noun · feminine
lailapas
Strong’sG2978
a sudden storm, squall
stem lailap-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 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.
λαῖλαψ, -απος, ἡ,
[in LXX: Jb 21:18 27:20 א (סוּפָה) 38:1, Je 32 (25):32 (סְעָרָה, סַעַר), Wi 5:14, 23, Si 48:9, 12*;]
SYN.: θύελλα, q.v., and cf. ἄνεμος.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2978 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlah'-ee-laps
a whirlwind (squall)
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesstorm, tempest.
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
furious storm, hurricane, βαῖνον ἐρεμνῇ λαίλαπι ἶσοι LXX+8th c.BC+, a whirlwind sweeping upwards: metaphorically, ἔτλης λαίλαπα δυσμενέων Refs 1st c.BC+—Not found in early Prose, but common later,NT+1st c.AD+:—a form λαιλαπετός, ὁ, occurs in Refs 8th 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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | lailapas2×λαῖλαψ | lailapais |
| object accusative | lailapan | lailapain |
| direct address vocative | lailapar | lailapair |
| of, belonging to genitive | lailapau1×λαίλαπος | lailapaiu |
| to, for dative | lailapa | lailapai |
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
lailapa 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
lailapas“storm”subjectnominative singular2×
Mark 4:37“storm”kai genotō lailapas megas anemou, kai teim kumeim epibalate …… came up, and the waves were breaking over the …
Luke 8:23“storm”plarōntoiu de autoiu afupnata. kai katabainata lailapas anemou eis tan limnan, kai sumplērole …As they sailed, He fell asleep, and a windstorm came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were …
lailapau“storm”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
2 Peter 2:17… alō pēgais anudrais kai homichlais hupo lailapau elaunorōntais, hoi tos zofos teu skoteu …… water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.