bōmos

Strong’sG1041

an altar

stem bōm-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.

βωμός, -οῦ, ὁ

(< βαίνω), [in LXX (Hex.) for מִזְבֵּחַ, in Proph., chiefly for בָּמָה;]

1. any raised place, a platform.

2. an altar: Ac 17:23 (cf. θυσιαστήριον and v. DB, i, 75).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1041 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidbo'-mos

properly, a stand, i.e. (specially) an altar

Fromfrom the base of G939;

King Jamesaltar.

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

βωμός, ὁ,
(βαίνω) raised platform, stand, for chariots, Refs 8th c.BC+; base of a statue, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 mostly, altar with a base, ἱερὸς β. Refs 8th c.BC+; of suppliants, ποτὶ βωμὸν ἵζεσθαι Refs 8th c.BC+; βωμοῖσι προσῆσθαι, προσπεσόντα βωμῷ καθῆσθαι, Refs 5th c.BC+: also in Prose, β. ἱδρύσασθαι Refs 5th c.BC+
3 later, tomb, cairn, Refs
4 title of poems by Dosiades and Besantinus, Refs 2nd c.AD+
5 altar-shaped cake, Refs 2nd c.AD+
6 Ζεὺς Βωμός, probably a Syrian god, Refs
7 central fire in the system of Philolaus, accusative to Refs
8 in plural, ={ἔμβολοι}, Refs 5th 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.

altar1×

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	bōmos	bōmois
object accusative	bōmon1×βωμὸν	bōmoin
direct address vocative	bōmor	bōmoir
of, belonging to genitive	bōmou	bōmoiu
to, for dative	bōmo	bōmoi

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

bōmstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

bōmo 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

bōmon“altar”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 17:23… anatheōrarōntos teim sebasmeim vu heuriskama kai bōmon en ho epigrafotelē; Agnōsto theo. hem …… of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN …