komas

Strong’sG2864

hair, long hair

stem kom-once in the New Testament1 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.

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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

κόμ-η, ἡ,
hair of the head, Refs 8th c.BC+; κόμαι Χαρίτεσσιν ὁμοῖαι (i.e. κόμαις Χαρίτων) Refs 8th c.BC+; κόμην κείρειν, κείρεσθαι (see. κείρω); κόμην τρέφειν to let the hair grow long, Refs 5th c.BC+; κόμη δι᾽ αὔρας ἀκτένιστος ᾄσσεται Refs 5th c.BC+; κόμαι πρόσθετοι false hair, wig, Refs 5th c.BC+; δοῦλος ὢν κόμην ἔχει; Refs 5th c.BC+; κόμης ἀνάπλεως unkempt, Refs 1st c.AD+
2 of the beard, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 gill or branchia of the cuttlefish, uncertain in Refs 4th c.BC+: plural, arms or suckers, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II metaphorically, foliage of trees, Refs 8th c.BC+; of herbs, Refs 1st c.AD+; of corn, ληΐου κ. Refs 2nd c.AD+; especially ={τραγοπώγων}, Refs 4th c.BC+
III luminous tail of a comet, Refs 4th 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.

hair1×

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	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

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

komamō — κομάω, I wear the hair long

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

komas“hair”subjectnominative singular1×

1 Corinthians 11:15… komateiō, doxas auta atō? hoti tas komas anti peribolaieu dōotē.… it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a …