κλάσμα
fragment
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G2801 appears in the Book of John — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
John
- John 6:12 κλάσματα n acc pl neut When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost."
- John 6:13 κλασμάτων n gen pl neut So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“fragment” is the headline sense of the Greek noun κλασμα (klásma). The King James Version usually renders it “fragments,” while modern versions prefer “broken pieces” (Berean Standard Bible) — see the renderings breakdown. With 9 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Mark, which alone accounts for 44% of its uses. Debuting at Matthew 14:20, it then recurs through the corpus. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2801 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Gospels 9 verses · 100%
- Johannine 2 verses · 22%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 11%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Fragments 7×, Broken 2×
- American Standard Version: Broken pieces 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Broken pieces 6×, Pieces 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Broken pieces 9×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2801 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2801 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2801 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2801 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- remnants of food
Word origin
Derived from κλαω (kláō) (G2806) — to break.
From G2806 ; a piece ( bit ): - broken fragment.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G2801 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κλασμάτων klasmátōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 14:20 | 8 |
| κλάσματα klásmata | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | John 6:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2801, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- κλαδος kládos G2798 young shoot
- κλασις klásis G2800 breaking
- κλημα klēma G2814 vine branch
- κληρος klēros G2819 lot
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κλασμα appears 7 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 7 verses in 5 books.
- 7
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 7
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Leviticus 2:6 κλάσμα
- Judges 9:53 κλάσμα
- 1 Samuel 30:12 κλάσμα
- 2 Samuel 11:21 κλάσμα
- Ezekiel 13:19 κλάσμα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2801) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Leviticus 2:6 κλάσμα You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering.
- Leviticus 6:14 κλάσμα "'This is the law of the meal offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before Yahweh, before the altar.
- Judges 9:53 κλάσμα A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech's head, and broke his skull.
- 1 Samuel 30:12 κλάσμα They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
- 2 Samuel 11:21 κλάσμα who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn't a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then shall you say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"
- 2 Samuel 11:22 κλάσμα So the messenger went, and came and shown David all that Joab had sent him for.
- Ezekiel 13:19 κλάσμα You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2801) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
