noun · feminine

kōas

GreekΚώς (kōs)

Strong’sG2972

Cos

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

Translated as

Cos1×

What it means

Κῶς, gen. Κῶ, ἡ,

Cos, an island in the Ægean Sea: acc. Κῶ, Ac 21:1 (Κῶν, Rec.).†

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

Strong’s G2972 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkoce

Cos, an island in the Mediterranean

Fromof uncertain origin;

King JamesCos.

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	kōas	kōais
object accusative	kōan1×Κῶ	kōain
direct address vocative	kōar	kōair
of, belonging to genitive	kōau	kōaiu
to, for dative	kōa	kōai

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

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

kōa 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

kōan“Cos”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 21:1“Cos”Hōs de gineta anagira nin apospiratoin apo autoiu, euthudromaratois erchana eis tan Kōan, ta de hexēs eis tan Rodan, kakeithen eis Patareim;After we had torn ourselves away from them, we sailed directly to Cos, and the next day on to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.