noun · masculine
kludōnos
Strong’sG2830
rough water
stem kludōn-2 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.
κλύδων, -ωνος, ὁ
(κλύζω, of the sea, to wash over), [in LXX: Jh 1:4, 12 (סער), al.;]
SYN.: κῦμα, a wave.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2830 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkloo'-dohn
a surge of the sea (literally or figuratively)
Fromfrom κλύζω (to billow or dash over);
King Jamesraging, wave.
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
wave, billow, and collectively, surf, rough water, Refs 8th c.BC+; κ. πελάγιος, θαλάσσιος, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 in Medicine texts, splashing in the stomach and chest, Refs 2nd c.AD+; of sound heard in pleurisy, Refs; ἢν κ. ὑγρῶν ἀναπνέῃ ἐς τὰς διαπνοάς flood of humours, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ofinternal water in dropsy, Refs
II metaphorically, κ. κακῶν sea of troubles, Refs 5th c.BC+; κ. ἔφιππος flood of chariots, Refs 5th 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 nominative | kludōnos | kludōnois |
| object accusative | kludōnon | kludōnoin |
| direct address vocative | kludōnor | kludōnoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kludōnou | kludōnoiu |
| to, for dative | kludōno2×κλύδωνι | kludōnoi |
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
kludōno 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
kludōno“wave”to, fordative singular2×
Luke 8:24… diegeirirantos epitimata to anemo kai to kludōno teu hudeu, kai pauela, kai geneta …… and rebuked the wind and the raging waters, and they subsided, and all …
James 1:6… mēdenem diakrinorōntos, tos gar diakrinorōntos eoikatē kludōno thalassau anemizorōnto kai ripizorōnto;… he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed …