noun · masculine
kokkos
Strong’sG2848
a kernel, grain
stem kokk-7 times in the New Testamentin 5 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.
κόκκος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX: La 4:5 B א R (תּוֹלָע), Si 45:11*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2848 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkok'-kos
a kernel of seed
Fromapparently a primary word;
King Jamescorn, grain.
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
grain, seed, as of the pomegranate, Refs 5th c.BC+; κ. Βαβυλώνιος Refs 2nd c.AD+; of the poppy, Refs 3rd c.BC+; of the pine, Refs; of wheat, Refs 3rd c.AD+; of weeds in corn, Refs 6th c.AD+; compare Κνίδιος: metaphorically, νόου δέ μοι οὐκ ἔνι κ. not a grain of sense, Refs
2 a measure, Refs 1st c.AD+
II 'berry' (gall) of kermes oak, used to dye scarlet, Refs 4th c.BC+: hence, scarlet (the colour), Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 κ. or κ. βαφική, ἡ, kermes oak, Quercus coccifera, Refs 1st c.AD+
III pill, Refs 6th c.AD+
IV in plural, testicles, Refs 2nd c.AD+
IV.2 pudenda muliebria, Refs 5th 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 | kokkos1×κόκκος | kokkois |
| object accusative | kokkon3×κόκκον | kokkoin |
| direct address vocative | kokkor | kokkoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kokkou | kokkoiu |
| to, for dative | kokko3×κόκκῳ | kokkoi |
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
kokko 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.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
kokkos“grain”subjectnominative singular1×
John 12:24“grain”… amēn legamō vi, ean mē tos kokkos tou sitou piptarantos eis tan gēan …Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and …
kokkon“seed”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 17:20… legamō vi, ean echaveiō pistian hōs kokkon sinapieu, legavi te ore houte; Metabainasar …… faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain …
Luke 17:6… tos kurios; Ei echavō pistian hōs kokkon sinapieu, legave an ta sukamina houta; …… faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry …
1 Corinthians 15:37… sōmem tem generintem sperasō alla gumnon kokkon ei tuchatoia sitou ē tineu teiu …… that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.
kokko“seed”to, fordative singular3×
Matthew 13:31… Homoias atō tas basileias toiu ouranoiu kokko sinapieu, hon labarantos anthrōpos sperata en …… of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted …
Mark 4:31hōs kokko sinapieu, hos hotan speriteia epi tau …It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all …
Luke 13:19homoias atō kokko sinapieu, hon labarantos anthrōpos balata eis …It is like a mustard seed that a man tossed into his …