kalos

Strong’sG2568

Fair (in Fair Havens)

stem kal-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.

Καλοὶ Λιμένες,

Fair Havens, a harbour in Crete: Ac 27:8.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2568 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkal-oy' lee-men'-es

Good Harbors, i.e. Fairhaven, a bay of Crete

Fromplural of G2570 and G3040;

King Jamesfair havens.

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

Καλοί Λιμένες
Fair Havens, a harbour in Crete: Act.27:8.†
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)

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.

fair1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	kalos	kalas	kalem	kalois	kalais	kaleim
object accusative	kalon	kalan		kaloin1×Καλοὺς	kalain
direct address vocative	kalor	kalar		kaloir	kalair
of, belonging to genitive	kalou	kalau	kaleu	kaloiu	kalaiu	kaleiu
to, for dative	kalo	kala	kale	kaloi	kalai	kalei

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

kalstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

kal 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

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

kalomō — καλέω, I call, invite, name kalos — καλός, beautiful, good, worthy

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

kaloin“fair”objectaccusative plural1×

Acts 27:8… autan erchana eis topon tinon kalorōnton Kaloin Limēnoin ho engus ate polas Lasaias.… we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.