noun · masculine
bounos
Greekβουνός (bounos)
Strong’sG1015
a hillock, hill
stem boun-2 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
βουνός, -οῦ, ὁ (a Cyrenaїc word, Hdt., iv, 199),
[in LXX chiefly for גִּבְעָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1015 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidboo-nos'
a hillock
Fromprobably of foreign origin;
King Jameshill.
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 | bounos1×βουνὸς | bounois |
| object accusative | bounon | bounoin |
| direct address vocative | bounor | bounoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | bounou | bounoiu |
| to, for dative | bouno | bounoi1×βουνοῖς |
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
bouno 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
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
bounos“hill”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 3:5“hill”pantas faranxas plēriti kai pantem orem kai bounos tapeiniti, kai eti teim skolieim eis euthuan kai tais trachuais eis hodain leiain;Every valley shall be filled in, and every mountain and hill made low. The crooked ways shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth.
bounoi“hills”to, fordative plural1×
Luke 23:30“hills”tote archeli legarō tei orei; Piptavar epi nin, kai toi bounoi; Kaluptavar nin;At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’