noun · feminine
sagēnas
Strong’sG4522
a fishing-net
stem sagēn-once in the New Testament1 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.
σαγήνη, -ης, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for חֶרֶם;]
SYN.: ἀμφίβληστρον (q.v.), δίκτυον
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4522 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsag-ay'-nay
a "seine" for fishing
Fromfrom a derivative of σάττω (to equip) meaning furniture, especially a pack-saddle (which in the East is merely a bag of netted rope);
King Jamesnet.
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
Refs 5th c.AD+ἁγάνα (see. ἄγανα and compare σάγανα), ἡ, large drag-net for taking fish, seine, Ital. sagena, LXX+NT+1st c.AD+; hunting-net, Refs
2 ={ἐπίπλοος} (c), Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | sagēnas | sagēnais |
| object accusative | sagēnan | sagēnain |
| direct address vocative | sagēnar | sagēnair |
| of, belonging to genitive | sagēnau | sagēnaiu |
| to, for dative | sagēna1×σαγήνῃ | sagēnai |
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
sagēna 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
sagēna“net”to, fordative singular1×
Matthew 13:47… homoias atō tas basileias toiu ouranoiu sagēna baliranta eis tan thalassan kai ek …… kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea …