noun · masculine
krēmnos
Strong’sG2911
a crag, precipice
stem krēmn-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 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.
κρημνός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< κρεμάννυμι), [in LXX: II Ch 25:12 (סֶלַע)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2911 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkrame-nos'
overhanging, i.e. a precipice
Fromfrom G2910;
King Jamessteep place.
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
irregular
Aplural κρημνά, τά, variant for{κρημνούς} in Refs 4th c.AD+ Mynd.63:—overhanging bank, in Refs 8th c.BC+ of the bank of a river, edge of a trench, Refs 5th c.BC+; later, beetling cliff, crag, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀναθεῖναι ἐπὶ κρημνόν τιν᾽ Refs 5th c.BC+ down from the cliffs of Epipolae, Refs 6th c.BC+; οἱ K., the Refs 5th c.BC+
A.2 in plural, edges of an ulcer, Refs 5th c.BC+
A.3 labia pudendi, Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 nominative | krēmnos | krēmnois |
| object accusative | krēmnon | krēmnoin |
| direct address vocative | krēmnor | krēmnoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | krēmnou3×κρημνοῦ | krēmnoiu |
| to, for dative | krēmno | krēmnoi |
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
krēmno 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
krēmnou“steep bank”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Matthew 8:32… hormata pantas tas agelas kata tou krēmnou eis tan thalassan, kai apothnēskala en …… the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and died in …
Mark 5:13… kai hormata tas agelas kata tou krēmnou eis tan thalassan, hōs dischilioi, kai …… about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in …
Luke 8:33… kai hormata tas agelas kata tou krēmnou eis tan limnan kai apopnigita.… and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.