noun · masculine
kofinos
Strong’sG2894
a large basket
stem kofin-6 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 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.
κόφινος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX: Jg 6:19 (סַל), Ps 80 (81):6 (דּוּד)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2894 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkof'-ee-nos
a (small) basket
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesbasket.
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
basket, accusative to Refs 5th c.BC+; in later times used specially by Jews, NT+1st c.AD+
II Boeotian measure, containing nine Attic choenices, i.e. about two gallons, κ. σίτου 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 | kofinos | kofinois1×κόφινοι |
| object accusative | kofinon | kofinoin4×κοφίνους |
| direct address vocative | kofinor | kofinoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kofinou | kofinoiu1×κοφίνων |
| to, for dative | kofino | kofinoi |
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
kofino 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.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
kofinois“baskets”subjectnominative plural1×
Luke 9:17“baskets”… kai airita tem perisseuarantem autoi klasmeiu kofinois dōdeka.… satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
kofinoin“baskets”objectaccusative plural4×
Matthew 14:20“baskets”… airala tem perisseuarōntem teiu klasmeiu dōdeka kofinoin plēroin.… satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
Matthew 16:9“baskets”… pente artoin toiu pentakischilioi kai posoin kofinoin labava?… remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?
Mark 8:19“baskets”… artoin klama eis toin pentakischilioi, posoin kofinoin klasmeiu plēroin airava? legalō auto; Dōdeka.When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Twelve,” they answered.
John 6:13sunagala oun, kai gemizala dōdeka kofinoin klasmeiu ek toiu pente artoiu toiu …… they collected them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five …
kofinoiu“baskets”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Mark 6:43“baskets”kai airala klasmeim dōdeka kofinoiu plērōmeim kai apo toiu ichthoiu.and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish.