noun · neuter
kumem
Strong’sG2949
a wave
stem kum-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
κῦμα, -τος, τό
(< κύω, to be pregnant, to swell), [in LXX chiefly for גַּל;]
SYN.: κλύδων, q.v.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2949 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkoo'-mah
a billow (as bursting or toppling)
Fromfrom κύω (to swell (with young), i.e. bend, curve);
King Jameswave.
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
(κύω) anything swollen (as if pregnant): hence,
I wave, billow, of rivers as well as the sea, in singular and plural; κ. θαλάσσης Refs 8th c.BC+; κύματ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἠϊόνος κλύζεσκον Refs 5th c.BC+ when the swell abated, Refs 5th c.BC+
I.2 metaphorically, flood of men, κ. χερσαῖον στρατοῦ Refs 4th c.BC+
I.2.b of the waves of adversity, etc., κ. ἄτης, κακῶν, Refs 5th c.BC+; κελαινοῦ κ. μένος, of passion, Refs 5th c.BC+
I.2.c phrases: μάτην με κῦμ᾽ ὅπως παρηγορῶν Refs 5th c.BC+
I.3 Architecture texts, waved moulding, cyma, Λέσβιον κ. Refs 4th c.BC+
II from κύω (as κύημα from κυέω), foetus, embryo, νεόσπορον Refs 5th c.BC+; of the earth, κ. λαμβάνειν Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 young sprout of plants, Refs 4th c.BC+; especially of a cabbage, 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 or object direct | kumem | kumeim2×κύματα |
| of, belonging to genitive | kumeu | kumeiu2×κυμάτων |
| to, for dative | kume | kumei |
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
kume 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
kumeim“waves”subject or objectdirect plural2×
Mark 4:37… genotō lailapas megas anemou, kai teim kumeim epibalate eis tem ploiem, hōste ēdē …… violent windstorm came up, and the waves were breaking over the boat, so …
Jude 1:13kumeim agrieim thalassau epafrizarōnteim tain heauteiu aischunain, …They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their …
kumeiu“waves”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Matthew 8:24… hōste tem ploiem kaluptorō hupo teiu kumeiu, autos de katheudate.… the boat was engulfed by the waves. But Jesus was sleeping.
Matthew 14:24… tau gēau apechate, basanizorōntem hupo teiu kumeiu, ate gar enantios tos anemos.… far from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.