noun · feminine
orguias
Strong’sG3712
a fathom, about five or six feet
stem orgui-2 times 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.
* ὀργυιά, -ᾶς, ἡ
(< ὀρέγω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3712 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidorg-wee-ah'
a stretch of the arms, i.e. a fathom
Fromfrom G3713;
King Jamesfathom.
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
Attic dialect ὄργυᾰ, ᾶς, Refs; Ionic dialect ὄργυιᾰ, ῆς, ἡ (see. below): (ὀρέγω):— the length of the outstretched arms, about 6 feet or I fathom, ἕστηκε ξύλον.. ὅσον τ᾽ ὄργυι᾽ ὑπὲρ αἴης Refs 8th c.BC+
2 more precisely, αἱ ἑκατὸν ὀργυιαὶ δίκαιαί εἰσι στάδιον ἑξάπλεθρον, ἑξαπέδου τῆς ὀργυιῆς μετρεομένης καὶ τετραπήχεος Refs 5th c.BC+
3 rod for measuring land, = Refs 2nd c.BC+ “*Geometry texts” 4.11:—poetry also ὀρόγυια (which see): in compounds -ωρυγ-, see at {δεκ-ώρυγος}. (Proparox. in nominative and accusative singular, Refs 8th c.BC+; in Ionic dialect the nominative and accusative singular end in -ᾰ, -ᾰν, as in Attic dialect, Refs 8th c.BC+ before consonant in Refs 4th c.BC+; ὀργυιά, -άν in late Gr., Refs 2nd 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 | orguias | orguiais |
| object accusative | orguian | orguiain2×ὀργυιὰς |
| direct address vocative | orguiar | orguiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | orguiau | orguiaiu |
| to, for dative | orguia | orguiai |
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
orguia 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
orguiain“fathoms”objectaccusative plural2×
Acts 27:28kai bolizarantois heuriskala orguiain eikosi, brachuem de diastēarantois kai palin …… found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they …
Acts 27:28… de diastēarantois kai palin bolizarantois heuriskala orguiain dekapente;… set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.