verb
bolizamō
Strong’sG1001
I cast the line for sounding, I sound
stem boliz-2 times in the New Testament1 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.
* βολίζω
(< βολίς, in sense of sounding-lead),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1001 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbol-id'-zo
to heave the lead
Fromfrom G1002;
King Jamessound.
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
(βολίς) heave the lead, take soundings, NT:—passive, sink in water, Refs
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
What the New Testament actually uses, first — the whole system this verb is built from is one click further down.
| Form and the Greek behind it | What it is | Usually | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| bolizarantoisβολίσαντες | happened · subjectaorist active participle nominative plural masculine | took soundings | 2× |
Every form the New Testament uses, in paradigm order. What the system can build beyond them — the whole of this verb, whether the text happens to use it or not — is in the tables below.
Every form the system can build — all 86, by mood, including the ones the New Testament never uses
Statements — indicative mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | was happening imperfect | will happen future | happened aorist | has happened perfect | had happened pluperfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I 1st person singular | bolizamō | bolizame | bolizami | bolizama | bolizamē | bolizamelē |
| you 2nd person singular | bolizasō | bolizase | bolizasi | bolizasa | bolizasē | bolizaselē |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | bolizatō | bolizate | bolizati | bolizata | bolizatē | bolizatelē |
| we 1st person plural | bolizanō | bolizane | bolizani | bolizana | bolizanē | bolizanelē |
| ye 2nd person plural | bolizavō | bolizave | bolizavi | bolizava | bolizavē | bolizavelē |
| they 3rd person plural | bolizalō | bolizale | bolizali | bolizala | bolizalē | bolizalelē |
May, might — subjunctive mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|
| I 1st person singular | bolizameiō | bolizameia | bolizameiē |
| you 2nd person singular | bolizaseiō | bolizaseia | bolizaseiē |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | bolizateiō | bolizateia | bolizateiē |
| we 1st person plural | bolizaneiō | bolizaneia | bolizaneiē |
| ye 2nd person plural | bolizaveiō | bolizaveia | bolizaveiē |
| they 3rd person plural | bolizaleiō | bolizaleia | bolizaleiē |
Commands — imperative mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|
| you 2nd person singular | bolizasōr | bolizasar | bolizasēr |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | bolizatōr | bolizatar | bolizatēr |
| ye 2nd person plural | bolizavōr | bolizavar | bolizavēr |
| they 3rd person plural | bolizalōr | bolizalar | bolizalēr |
Wishes — optative mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | happened aorist |
|---|---|---|
| I 1st person singular | bolizamoiō | bolizamoia |
| you 2nd person singular | bolizasoiō | bolizasoia |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | bolizatoiō | bolizatoia |
| we 1st person plural | bolizanoiō | bolizanoia |
| ye 2nd person plural | bolizavoiō | bolizavoia |
| they 3rd person plural | bolizaloiō | bolizaloia |
The “to …” form — infinitive, no occurrences
| Who is acting voice | happening now present | will happen future | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the subject acts active voice | bolizarō | bolizari | bolizara | bolizarē |
Used as an adjective — participle, 2 occurrences
| Who is acting voice | happening now present | will happen future | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the subject acts active voice | bolizarōntos | bolizarintos | bolizarantos2× | bolizarēntos |
Each is given in the form it takes as a subject. From there a participle carries the ordinary noun endings, in every case, number and gender — so these four columns are the whole of what the verb contributes.
How every form is built — the slots that make them
boliz 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
bolizarantois“took soundings”happened · subjectaorist active participle nominative plural masculine2×
Acts 27:28kai bolizarantois heuriskala orguiain eikosi, brachuem de diastēarantois …They took soundings and found that the water was …
Acts 27:28“took soundings”… eikosi, brachuem de diastēarantois kai palin bolizarantois heuriskala orguiain dekapente;… water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.