noun · feminine
galēnas
Strong’sG1055
a calm
stem galēn-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 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.
* γαλήνη, -ης, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1055 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidgal-ay'-nay
tranquillity
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamescalm.
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
stillness of the sea, calm (γ. μὲν ἐν θαλάσσῃ νηνεμία δ᾽ ἐν ἀέρι Refs 8th c.BC+; οἱ δ᾽ ἐλόωσι γαλήνην will sail the calm sea, Refs; stillness of deep waters, Refs 5th c.BC+: metaphorically of the mind, calmness, serenity, φρόνημα νηνέμου γαλάνας Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐν γαλήνῃ in calm, quiet, Refs 5th c.BC+
II lead sulphide, galena, Refs 1st c.AD+
III name of an antidote, Refs 1st c.AD+ accusative to Refs 6th c.AD+; perhaps akin to γελάω.)
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 | galēnas3×γαλήνη | galēnais |
| object accusative | galēnan | galēnain |
| direct address vocative | galēnar | galēnair |
| of, belonging to genitive | galēnau | galēnaiu |
| to, for dative | galēna | galēnai |
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
galēna 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
galēnas“calm”subjectnominative singular3×
Matthew 8:26… anemoi kai ta thalassa, kai geneta galēnas megas.… the sea, and it was perfectly calm.
Mark 4:39… kai kopazata tos anemos, kai geneta galēnas megas.… died down, and it was perfectly calm.
Luke 8:24… teu hudeu, kai pauela, kai geneta galēnas.… and they subsided, and all was calm.