proskefalaiem

Strong’sG4344

a pillow or cushion

stem proskefalai-once in the New Testament0 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.

προσ-κεφάλαιον, -ου, τό,

[in LXX: Ez 13:18, 20 (כֶּסֶת), I Es 3:8*;]

a pillow, cushion: Mk 4:38.†

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

Strong’s G4344 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpros-kef-al'-ahee-on

something for the head, i.e. a cushion

Fromneuter of a presumed compound of G4314 and G2776;

King Jamespillow.

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

προσκεφᾰλ-αιον, τό,
cushion for the head, pillow, Refs 5th c.BC+: generally, any cushion, NT+5th c.BC+: Doric dialect ποτικεφάλαιον Refs 1st c.BC+; also ποικεφ-, Refs; προσκεφᾰλ-ίς, ίδος, ἡ,, Refs
II name for a treasure-chamber of the Persian kings, Refs 4th 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.

cushion1×

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	proskefalaiem	proskefalaieim
of, belonging to genitive	proskefalaieu	proskefalaieiu
to, for dative	proskefalaie	proskefalaiei

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

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

proskefalaie 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

proskefalaiem1×

Mark 4:38… ate en ta prumna epi tem proskefalaiem katheudarōntos; kai egeralō auton kai legalō …… in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him and said …