noun · masculine
gomos
Strong’sG1117
a cargo, freight
stem gom-3 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.
γόμος, -ου, ὁ
(< γέμω), [in LXX: Ex 23:5, IV Ki 5:17 (מַשָּׂא) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1117 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidgom'-os
a load (as filling), i.e. (specially) a cargo, or (by extension) wares
Fromfrom G1073;
King Jamesburden, merchandise.
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
(γέμω) ship's freight, cargo, Refs 4th c.BC+; πεντακισχιλίων ταλάντων γόμον ἔχειν to be of 5,000 talents burden, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 beast's load, LXX+2nd c.AD+; γ. καμηλικός Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 guild of transport-agents in Nubia, Refs
II γὁμος· ζωμός, 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 | gomos | gomois |
| object accusative | gomon3×γόμον | gomoin |
| direct address vocative | gomor | gomoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | gomou | gomoiu |
| to, for dative | gomo | gomoi |
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
gomo 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
gomon“cargo”objectaccusative singular3×
Acts 21:3… gar tem ploiem ate apofortizorōntem ton gomon.… the ship was to unload its cargo.
Revelation 18:11… kai penthalō epi autan, hoti ton gomon autoiu oudenos agorazatō ouketi,… no one left to buy their cargo —
Revelation 18:12gomon chrusou kai argurou kai lithou timiou …cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and …