noun · masculine
limēnos
Strong’sG3040
a harbor, port
stem limēn-once in the New Testament1 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.
λιμήν, -ένος, ὁ,
[in LXX: Ps 106 (107):30 (מָחוֹז), Ps 106 (107):35, I Es 5:55, I, II, IV Mac7*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3040 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlee-mane'
a harbor
Fromapparently a primary word;
King Jameshaven.
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
harbour, Refs 8th c.BC+; Κανθάρου λ. a dockyard in the Piraeus, with a pun on κάνθαρος just above, Refs 8th c.BC+ havens of refuge from the sea, Refs 8th c.BC+
II metaphorically, haven, retreat, refuge, Refs 6th c.BC+; ἑταιρείας λ. a haven of friendship, Refs 5th c.BC+ from ills, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 gathering-place, receptacle, πλούτου λ. Refs 5th c.BC+; Ἅιδου λ. harbour of death, Refs; ξείνων αἰδοῖοι λιμένες Refs 5th c.BC+; βοῆς τῆς σῆς ποῖος οὐκ ἔσται λ.; what place shall not harbour (i.e. receive) thy cry? Refs 5th c.BC+
III ={ἀγορά} in Thessaly and Paphos, Refs 1st c.AD+
IV the source of birth, womb, Refs 5th 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 | limēnos | limēnois |
| object accusative | limēnon | limēnoin1×Λιμένας |
| direct address vocative | limēnor | limēnoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | limēnou | limēnoiu |
| to, for dative | limēno | limēnoi |
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
limēno 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
limēnoin“havens”objectaccusative plural1×
Acts 27:8… erchana eis topon tinon kalorōnton Kaloin Limēnoin ho engus ate polas Lasaias.… came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.