noun · neuter
dōmem
Strong’sG1430
the top of the house
stem dōm-7 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 of 6 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.
δῶμα, -τος, τό
(< δέμω, to build), [in LXX for גָּג;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1430 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddo'-mah
properly, an edifice, i.e. (specially) a roof
Fromfrom δέμω (to build);
King Jameshousetop.
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
(δέμω) house, πατρώϊον ἵκετο δ. Refs 8th c.BC+; mainly poetry, but once in Refs 5th c.BC+, but never in Attic dialect Prose: also, chief room, hall, θάλαμον καὶ δ. καὶ αὐλήν Refs 8th c.BC+: hence, plural for a single house, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of the gods, ἀθάνατοι Ὀλύμπια δώματ᾽ ἔχοντες Refs 8th c.BC+; frequently of Pluto, δῶμ᾽ Ἀΐδαο the nether world, Refs 8th c.BC+; of a temple, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 δῶμα Καδμεῖον, i.e. Thebes, Refs
4 housetop, LXX+NT+2nd c.AD+
II household, family, Refs 5th c.BC+; compare δῶ.
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 or object direct | dōmem | dōmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | dōmeu3×δώματος | dōmeiu2×δωμάτων |
| to, for dative | dōme | dōmei |
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
dōme 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.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
dōmeu“housetop”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Matthew 24:17tos epi teu dōmeu mē katabainatar airara teim ek tau …Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from …
Mark 13:15tos epi teu dōmeu mē katabainatar mēde eiserchatar tinem airara …Let no one on the housetop go back inside to retrieve anything …
Luke 17:31… ta hēmera hos eti epi teu dōmeu kai teim skeveim autou en ta …… day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions …
dōmeiu“housetops”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Matthew 10:27… tem ouem akouavō, kērussavar epi teiu dōmeiu.… in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.
Luke 12:3… en tei tameiei kērussiti epi teiu dōmeiu.… rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.
dōmem2×
Luke 5:19… dia ton ochlon anabainarantois epi tem dōmem dia toiu keramoiu kathiēkala auton sun …… So they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat …
Acts 10:9“housetop”… pola engizarōntoiu anabainata Petros epi tem dōmem proseuchera peri hōran hektan.… day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.