noun · masculine
fōleos
Strong’sG5454
a burrow, hole
stem fōle-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
* φωλεός, -οῦ ὁ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5454 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfo-leh-os'
a burrow or lurking-place
Fromof uncertain derivative;
King Jameshole.
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
Epic dialect genitive φωλειοῖο Refs 2nd c.BC+, Epic dialect dative φωλειοῖς Refs 3rd c.AD+:—den, lair, especially of the caves of bears, in which they hibernate, Refs 1st c.AD+; of lions, Refs 2nd c.AD+; of molluscs, Refs 4th c.BC+; of a serpent, Refs 2nd c.AD+; of foxes, NT; of animals in general, Refs 2nd c.AD+; of cave-dwellers, Refs 1st c.BC+
II schoolhouse, Refs 5th 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 | fōleos | fōleois |
| object accusative | fōleon | fōleoin2×φωλεοὺς |
| direct address vocative | fōleor | fōleoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | fōleou | fōleoiu |
| to, for dative | fōleo | fōleoi |
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
fōleo 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
fōleoin“holes”objectaccusative plural2×
Matthew 8:20“holes”… legatō auto tos Iēsus; Tais alōpekais fōleoin echalō kai teim peteineim tou ouranou …Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of …
Luke 9:58“holes”… legata auto tos Iēsus; Tais alōpekais fōleoin echalō kai teim peteineim tou ouranou …Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of …