noun · feminine
bolas
Strong’sG1000
a casting, throw
stem bol-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.
βολή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< βάλλω), [in LXX: Ge 21:16 (טחה), II Mac 5:3, III Mac 5:26 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1000 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbol-ay'
a throw (as a measure of distance)
Fromfrom G906;
King Jamescast.
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
throw:
1 stroke or wound of a missile (opposed to πληγή, of sword or pike), Refs 8th c.BC+shafts of love, Refs; βολαῖς.. σφόγγος ὤλεσεν γραφήν by its stroke or touch, Refs 4th c.BC+; swing of ἁλτῆρες, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 κύβων βολαί throws or casts of dicc, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 metaphorically, β. ὀφθαλμῶν quick glances, Refs 8th c.BC+
4 β. κεραύνιοι thunder-bolts, Refs 4th c.BC+; βολαὶ ἡλίου sun-beams, Refs 5th c.BC+; χρυσοῦ.. βολαῖς with golden rays, of a statue, Refs 3rd c.AD+; βολαὶ χιόνος radiance, Refs 5th c.BC+
5 βολαί, ={ὠδῖνες}, Refs 6th c.AD+
6 payment, ἀποδώσω ἐπὶ βολαῖς δυσίν Refs 6th 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 | bolas | bolais |
| object accusative | bolan1×βολήν | bolain |
| direct address vocative | bolar | bolair |
| of, belonging to genitive | bolau | bolaiu |
| to, for dative | bola | bolai |
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
bola 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
bolan“throw”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 22:41… autos apospita apo autoiu hōsei lithou bolan, kai titharantos teim gonueim proseuchoteAnd He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, where He knelt down …