noun · masculine

bōmos

Greekβωμός (bōmos)

Strong’sG1041

an altar

stem bōm-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

altar1×

What it means

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.

Every form

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

bōmon“altar”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 17:23“altar”diercherōtos gar kai anatheōrarōtos teim sebasmeim vu heuriskama kai bōmon en ho epigrafitelē; Agnōsto theo. hem oun agnoarōtois eusebavō, houtem mis katangellamō vi.For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.