noun · masculine

kōnōpsos

Greekκώνωψ (kōnōps)

Strong’sG2971

a gnat, mosquito

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

Translated as

gnat1×

What it means

* κώνωψ, -ωπος, ὁ,

a gnat: Mt 23:24.†

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

Strong’s G2971 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidko'-nopes

a mosquito (from its stinging proboscis)

Fromapparently a derivative of the base of G2759 and a derivative of G3700;

King Jamesgnat.

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	kōnōpsos	kōnōpsois
object accusative	kōnōpson1×κώνωπα	kōnōpsoin
direct address vocative	kōnōpsor	kōnōpsoir
of, belonging to genitive	kōnōpsou	kōnōpsoiu
to, for dative	kōnōpso	kōnōpsoi

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

kōnōpsstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

kōnōpso 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

kōnōpson“gnat”objectaccusative singular1×

Matthew 23:24“gnat”hodēgoir tufloir, toir diulizarōtoir ton kōnōpson tan de kamēlan katapinarōtoir.You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.