noun · masculine
kubernētos
Strong’sG2942
a steersman, pilot
stem kubernēt-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
κυβερνήτης, -ου, ὁ
(v.s. κυβέρνησις), [in LXX for חֹבֵל, Ez 27:8, 27, 28, Pr 23:24, IV Mac 7:1*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2942 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkoo-ber-nay'-tace
helmsman, i.e. (by implication) captain
Fromfrom the same as G2941;
King James(ship) master.
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
(Aeolic dialect κυμερνήτης, which see), ου, ὁ, steersman, pilot, Refs 8th c.BC+; skipper of Nileboat, ναύκληρος καὶ κ. Refs 3rd c.BC+
2 metaphorically, guide, governor, Refs 5th c.BC+; as an official title, Refs 6th 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 | kubernētos1×κυβερνήτης | kubernētois |
| object accusative | kubernēton | kubernētoin |
| direct address vocative | kubernētor | kubernētoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kubernētou | kubernētoiu |
| to, for dative | kubernēto1×κυβερνήτῃ | kubernētoi |
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
kubernēto 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
kubernētos“shipmaster”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 18:17… erēmita tos tosoutos ploutos. Kai pantos kubernētos kai pantos tos epi topon plarōntos, …… fabulous wealth has been destroyed!” Every shipmaster, passenger, and sailor, and all who …
kubernēto“pilot”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 27:11tos de hekatontarchēos to kubernēto kai to nauklēro mallon peithote ē …… the centurion was persuaded by the pilot and by the owner of the …