noun · feminine
kolumbēthras
Strong’sG2861
a pool, swimming-place
stem kolumbēthr-3 times in the New Testament2 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.
κολυμβήθρα, -ας, ἡ
(< κολυμβάω), [in LXX for בְּרֵכָה, IV Ki 18:27, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2861 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkol-oom-bay'-thrah
a diving-place, i.e. pond for bathing (or swimming)
Fromfrom G2860;
King Jamespool.
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
place for diving, swimming-bath, Refs 5th c.BC+
II wine-vat, tun, Refs 1st c.BC+
III reservoir, cistern, LXX
IV baptismal font, Refs 6th 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 | kolumbēthras1×κολυμβήθρα | kolumbēthrais |
| object accusative | kolumbēthran2×κολυμβήθραν | kolumbēthrain |
| direct address vocative | kolumbēthrar | kolumbēthrair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kolumbēthrau | kolumbēthraiu |
| to, for dative | kolumbēthra | kolumbēthrai |
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
kolumbēthra 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
kolumbēthras“pool”subjectnominative singular1×
John 5:2… en tei Hierosolumei epi ta probatika kolumbēthras tas epilegorōntas Hebraisti Bēthesda, pente stoain …… Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in …
kolumbēthran“pool”objectaccusative singular2×
John 5:7… tem hudem balateia min eis tan kolumbēthran; en ho de erchomō mis allosos …… one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While …
John 9:7… legata auto; Hupagasōr niptesar eis tan kolumbēthran tou Silōam hem hermēneuotō Apostelorēntos. aperchata …… told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So …