pelagem

Strong’sG3989

the sea, the deep

stem pelag-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 6 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.

** πέλαγος, -ους, τό,

[in LXX: II Mac 5:21, IV Mac 7:1*;]

the deep sea, the deep, the sea: Ac 27:5; τὸ π. τῆς θαλάσσης, Mt 18:6.

SYN.: θαλάσσα (q.v.); and cf. ἄβυσσος.

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3989 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpel'-ag-os

deep or open sea, i.e. the main

Fromof uncertain affinity;

King Jamesdepth, sea.

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

πέλᾰγ-ος, εος, τό,
genitive plural πελαγέων Refs 5th c.BC+; Epic dialect dative πελάγεσσι (see. below):—the sea, especially high sea, open sea, π. μέγα Refs 8th c.BC+.; διὰ πελάγους out at sea, opposed to παρὰ γῆν, Refs 5th c.BC+: frequently coupled with other words denoting sea, ἁλὸς ἐν πελάγεσσιν Refs 8th c.BC+; π. πόντιον, πόντου π., Refs 5th c.BC+; ἅλιον π. Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of parts of the sea (θάλασσα), frequently with geographical epithet, Αἰγαῖον π. Refs 5th c.BC+
3 flooded plain, γίνεται π. Refs 5th c.BC+
II metaphorically, of any vast quantity, πλούτου π. Refs 5th c.BC+; κακῶν π. a 'sea of troubles', Refs 4th c.BC+; ἄτης ἄβυσσον π. Refs 5th c.BC+; of great difficulties, μέγ᾽ ἄρα π. ἐλαχέτην τιRefs

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.

depth1×open sea1×

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 or object direct	pelagem	pelageim
of, belonging to genitive	pelageu	pelageiu
to, for dative	pelage1×πελάγει	pelagei

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

pelagstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

pelage 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

pelage“depth”to, fordative singular1×

Matthew 18:6“depth”… trachēlon autou kai katapontiziteia en te pelage tau thalassau.… hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

pelagem1×

Acts 27:5tem tē pelagem tem kata tan Kilikian kai Pamfulian …… when we had sailed across the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and …