noun · feminine
rumas
Strong’sG4505
a street, lane
stem rum-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 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.
ῥύμη, -ης, ἡ
[in LXX: Is 15:3 (רְחֹב), Pr 31:23א, To 13:18, Si 9:7 א1*;]
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
force, swing, rush of a body in motion, ῥύμῃ ἐμπίπτειν with a swing, Refs 5th c.BC+; πτερύγων ῥύμη rush of wings, Refs 5th c.BC+; τροχοῦ ῥύμαισι τευκτὸν.. κύτος formed by the whirl of the potter's wheel, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ῥ. τοῦ αἵματος the flow of blood in the veins, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ῥ. τῆς ἐκκρούσεως Refs 5th c.BC+; τῆς ῥ. τῆς ἁλιάδος ὁ ψόφος, of the noise made by a boat in motion, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ῥ. τῆς ὀργῆς κτλ. the vehemence of passion, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 absolutely, rush, charge, of soldiers, Refs 5th c.BC+; of ships, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὑπὸ τοῦ ῥοίβδου καὶ τῆς ῥ. Refs 5th c.BC+
3 ={ῥοπή}, Chrysipp. cited in Refs 8th c.BC+
II street, LXX+4th c.BC+; of a Roman camp, Refs 2nd c.BC+; lane, alley, NT+3rd c.BC+; slit, chink, uncertain reading 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 | 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
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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
ruman“street”objectaccusative singular2×
Acts 9:11… pros auton; Anastēarantos poreuisar epi tan ruman tan kalorōntan Euthuan kai zētasar en …… the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from …
Acts 12:10“street”… automatas anoigita autoi, kai exercharantois proerchala ruman henan, kai eutheōs apostēata tos angelos …… city, which opened for them by itself. When they had gone outside and walked the length of one block, the angel suddenly left …
rumain“lanes”objectaccusative plural1×
Luke 14:21“lanes”… Exerchasar tacheōs eis tain plateiain kai rumain tau polau, kai toin ptōchoin kai …… 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… en tai sunagōgai kai en tai rumai, hopōs doxazileia hupo toiu anthrōpoiu; amēn …… in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly …