noun · masculine
bounos
Strong’sG1015
a hillock, hill
stem boun-2 times in the New Testament2 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.
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
hill, mound, Cyrenaic word, accusative to LXX+5th c.BC+
2 heap of stones, etc., LXX
II clot of blood, Refs 5th c.AD+
III altar, Refs 5th c.AD+
IV ={στιβάς} Refs 2nd 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.
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 | 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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
bounos“hill”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 3:5… farangas plēriti kai pantem orem kai bounos tapeiniti, kai eti teim skolieim eis …… filled in, and every mountain and hill made low. The crooked ways shall …
bounoi“hills”to, fordative plural1×
Luke 23:30… orei; Piptavar epi nin, kai toi bounoi; Kaluptavar nin;… Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’