Kōmē κώμη

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Kōmē
κώμη
Transliterationkōmē
Strong's numberG2968
LanguageGreek
Part of speechfeminine noun
Glossvillage
Occurrences28 in 27 verses
Most frequent inLuke (12)

Kōmē (Greek κώμη, Strong's G2968) is a Greek feminine noun meaning “village”. It occurs 28 times in 27 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

κώμη, -ης, ἡ
[in LXX for בַּת, חָצֵר, עִיר, etc. ;]
a village or country town, prop, as opposite to a walled city: Mat.14:15, Mrk.6:6, al.; πόλεις καὶ κ., Mat.9:35, al.; with the name added, Βηθλεέμ, Jhn.7:42; Βηθανΐα, Jhn.11:1; with the name of the district, τὰς κ. Καισαρίας, Mrk.8:27; Σαμαρειτῶν, Luk.9:52, Act.8:25
(AS)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVvillage (10), town (8), villages (7), towns (3)
BSBvillage (16), villages (9), village to village (2)

Verses

Every verse with Kōmē, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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