noun · feminine

komas

Greekκόμη (komē)

Strong’sG2864

hair, long hair

stem kom-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

hair1×

What it means

κόμη, -ης, ἡ,

[in LXX: Nu 6:5, Ez 44:20 (פֶּרַע), al.;]

the hair: I Co 11:15.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2864 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkom'-ay

the hair of the head (locks, as ornamental, and thus differing from G2359; which properly denotes merely the scalp)

Fromapparently from the same as G2865;

King Jameshair.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	komas1×κόμη	komais
object accusative	koman	komain
direct address vocative	komar	komair
of, belonging to genitive	komau	komaiu
to, for dative	koma	komai

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

komstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

koma 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

Words built on the same stem

komamō — κομάω, I wear the hair long

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

komas“hair”subjectnominative singular1×

1 Corinthians 11:15“hair”gunaikas de ean komateiō, doxas auta atō? hoti tas komas anti peribolaieu dōitē.but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.