noun · masculine
artemōnos
Greekἀρτέμων (artemōn)
Strong’sG736
a foresail, set on the bow
stem artemōn-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
*† ἀρτέμων, -ωνος (Rec. -ονος), ὁ
(< ἀρτάω, to fasten to),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G736 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidar-tem'-ohn
properly, something ready (or else more remotely from G142 (compare G740); something hung up), i.e. (specially) the topsail (rather foresail or jib) of a vessel
Fromfrom a derivative of G737;
King Jamesmainsail.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | artemōnos | artemōnois |
| object accusative | artemōnon1×ἀρτέμωνα | artemōnoin |
| direct address vocative | artemōnor | artemōnoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | artemōnou | artemōnoiu |
| to, for dative | artemōno | artemōnoi |
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
artemōno 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
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
artemōnon“foresail”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 27:40“foresail”kai tain ankurain periairaratois easale eis tan thalassan, hama aniēkaratois tain zeuktēriain teiu pēdalieiu, kai epairaratois ton artemōnon ta pnarōta katechale eis ton aigialon.Cutting away the anchors, they left them in the sea as they loosened the ropes that held the rudders. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and made for the beach.