adjective
kullos
Strong’sG2948
crippled, lame
stem kull-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 26 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.
* κυλλός, -ή, -όν,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2948 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkool-los'
rocking about, i.e. crippled (maimed, in feet or hands)
Fromfrom the same as G2947;
King Jamesmaimed.
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
club-footed and bandy-legged, opposed to βλαισός, Refs 5th c.BC+; κ. πούςRefs 5th c.BC+
2 generally, deformed, contracted, κ. οὖς Refs 5th c.BC+; crippled in the arm, κ. ἠκόντιζεν ἀμείνονα NT+1st c.AD+; ἔμβαλε κυλλῇ (i.e. χειρί) put into a crooked hand, i.e. with the fingers crooked like a beggar's, to catch an alms, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of things, crooked, κ. κυκλάς Refs 6th c.AD+
II κυλλά, τά, choliambi, Refs 3rd c.BC+
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kullos | kullas | kullem | kullois | kullais | kulleim |
| object accusative | kullon2×κυλλὸν | kullan | kulloin2×κυλλούς | kullain | ||
| direct address vocative | kullor | kullar | kulloir | kullair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | kullou | kullau | kulleu | kulloiu | kullaiu | kulleiu |
| to, for dative | kullo | kulla | kulle | kulloi | kullai | kullei |
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
kull 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
kullon“maimed”objectaccusative singular2×
Matthew 18:8“maimed”… si atō eiserchara eis tan zōan kullon ē chōlon, ē duo cheirain ē …… away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands and two …
Mark 9:43“maimed”… su, apokoptasar autan; kalem atō sin kullon eiserchara eis tan zōan ē tain …If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into …
kulloin“crippled”objectaccusative plural2×
Matthew 15:30… echarōntois meta heautoiu kōfoin, tufloin, chōloin, kulloin, kai heteroin polloin, kai riptala autoin …… bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and …
Matthew 15:31… ton ochlon thaumazara bleparōntoin kōfoin lalarōntoin kulloin hugioin kai chōloin peripatarōntoin kai tufloin …… they saw the mute speaking, the crippled restored, the lame walking, and the …