noun · feminine
ammoas
Strong’sG285
sand
stem ammo-5 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 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.
ἄμμος, -ου, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for חוֹל;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G285 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidam'-mos
sand (as heaped on the beach)
Fromperhaps from G260;
King Jamessand.
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
or ἅμμος (compare ὕφ-αμμος), ἡ,
A sand, Refs 5th c.BC+
A.II sandy ground, racecourse, Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | ammoas3×ἄμμος | ammoais |
| object accusative | ammoan2×ἄμμον | ammoain |
| direct address vocative | ammoar | ammoair |
| of, belonging to genitive | ammoau | ammoaiu |
| to, for dative | ammoa | ammoai |
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
ammoa 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
ammoas“sand”subjectnominative singular3×
Romans 9:27… arithmos toiu huioiu Israēl hōs tas ammoas tau thalassau, tem hupoleimmem sōziti;… of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant …
Hebrews 11:12… ouranou te plēthe kai hōs tas ammoas tas para tem cheilem tau thalassau …… sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
Revelation 20:8… hoiu tos arithmos autoiu hōs tas ammoas tau thalassau.… battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.
ammoan“sand”objectaccusative singular2×
Matthew 7:26… oikodomata autou tan oikian epi tan ammoan.… man who built his house on sand.
Revelation 12:18“sand”kai stēita epi tan ammoan tau thalassau.