What does βία (bía) mean in the Bible?
βία (bía) is a Greek word meaning "force".
Greek · G970
βία
Force
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βία G970
Pronunciation bía
What does βία (bía) mean in the Bible?
βία (bía) is a Greek word meaning "force".
Full entry for βία (G970) · Open the biblical lexicon
Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G970?
The BSB source-word alignment has 3 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include force (1), pounding (1), violence (1).
Where does βία (bía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 5:26. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (3).
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 force 1× Acts 5:26
pounding 1× Acts 27:41
violence 1× Acts 21:35
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Acts 5:26
Aligned rows 3
Books represented 1
Acts 3
Source forms
βίας 2x bias Acts 5:26, Acts 27:41
βίαν 1x bian Acts 21:35
Parsing patterns
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular 2x Acts 5:26, Acts 27:41
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 1x Acts 21:35
Evidence Summary
Greek word. force
Strong's G970
Lexical occurrences 3 verses Greek text appearances 4 times Word forms 2 forms 3 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
force
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
4 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Acts 5:26 Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
βίας, biav
force, violence
Read verse Acts 21:35 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
βίαν bian
force, violence
Read verse Acts 24:7 Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
βίας biav
force, violence
Read verse Acts 27:41 Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
βίας biav
force, violence
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 2 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 2 Aligned forms 3 Case pattern Genitive (2) Number pattern Singular (3)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Genitive · Singular · Feminine Acts 5:26 · Acts 27:41 2×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Acts 21:35 1×
Word Origins
βία 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