noun · neuter
kētem
Strong’sG2785
a sea monster, huge fish
stem kēt-once in the New Testament1 of 6 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.
κῆτος, -εος (-ους), τό,
[in LXX: Jh 2:1, 11 (דָּג), Ge 1:21 (תַּנִּין), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2785 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkay'-tos
a huge fish (as gaping for prey)
Fromprobably from the base of G5490;
King Jameswhale.
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
any sea-monster or huge fish, δελφῖνάς τε κύνας τε καὶ εἴ ποθι μεῖζον ἑλῃσι κῆτος Refs 8th c.BC+; of seals, Refs 8th c.BC+; of the monster to which Andromeda was exposed, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the tunny, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 in Natural History, of the spouting cetacea, Refs 4th c.BC+
II name of a constellation, Refs 4th c.BC+
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 or object direct | kētem | kēteim |
| of, belonging to genitive | kēteu1×κήτους | kēteiu |
| to, for dative | kēte | kētei |
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
kēte 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
kēteu“huge fish”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Matthew 12:40“huge fish”… ate Iōnos en ta koilia teu kēteu treis hēmerain kai treis nuktain, houtōs …For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son …