noun · neuter
kraniem
Strong’sG2898
a skull
stem krani-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books1 of 6 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.
κρανίον, -ου, τό
(< κάρα, the head), [in LXX: Jg 9:53, IV Ki 9:35 (גֻּלְגֹּלֶת)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2898 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkran-ee'-on
a skull ("cranium")
Fromdiminutive of a derivative of the base of G2768;
King JamesCalvary, skull.
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
(κάρα) upper part of the head, skull (κεφαλῆς τὸ τριχωτὸν μέρος Refs 4th c.BC+; of horses, ὅθι τε πρῶται τρίχες ἵππων κρανίῳ ἐμπεφύασι Refs 8th c.BC+; of men, Refs 5th c.BC+: generally, head, Refs 4th c.BC+
II headache, Refs
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.
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 or object direct | kraniem | kranieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | kranieu3×Κρανίου | kranieiu |
| to, for dative | kranie | kraniei |
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
kranie 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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
kranieu“skull”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Matthew 27:33… eis topon legorōnton Golgothan, hem atō Kranieu Topos legorōntos,… which means The Place of the Skull,
Mark 15:22… ton Golgothan topon, hem atō methermēneuorōntem Kranieu Topos.… which means The Place of the Skull.
John 19:17… ton stauron exerchata eis ton legorōnton Kranieu Topon, hem legotō Hebraisti Golgothas,… out to The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.
Kraniem1×
Luke 23:33… erchala epi ton topon ton kalorōnton Kraniem, ekei staurala auton kai toin kakourgoin, …… came to the place called The Skull, they crucified Him there, along with …