noun · feminine

rumas

Greekῥύμη (rumē)

Strong’sG4505

a street, lane

stem rum-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

street2×lanes1×streets1×

What it means

ῥύμη, -ης, ἡ

[in LXX: Is 15:3 (רְחֹב), Pr 31:23א, To 13:18, Si 9:7 א1*;]

1. in cl., the force, rush, swing, of a moving body; esp. of a charge of soldiers.

2. In late Greek (as in Macedonian, v. Kennedy, Sources, 15), a narrow road, lane, street: in Polyb., of a road in camp; in LXX and NT (π. also) of streets in a town, Mt 6:2, Lk 14:21, Ac 9:11 12:10 (cf. Rutherford, NPhr., 488).†

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

Strong’s G4505 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhroo'-may

an alley or avenue (as crowded)

Fromprolongation from G4506 in its original sense;

King Jameslane, street.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	rumas	rumais
object accusative	ruman2×ῥύμην	rumain1×ῥύμας
direct address vocative	rumar	rumair
of, belonging to genitive	rumau	rumaiu
to, for dative	ruma	rumai1×ῥύμαις

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

rumstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

ruma 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

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

ruman“street”objectaccusative singular2×

Acts 9:11“street”tos de kurios pros auton; Anistanaratos poreuisar epi tan ruman tan kalirōtan Euthuan kai zētasar en oikia Ioudaou Saulon onome Tarsevon, idou gar proseuchetō,“Get up!” the Lord told him. “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.

Acts 12:10“street”diercharatois de prōtan fulakan kai deuteran erchala epi tan pulan tan sidērouan tan ferarōtan eis tan politan, hotinas automatas anoigita autoi, kai exercharatois proerchala ruman henan, kai eutheōs afistanata tos angelos apo autou.They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city, which opened for them by itself. When they had gone outside and walked the length of one block, the angel suddenly left him.

rumain“lanes”objectaccusative plural1×

Luke 14:21“lanes”kai paragineratos tos doulos apangellata to kurio autou houteim. tote orgiziratos tos oikodespotos legata to doulo autou; Exerchasar tacheōs eis tain plateiain kai rumain tau politau, kai toin ptōchoin kai anapēroin kai tufloin kai chōloin eisagasar hōde.The servant returned and reported all this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’

rumai“streets”to, fordative plural1×

Matthew 6:2“streets”Hotan oun poiaseiō eleēmosunan, mē salpizaseia emprosthen su, hōsper tois hupokritois poialō en tai sunagōgai kai en tai rumai, hopōs doxazileia hupo toiu anthrōpoiu; amēn legamō vi, apechalō ton misthon autoiu.So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.