adverb
chamai
Strong’sG5476
on or to the ground
stem chamai-2 times in the New Testamentnever changes form
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.
χαμαί
adv.,G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5476 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkham-ah'-ee
earthward, i.e. prostrate
Fromadverb perhaps from the base of G5490 through the idea of a fissure in the soil;
King Jameson (to) the ground.
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
adverb on the ground, χ. ἧσθαι Refs 8th c.BC+; of birds, ποιεῖν νεοττιὰν χ., opposed to ἐπὶ δένδρου, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, ἐσλὸν χ. σιγᾷ καλύψαι to bury in silence underground, Refs 5th c.BC+; χ. ἐρχόμενοι cleaving to earth, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II ={χαμᾶζε}, to earth, ἐν κονίῃσι χ. πέσεν Refs 8th c.BC+to the ground, NT+5th c.BC+. (Cf. Latin humus, humi, Lithuanian ž[etilde]mė 'earth'.)
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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
chamai2×
John 9:6houteim legarantos ptuata chamai kai poiata pēlon ek teu ptusmeu, …… Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it …
John 18:6… aperchala eis teim opisō kai piptala chamai.… He,” they drew back and fell to the ground.