noun · feminine
opas
Strong’sG3692
a crevice, cave
stem op-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
ὀπή, -ῆς, ἡ,
[in LXX for חֹר, חָגוּ, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3692 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidop-ay'
a hole (as if for light), i.e. cavern; by analogy, a spring (of water)
Fromprobably from G3700;
King Jamescave, place.
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
opening, hole, ὀπὰς γὰρ εἶχεν οὐκ ὀλίγας [τὸ τριβώνιον] Refs 5th c.BC+; a mouse's hole, Refs 5th c.BC+; of holes in the earth, Refs 4th c.BC+; in a door, Refs 2nd c.AD+; in a rock, LXX; of an orifice in the body, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 hole in the roof, serving as a chimney, ={κάπνη},{καπνοδόκη}, Refs 5th c.BC+
II plural, in Architecture texts, holes in the frieze left to receive the beam-ends, Refs 1st c.BC+; later, of windows, lights in doors, αἱ ὀ. τῶν τοίχων Refs 5th c.BC+
III (ὄψομαι, ὄπωπα) sight, τοὶ μήτ᾽ ἀκουὰν μήτ᾽ ὀπὰν πεπαμένοι Refs 3rd 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 | opas | opais |
| object accusative | opan | opain |
| direct address vocative | opar | opair |
| of, belonging to genitive | opau1×ὀπῆς | opaiu |
| to, for dative | opa | opai1×ὀπαῖς |
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
opa 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
opau“opening”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
James 3:11“opening”mēti tas pēgas ek tau autau opau bruatō tem glukuem kai tem pikrem?Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
opai“holes”to, fordative plural1×
Hebrews 11:38… kai orei kai spēlaiei kai tai opai tau gēau;… mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.