noun · feminine
farangas
Strong’sG5327
a valley, ravine
stem farang-once in the New Testament1 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.
φάραγξ, -αγγος, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for נַחַל, also for גַּיְא, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5327 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
cleft, chasm, especially in a mountain side, ravine, gully, Refs 7th c.BC+, etc.; πᾶσα φ. πληρωθήσεται LXX+5th c.BC+of the cave, Refs 5th c.BC+; φάραγγα δακτύλου πιάσματι σύρει, of shaping a roll before it is baked, Refs 5th c.BC+
II metaphorically, of the anus, Refs 3rd c.BC+
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 | farangas1×φάραγξ | farangais |
| object accusative | farangan | farangain |
| direct address vocative | farangar | farangair |
| of, belonging to genitive | farangau | farangaiu |
| to, for dative | faranga | farangai |
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
faranga 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
farangas“valley”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 3:5pantas farangas plēriti kai pantem orem kai bounos …Every valley shall be filled in, and every …