noun · feminine
boas
Strong’sG995
a shout
stem bo-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.
βοή, -ῆς, ἡ,
[in LXX for זְעָקָה, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G995 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbo-ay'
a halloo, i.e. call (for aid, etc.)
Fromfrom G994;
King Jamescry.
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
Doric dialect βοά, ἡ, loud cry, shout, in Refs 8th c.BC+ mostly battle-cry, βοὴν ἀγαθός Refs 8th c.BC+; βοᾶς δ᾽ ἔτι μηδ᾽ ὄνομ᾽ εἴη let there be not even the name of war, Refs; later of prayer, Ἑλληνικὸν νόμισμα θυστάδος β. Refs 4th c.BC+; κακοφάτιδα β. cry of mourning, Refs 5th c.BC+; also, song of joy, ἴτω ξύναυλος βοὰ χαρᾷ Refs 5th c.BC+; of oracles, ἀείδουσα.. βοὰς ἂς ἂν Ἀπόλλων κελαδήσῃ Refs 5th c.BC+; shout, murmur of a crowd, Refs 5th c.BC+; of things, roar of the sea, Refs 8th c.BC+; sound of musical instruments, αὐλοὶ φόρμιγγές τε βοὴν ἔχον Refs 8th c.BC+; cry of birds, Refs 5th c.BC+; βοὴν θωΰσσειν, ἀϋτεῖν, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅσον καὶ ἀπὸ βοῆς ἕνεκα as far as sound went, only in appearance, Refs 5th c.BC+
II ={βοήθεια}, aid called for, succour, Refs 5th c.BC+. (g[uglide]o[uglide]ā, cf. Sanskrit jō-guvē (intensive of gávatē) 'proclaim aloud'.)
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 | boas | boais1×βοαὶ |
| object accusative | boan | boain |
| direct address vocative | boar | boair |
| of, belonging to genitive | boau | boaiu |
| to, for dative | boa | boai |
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
boa 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
boais“cries”subjectnominative plural1×
James 5:4… afusterorēntos apo vu krazatō, kai tais boais toiu therizarantoiu eis teim oueim Kuriou …… are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the …