noun · masculine
koros
Greekκόρος (koros)
Strong’sG2884
a dry measure, 120 gallons
stem kor-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
κόρος, -ου, ὁ
(Heb. כֹּר), [in LXX: Le 27:16, Nu 11:32, Ez 45:13 (חֹמֶר); more freq., II Ch 27:5, al.(כֹּר);]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2884 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkor'-os
a cor, i.e. a specific measure
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King Jamesmeasure.
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 | koros | korois |
| object accusative | koron | koroin1×κόρους |
| direct address vocative | koror | koroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | korou | koroiu |
| to, for dative | koro | koroi |
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
koro 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
koroin“measures”objectaccusative plural1×
Luke 16:7“measures”epeita hetero legata; Sis de posem ofeilasō? tos de legata; Hekaton koroin sitou; legatō auto; Dechesar su teim grammeim kai grafasar ogdoēkonta.Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your bill and write eighty,’ he told him.