noun · feminine
limnas
Strong’sG3041
a lake
stem limn-11 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books4 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.
λίμνη, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX: Ps 106 (107):35 113 (114):8 (אֲגַם), Ca 7:4 (5) (בְּרֵכָה) I Mac 11:35, II Mac 12:16*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3041 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlim'-nay
a pond (large or small)
Fromprobably from G3040 (through the idea of nearness of shore);
King Jameslake.
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
pool of standing water left by the sea or a river, Refs 8th c.BC+: hence, marshy lake, mere, distinguished from ἕλος, Refs 8th c.BC+; ΓυγαίηRefs 5th c.BC+; λ. τροχοειδής, at Delos, Refs 5th c.BC+
b also, artificial pool or basin, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 in Refs 8th c.BC+ and other Poets, the sea, Refs 8th c.BC+: so in Trag. in Lyric poetry, λίμνᾳ πορφυροειδεῖ Refs 5th c.BC+; Μηλίδα πὰρ λ. by the Malian bay, Refs
II Λίμναι, αἱ, (used without the article), a quarter of Athens (once probably marshy), near the Acropolis, in which stood the Lenaeum, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 a quarter or suburb of Sparta, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.3 a place in Messenia, Refs
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 | limnas1×λίμνη | limnais |
| object accusative | limnan8×λίμνην | limnain |
| direct address vocative | limnar | limnair |
| of, belonging to genitive | limnau1×λίμνης | limnaiu |
| to, for dative | limna1×λίμνῃ | limnai |
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
limna 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.
11 occurrences, every one of them listed
limnas“lake”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 20:14… tos thanatos tos deuteros atō, tas limnas teu pureu.… This is the second death — the lake of fire.
limnan“lake”objectaccusative singular8×
Luke 5:1… kai autos ate stēarēntos para tan limnan Gennēsaret,… while Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret with the crowd pressing …
Luke 5:2… horata duo ploieim stēarēnteim para tan limnan, tois de halievois apo auteiu apobainarantois …… boats at the edge of the lake. The fishermen had left them and …
Luke 8:23… kai katabainata lailapas anemou eis tan limnan, kai sumplērole kai kinduneuale.… a windstorm came down on the lake, so that the boat was being …
Luke 8:33… agelas kata tou krēmnou eis tan limnan kai apopnigita.… down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.
Revelation 19:20… zōarōntois balila tois duo eis tan limnan teu pureu tau kaiorōntau en theie.… were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
Revelation 20:10… tos planarōntos autoin balita eis tan limnan teu pureu kai theieu, hopou kai …… deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which …
Revelation 20:14… kai tos hados balila eis tan limnan teu pureu. houtos tos thanatos tos …… and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second …
Revelation 20:15… tau zōau graforēntos, balita eis tan limnan teu pureu.… Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
limnau“lake”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 8:22… autoin; Dierchaneia eis tem peran tau limnau, kai anagila.… to the other side of the lake.” So He got into a boat …
limna“lake”to, fordative singular1×
Revelation 21:8… pseudēsoi tem merem autoiu en ta limna ta kaiorōnta pure kai theie, hem …… their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur …