noun · feminine
lonchas
Strong’sG3057
a lance, spear
stem lonch-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.
λόγχη, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX for רֹמַח, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3057 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlong'-khay
a "lance"
Fromperhaps a primary word;
King Jamesspear.
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
A spear-head, Refs 5th c.BC+: also in plural of a single spear, the point with its barbs, τὸ ξυστὸν τῇσι λόγχῃσι ἐὸν ὁμοίως χρύσεον the shaft alike with the spear-head, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ κνώδοντες τῆς λόγχης the barbs of the spear-head, Refs
A.2 lance-shaped birth-mark, Refs
A.II lance, spear, javelin, Refs 5th c.BC+; λόγχας ἐσθίων, proverbial of a bragging coward, a 'fire-eater', Refs 4th c.BC+
A.III troop of spearmen, ξὺν ἑπτὰ λόγχαις 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 | lonchas | lonchais |
| object accusative | lonchan | lonchain |
| direct address vocative | lonchar | lonchair |
| of, belonging to genitive | lonchau | lonchaiu |
| to, for dative | loncha1×λόγχῃ | lonchai |
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
loncha 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
loncha“spear”to, fordative singular1×
John 19:34alla henos toiu stratiōtoiu loncha autou tan pleuran nussata, kai exerchata …… soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed …