noun · feminine
prumnas
Strong’sG4403
the stern of a ship
stem prumn-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 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.
* πρύμνα, -ης, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4403 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidproom'-nah
the stern of a ship
Fromfeminine of πρυμνύς (hindmost);
King Jameshinder part, stern.
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
accusative -ᾰνRefs 5th c.BC+; Ionic dialect and Epic dialect πρύμνη (also in Refs 5th c.BC+; both forms in Refs 5th c.BC+ —properly _feminine_ of πρυμνός (i.e. ναῦς), stern, poop, in Refs 8th c.BC+; νηῒ ἐνὶ π. Refs 8th c.BC+; but also τῆς (i.e. νηός) πρύμνη Refs 8th c.BC+; π. alone, Refs 8th c.BC+; also metaphorically of a man, Ar.[same place]; χωρεῖν πρύμναν retire, draw back, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπείγει κατὰ πρύμναν, of a fair wind, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄγειν ἑαυτὴν ἐκ πρύμνης, metaphorically of the soul, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, π. πόλεος the Acropolis, Refs 4th c.BC+; also of the vessel of the State, Refs; so ἐκ πρύμνης φρενός, probably in Refs
II bottom, foot, π. Ὄσσας uncertain in Refs 5th 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 | prumnas1×πρύμνα | prumnais |
| object accusative | prumnan | prumnain |
| direct address vocative | prumnar | prumnair |
| of, belonging to genitive | prumnau1×πρύμνης | prumnaiu |
| to, for dative | prumna1×πρύμνῃ | prumnai |
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
prumna 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
prumnas“stern”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 27:41… prōras ereidarantas menata asaleutas, tas de prumnas luote hupo tau biau.… and would not move, and the stern was being broken up by the …
prumnau“stern”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 27:29… pou kata trachuoin topoin ekpiptaneia ek prumnau riptarantois ankurain tessares euchole hēmeran genera.… they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.
prumna“stern”to, fordative singular1×
Mark 4:38kai autos ate en ta prumna epi tem proskefalaiem katheudarōntos; kai egeralō …But Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they …