noun · neuter
kōlem
Strong’sG2966
a limb, bodies
stem kōl-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.
κῶλον, -ου, τό,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2966 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidko'-lon
a limb of the body (as if lopped)
Fromfrom the base of G2849;
King Jamescarcase.
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
limb, member of a body, especially leg, Refs 5th c.BC+: mostly in plural, Refs 5th c.BC+: generally, of arms and legs, and of animals, fore and hind legs, τὰ ἐμπρόσθια κ. Refs 5th c.BC+
2 ={κωλῆ}Refs 4th c.BC+
3 of plants, limb, arm, σκολιῆς ἄγρια κ. βάτου Refs 4th c.BC+: in plural, also, internodes of the νάρθηξ, Refs 1st c.AD+
II generally, member,
II.1 of a building, side or front, of a square or triangular building, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.1.b upright of a ladder, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 limb or lap of the race-course, διαύλου θάτερον κ. Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 Rhet., member or clause of a περίοδος, Refs 5th c.BC+; στίξομεν κατὰ κῶλον Castor in Refs W.; διελὼν πρὸς κῶλον, of Origen in his Hexapla, Refs 4th c.AD+
II.4 in verse, metrical unit containing fewer than three συζυγίαι without catalexis, Refs 7th c.AD+ element of a στροφή, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.5 ῥινοῦ ἐΰστροφα κ., poetry for a sling, Refs
II.6 incorrect form for κόλον (which see), Refs 6th c.AD+; compare κωλικός.
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 | kōlem | kōleim1×κῶλα |
| of, belonging to genitive | kōleu | kōleiu |
| to, for dative | kōle | kōlei |
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
kōle 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
kōleim“bodies”subject or objectdirect plural1×
Hebrews 3:17… eteim? ouchi toi hamartarantoi, hoiu teim kōleim piptata en ta erēma?… not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?