Σιλᾶς

See also: Σίλας and Σιλάς

Ancient Greek

Borrowed from Aramaic שְׁאִילָא‎ (šəʾīlā) (intermediately Σεειλᾶς, Σειλᾶς). Compare Hebrew שָׁאוּל‎ (shaúl), English Saul.

Σιλᾶς • (Silâs) m (genitive Σιλᾶ); first declension

Aramaic nouns ending in aleph were commonly borrowed into Ancient Greek as first declension masculine nouns, thus the ending -ᾶς.
Biblically attested both as Σίλας and Σιλᾶς.

First declension of ὁ Σιλᾶς; τοῦ Σιλᾶ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Σιλᾶς ho Silâs
Genitive	τοῦ Σιλᾶ toû Silâ
Dative	τῷ Σιλᾷ tôi Silâi
Accusative	τὸν Σιλᾶν tòn Silân
Vocative	Σιλᾶ Silâ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

G4609 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Moulton, W. F.; Marshall, I. Howard (June 2002). A Concordance to the Greek Testament (Greek). T. & T. Clark Publishers, 6th Ed. pp. 974.

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