noun · feminine
kalamēas
Strong’sG2562
stubble
stem kalamē-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.
καλάμη, -ης, ἡ
(cf. κάλαμος), [in LXX chiefly for קַשׁ, Ex 5:12, Is 5:24, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2562 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkal-am'-ay
a stalk of grain, i.e. (collectively) stubble
Fromfeminine of G2563;
King Jamesstubble.
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
(see. κάλαμος) stalk, especially the stalk or straw of corn, metaphorically in Refs 8th c.BC+, i.e. when there is much straw and little harvest, much slaughter and little profit, Refs 8th c.BC+; κ. πυρῶν wheat-straw, Refs 5th c.BC+; proverbial of a greedy farmer, πυροὺς ἐπὶ καλάμῃ ἀροῦν to exhaust ground by one corn-crop after another, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 stubble, NT+4th c.BC+ thou mayst still, I ween, perceive the stubble (i.e. the residue) of former strength, Refs 8th c.BC+; Ῥήσου κ. the remains of Rhesus, i.e. his corpse, Oracle texts cited in Refs 2nd c.AD+; ἀπὸ τῆς κ. τεκμαίρεσθαι to judge from the remains, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 κολχὶς κ., ={λίνον}, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II ={κάλαμος}, Refs 3rd 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 | kalamēas | kalamēais |
| object accusative | kalamēan1×καλάμην | kalamēain |
| direct address vocative | kalamēar | kalamēair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kalamēau | kalamēaiu |
| to, for dative | kalamēa | kalamēai |
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
kalamēa 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
kalamēan“straw”objectaccusative singular1×
1 Corinthians 3:12… chruson, arguron, lithoin timioin, xuleim, chorton, kalamēan,… silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,