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G923, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- Βαραββας Barabbâs G912 Barabbas
- Βαρθολομαιος Bartholomaîos G918 Bartholomew
- Βαριησους Bariēsoûs G919 Bar-Jesus
- Βαριωνας Bariōnâs G920 Cephas
- Βαρναβας Barnábas G921 Barnabas
- Βαρτιμαιος Bartimaîos G924 Bartimaeus
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 6 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Barsabas). 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
Son of Saba, the surname (1) of Joseph, also called Justus (Acts 1:23), some identify him with Barnabas; (2) of Judas, who was a "prophet." Nothing more is known of him than what is mentioned in Acts 15:32.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(son of Sabas or rest). [Joseph BARSABAS; Judas BARSABAS]
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
son of return; son of rest
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
