noun · masculine
ōmosos
Strong’sG5606
a shoulder
stem ōmos-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
ὦμος, οὐ, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for שְׁכֶם, כָּתֵף;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5606 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saido'-mos
the shoulder (as that on which burdens are borne)
Fromperhaps from the alternate of G5342;
King Jamesshoulder.
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
(see. entry near the end):— the shoulder with the upper arm (ὠλένη being the lower), ξίφεϊ κληῗδα παρ᾽ ὦμον πλῆξ᾽, ἀπὸ δ᾽ αὐχένος ὦμον ἐέργαθεν ἠδ᾽ ἀπὸ νώτου Refs 8th c.BC+; κατ᾽ ὤμου δεῖρον Refs 8th c.BC+; ὤμοις or ἐπ᾽ ὤμοις φέρειν, Refs 8th c.BC+; ὤμοισι τοῖσι ἐμοῖσι 'by the strength of mine arms', Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀποστρέψαι τὸν ὦ. to dislocate it, Refs 5th c.BC+
b the shoulder is sometimes more exactly specified as πρυμνότατος or πρυμνὸς ὦμος, Refs 8th c.BC+; sometimes opposed to χείρ (the arm), χεῖρες ὤμων.. ἐπαΐσσονται Refs 8th c.BC+; τοὺς ὤμους ἀποταμόντες σὺν τῇσι χερσί (arms) Refs 5th c.BC+
2 also of animals. as of a horse, Refs 8th c.BC+; of a lion, Refs 8th c.BC+; of a dog, Refs 5th c.BC+; of crabs, Refs; of birds, Refs 1st c.AD+; of ants, Refs
3 the shoulder, in a dress, ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων τῆς ἐπωμίδος LXX+4th c.BC+
II metaphorically of the parts below the top or head of any thing, especially of the fork of a vine (compare ὠμοχάραξ), Refs; of the womb, Heroph. cited in Refs 2nd c.AD+. (Cf. Latin umerus (from *omesos), Gothic ams (stem amsa-), Sanskrit áṃsas, also Aeolic dialect ἐπ-ομμάδιος, and (non-Greek) ἀμέσω Refs 5th c.AD+
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 | ōmosos | ōmosois |
| object accusative | ōmoson | ōmosoin2×ὤμους |
| direct address vocative | ōmosor | ōmosoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | ōmosou | ōmosoiu |
| to, for dative | ōmoso | ōmosoi |
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
ōmoso 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
ōmosoin“shoulders”objectaccusative plural2×
Matthew 23:4… fortieim barueim kai epitithalō epi toin ōmosoin toiu anthrōpoiu, autois de to daktulo …… loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing …
Luke 15:5kai heuriskarantos epitithatō epi toin ōmosoin autou chairarōntos,… he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,