noun · masculine
silōam
Strong’sG4611
Siloam
stem silōam-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.
Σιλωάμ (indecl., but in FlJ, gen., ᾶ, B.J., ii, 16, 2), ὁ (Heb. שִׁלֹחַ),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4611 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsil-o-am'
Siloam (i.e. Shiloach), a pool of Jerusalem
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesSiloam.
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
Siloam (see DB, iii, 515 f.):
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
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 | silōam | silōam |
| object accusative | silōam1×Σιλωὰμ | silōam |
| direct address vocative | silōam | silōam |
| of, belonging to genitive | silōam1×Σιλωάμ | silōam |
| to, for dative | silōam1×Σιλωὰμ | silōam |
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
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
silōam“Siloam”objectaccusative singular1×
John 9:11… legata mi hoti Hupagasōr eis ton Silōam kai niptesar; apercharantos oun kai nipterantos …… He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and …
silōam“Siloam”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
John 9:7… Hupagasōr niptesar eis tan kolumbēthran tou Silōam hem hermēneuotō Apostelorēntos. aperchata oun kai …… Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man …
silōam“Siloam”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 13:4… hoin piptata tos purgos en to Silōam kai apoktenata autoin, dokavō hoti autois …… were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think …