κόλπος
bosom
‘bosom’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G2859 appears in the Dative case in the Book of Luke. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Luke
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.
“bosom” is the headline sense of the Greek noun κολπος (kólpos). It clusters heavily in Luke, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. It turns up in 6 verses across 3 books, an uncommon footprint. First canonically at Luke 6:38, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 3 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 6-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2859 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 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 6 distinct verses.
- Gospels 5 verses · 83%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 67%
- Johannine 2 verses · 33%
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: Bosom 5×
- American Standard Version: Bosom 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Side 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bosom 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2859 across 6 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2859 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G2859 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear 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 G2859 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses 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.
- the front of the body between the arms
- the bosom of a garment…
- a bay of the sea
Word origin
Origin: apparently a primary word
Apparently a primary word; the bosom ; by analogy a bay : - bosom creek.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G2859 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κόλπον kólpon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 6:38 | 4 |
| κόλποις kólpois | Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 16:23 | 1 |
| κόλπῳ kólpō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | John 13:23 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κολπος appears 40 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 34 verses in 15 books.
- 40
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 34
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 16:5 κόλπος
- Exodus 4:6 κόλπος
- Numbers 11:12 κόλπος
- Deuteronomy 13:7 κόλπος
- Ruth 4:16 κόλπος
- 2 Samuel 12:3 κόλπος
- 1 Kings 3:20 κόλπος
- Job 19:27 κόλπος
- Psalms 34:13 κόλπος
- Proverbs 6:27 κόλπος
- Ecclesiastes 7:9 κόλπος
- Isaiah 49:22 κόλπος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2859) 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.
- Genesis 16:5 κόλπος Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."
- Exodus 4:6 κόλπος Yahweh said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside your cloak." He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
- Exodus 4:7 κόλπος He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak again." He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.
- Numbers 11:12 κόλπος Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that you should tell me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, to the land which you swore to their fathers?
- Deuteronomy 13:7 κόλπος of the gods of the peoples who are round about you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;
- Deuteronomy 28:54 κόλπος The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;
- Deuteronomy 28:56 κόλπος The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
- Ruth 4:16 κόλπος Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.
- 2 Samuel 12:3 κόλπος but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him like a daughter.
- 2 Samuel 12:8 κόλπος I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.
- 1 Kings 3:20 κόλπος She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
- 1 Kings 17:19 κόλπος He said to her, Give me your son. He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the chamber, where he abode, and laid him on his own bed.
- 1 Kings 22:35 κόλπος The battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even; and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.
- Job 19:27 κόλπος Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.
- Job 23:12 κόλπος I haven't gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
- Job 31:34 κόλπος Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door--
- Psalms 34:13 κόλπος Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking lies.
- Psalms 73:11 κόλπος They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"
- Psalms 78:12 κόλπος He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
- Psalms 88:51 κόλπος
- Psalms 128:7 κόλπος
- Proverbs 6:27 κόλπος Can a man scoop fire into his lap, And his clothes not be burned?
- Proverbs 16:29 κόλπος A man of violence entices his neighbor, And leads him in a way that is not good.
- Proverbs 17:23 κόλπος A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, To pervert the ways of justice.
- Proverbs 19:24 κόλπος The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; He will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
- Proverbs 26:15 κόλπος The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
- Proverbs 30:4 κόλπος Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?
- Ecclesiastes 7:9 κόλπος Don't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
- Isaiah 49:22 κόλπος Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
- Isaiah 65:6 κόλπος Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom,
- Isaiah 65:7 κόλπος your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says Yahweh, who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.
- Jeremiah 39:18 κόλπος For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall be for a prey to you; because you have put your trust in me, says Yahweh.
- Lamentations 2:12 κόλπος They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.
- Hosea 8:1 κόλπος "Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh's house, Because they have broken my covenant, And rebelled against my law.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2859) 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.
