noun · feminine
ankalas
Strong’sG43
an arm
stem ankal-once in the New Testament1 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.
ἀγκάλη, -ης, ἡ
(< ἄγκος, a bend), [in LXX for אַצִּיל, חֵיק;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G43 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidang-kal'-ay
an arm (as curved)
Fromfrom ἄγκος (a bend, "ache");
King Jamesarm.
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
bent arm, mostly in plural, ἐν ἀγκάλαιςRefs 5th c.BC+; without ἐν, ἀγκάλαις ἔχειν, περιΦέρειν, Refs 5th c.BC+; πρὸς ἀγκάλαις πεσεῖνRefs: rarely in singular, Refs 6th c.BC+
2 bend of knee, Refs 5th c.AD+
II metaphorically, anything closely enfolding, κυμάτων ἐν ἀγκάλαιςRefs 7th c.BC+; of the air, γῆν..ἔχονθ᾽ ὑγραῖς ἐν ἀ.Refs 5th c.BC+
III bundle, sheaf, Refs 1st 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 | ankalas | ankalais |
| object accusative | ankalan | ankalain1×ἀγκάλας |
| direct address vocative | ankalar | ankalair |
| of, belonging to genitive | ankalau | ankalaiu |
| to, for dative | ankala | ankalai |
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
ankala 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
ankalain“arms”objectaccusative plural1×
Luke 2:28kai autos decheta autem eis tain ankalain kai eulogata ton theon kai legata;Simeon took Him in his arms and blessed God, saying: