noun · feminine
ouras
Strong’sG3769
a tail
stem our-5 times in the New Testament4 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.
οὐρά, -ᾶς, ἡ,
[in LXX for זָנָב;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3769 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidoo-rah'
a tail
Fromapparently a primary word;
King Jamestail.
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
Ionic dialect οὐρή, ἡ, (akin to ὄρρος) tail, of a lion, οὐρῇ δὲ πλευράς τε καὶ ἰσχία.. μαστίεται Refs 8th c.BC+; of a dog, οὐρῇ μέν ῥ᾽ ὅ γ᾽ ἔσηνε Refs 8th c.BC+; of the wolves and lions round the house of Circe, οὐρῇσιν μακρῇσι περισσαίνοντες Refs; of other animals, Refs 8th c.BC+; not used of birds (compare ὀρροπύγιον), Refs
2 ={αἰδοῖον}, Refs 8th c.BC+
II of an army marching, rearguard, rear, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ οὐ. τοῦ κέρατος rear-rank, Refs; κατ᾽ οὐράν τινος ἕπεσθαι to follow in his rear, Refs; ὁ κατ᾽ οὐ. the rear-rank man, Refs; ἐπ᾽ οὐράν to the rear, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ἐπ᾽ οὐρᾷ τῶν ἱππέων in rear, Refs 5th c.BC+; κατ᾽ οὐρὰν προσπίπτειν to attack in rear, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.b left wing of a phalanx (opposed to κεφαλή), Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 ῥήματος οὐρή, i.e. its echo, Refs
II.3 ἑπτὰ κλῶνας ἐλαίας ἄρας, τὰς μὲν ἓξ δῆσον οὐρὰν καὶ κεφαλὴν ἓν καθ᾽ ἕν, i.e. tie together the two ends of each twig separately, Refs
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 | ouras1×οὐρὰ | ourais1×οὐραὶ |
| object accusative | ouran | ourain1×οὐρὰς |
| direct address vocative | ourar | ourair |
| of, belonging to genitive | ourau | ouraiu |
| to, for dative | oura | ourai2×οὐραῖς |
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
oura 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
ouras“tail”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 12:4kai tas ouras autou suratō tem tritem toiu asteroiu …His tail swept a third of the stars …
ourais“tails”subjectnominative plural1×
Revelation 9:19… en tai ourai autoiu; tais gar ourais autoiu homoiais ofioi, echarōntais kefalain, kai …… and in their tails; indeed, their tails were like snakes, having heads with …
ourain“tails”objectaccusative plural1×
Revelation 9:10kai echalō ourain homoiain skorpioi kai kentreim, kai en …They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had …
ourai“tails”to, fordative plural2×
Revelation 9:10“tails”… skorpioi kai kentreim, kai en tai ourai autaiu tas exousias autaiu adikara toin …… stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure …
Revelation 9:19… stome autoiu atō kai en tai ourai autoiu; tais gar ourais autoiu homoiais …… in their mouths and in their tails; indeed, their tails were like snakes …