What does στολή (stolḗ) mean in the Bible?
στολή (stolḗ): A flowing garment signifying dignity, honor, or festive occasion; often marks status or ceremonial importance
Greek · G4749
στολή
Robe
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στολή G4749
Pronunciation stolḗ
What does στολή (stolḗ) mean in the Bible?
στολή (stolḗ): A flowing garment signifying dignity, honor, or festive occasion; often marks status or ceremonial importance
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G4749?
The BSB source-word alignment has 9 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include robes (4), robe (3), long robes (2).
Where does στολή (stolḗ) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Mark 12:38. Its strongest book concentrations include Revelation (5), Luke (2), Mark (2).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It robes 4× Revelation 7:9, Revelation 7:13, Revelation 7:14, Revelation 22:14
robe 3× Mark 16:5, Luke 15:22, Revelation 6:11
long robes 2× Mark 12:38, Luke 20:46
Show sample aligned rows
Mark 12:38 στολαῖς to long robes Noun - Dative Feminine Plural Mark 16:5 στολὴν to robe Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Luke 15:22 στολὴν to robe Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Luke 20:46 στολαῖς to long robes Noun - Dative Feminine Plural Revelation 6:11 στολὴ to robe Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Revelation 7:9 στολὰς to robes Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural Revelation 7:13 στολὰς to robes Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural Revelation 7:14 στολὰς to robes Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural Revelation 22:14 στολὰς to robes Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Mark 12:38
Aligned rows 9
Books represented 3
Mark 2 Luke 2 Revelation 5
Source forms
στολὰς 4x stolas Revelation 7:9, Revelation 7:13, Revelation 7:14, Revelation 22:14
στολαῖς 2x stolais Mark 12:38, Luke 20:46
στολὴν 2x stolēn Mark 16:5, Luke 15:22
στολὴ 1x stolē Revelation 6:11
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural 4x Revelation 7:9, Revelation 7:13, Revelation 7:14, Revelation 22:14
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 2x Mark 16:5, Luke 15:22
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural 2x Mark 12:38, Luke 20:46
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular 1x Revelation 6:11
Evidence Summary
Greek word. A flowing garment signifying dignity, honor, or festive occasion; often marks status or ceremonial importance
Strong's G4749
Lexical occurrences 9 verses Greek text appearances 8 times Word forms 4 forms 9 references Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Luke 15:22 Source Gloss
robe
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
A flowing garment signifying dignity, honor, or festive occasion; often marks status or ceremonial importance
(στέλλω), [in LXX chiefly for בֶּגֶד, also for לְבוּשׁ, etc. ;]
11, an equipment, an armament (Æsch.).
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
8 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Mark 12:38 Noun Dative Plural Feminine
στολαῖς stolaiv
a long robe
Read verse Mark 16:5 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
στολὴν stolhn
a long robe
Read verse Luke 15:22 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
στολὴν stolhn
a long robe
Read verse Luke 20:46 Noun Dative Plural Feminine
στολαῖς, stolaiv
a long robe
Read verse Revelation 6:11 Noun Nominative Plural Feminine
στολαὶ stolai
a long robe
Read verse Revelation 7:9 Noun Accusative Plural Feminine
στολὰς stolav
a long robe
Read verse Revelation 7:13 Noun Accusative Plural Feminine
στολὰς stolav
a long robe
Read verse Revelation 7:14 Noun Accusative Plural Feminine
στολὰς stolav
a long robe
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 4 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 4 Aligned forms 9 Case pattern Accusative (6) Number pattern Plural (6)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Feminine Rev 6:11 1×
Dative · Plural · Feminine Mark 12:38 · Luke 20:46 2×
Accusative · Plural · Feminine Rev 7:9 · Rev 7:13 · Rev 7:14 · Rev 22:14 4×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Mark 16:5 · Luke 15:22 2×
Selected Scripture Witness
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
Biblical Witnesses
finest festive garment given to honor restored son
Showing 1 selected witness from 9 lexical occurrence verses.
Word Origins
στολή is built from this root:
Part of These Phrases
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain