noun · masculine
aigialos
Strong’sG123
sea-coast, beach
stem aigial-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
αἰγιαλός, -οῦ, ὁ (on the derivation, v. Boisacq, s.v.),
[in LXX: Jg 5:17 (חוֹף), Si 24:14*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G123 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidahee-ghee-al-os'
a beach (on which the waves dash)
Fromfrom ἀΐσσω (to rush) and G251 (in the sense of the sea;
King Jamesshore.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
sea-shore, beach, Refs 8th c.BC+; distinguished from ἀκτή, Refs 5th c.BC+; αἰγιαλὸν ἔνδον τρέφει a whole beach of voting-pelbles, Refs 5th c.BC+, of deaf persons, Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | aigialos | aigialois |
| object accusative | aigialon6×αἰγιαλὸν | aigialoin |
| direct address vocative | aigialor | aigialoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | aigialou | aigialoiu |
| to, for dative | aigialo | aigialoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
aigialo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
aigialon“shore”objectaccusative singular6×
Matthew 13:2… kai pantos tos ochlos epi ton aigialon stēatelē.… all the people stood on the shore.
Matthew 13:48“shore”han hote plērita anabibazarantois epi ton aigialon kai kathizarantois sullegala teim kaleim eis …When it was full, the men pulled it ashore. Then they sat down and sorted the good fish into containers, but …
John 21:4… ēdē generantau stēata Iēsus eis ton aigialon; ouk mentoi oidalelē tois mathētois hoti …… the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not recognize …
Acts 21:5… kai titharantois teim gonueim epi ton aigialon proseucherantois… city and knelt down on the beach to pray with us.
Acts 27:39… epignōskale, kolpon de tinon katanoale echarōnton aigialon eis hon bouleuole ei dunoloiō exōthara …… sighted a bay with a sandy beach, where they decided to run the …
Acts 27:40… artemōnon ta pnarōnta katechale eis ton aigialon.… the wind and made for the beach.