noun · masculine
borros
Strong’sG1005
the north wind, the North
stem borr-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
βορρᾶς, -ᾶ (Attic contr. of Βορέας, the North wind personified),
[in LXX for צָפֹון;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1005 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbor-hras'
the north (properly, wind)
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesnorth.
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
[in LXX for צָפוֹן ;]
__1. Boreas, the North wind.
__2. the north:
† (From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
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 | borros | borrois |
| object accusative | borron | borroin |
| direct address vocative | borror | borroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | borrou2×βορρᾶ | borroiu |
| to, for dative | borro | borroi |
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
borro 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
borrou“north”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Luke 13:29… apo anatolaiu kai dusmaiu kai apo borrou kai notou kai anaklinili en ta …… come from east and west and north and south, and will recline at …
Revelation 21:13apo anatolau pulōnois treis, kai apo borrou pulōnois treis, kai apo notou pulōnois …… on the east, three on the north, three on the south, and three …