noun · masculine
libos
Strong’sG3047
the south-west wind
stem lib-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.
λίψ, λιβός, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for נֶגֶב, also for תֵּימָן, מַעֲרָבָה, etc., Ge 13:14, Nu 2:10, II Ch 32:30, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3047 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidleeps
the south(- west) wind (as bringing rain, i.e. (by extension) the south quarter)
Fromprobably from λείβω (to pour a "libation");
King Jamessouthwest.
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
Agenitive λιβός, the SW. wind, Refs 5th c.BC+
A.2 the South, frequently in LXX
A.3 the West, opposed to ἀπηλιώτης, LXX+2nd c.BC+; λιβός or λίβα εἰς ἀπηλιώτην from Refs 1st c.AD+
A.4 Astron., πρωινὸς λ., μεσημβρινὸς λ., ὀψινὸς λ., position of a star on the W. horizon at sunrise, midday, or sunset, Refs 1st 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 | libos | libois |
| object accusative | libon1×λίβα | liboin |
| direct address vocative | libor | liboir |
| of, belonging to genitive | libou | liboiu |
| to, for dative | libo | liboi |
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
libo 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
libon“southwest”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 27:12… paracheimazara, limenon tau Krētau bleparōnton kata libon kai kata chōron.… a harbor in Crete facing both southwest and northwest.