κώμη
village
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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.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
4 distinct verses where G2968 appears in the Genitive case, across 3 books. 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.
Mark 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
John 2 verses
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.
“village” is the headline sense of the Greek noun κωμη (kṓmē). First canonically at Matthew 9:35, it enters the text early. With 26 verses in 5 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Luke, which alone accounts for 42% of its uses. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2968 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 →
- 26
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 26 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #513
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 513 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 26 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 26 distinct verses.
- Gospels 25 verses · 96%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 12 verses · 46%
- Johannine 3 verses · 12%
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: Village 10×, Town 8×, Villages 7×
- American Standard Version: Village 16×, Villages 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Village 15×, Villages 9×, Village to village 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Village 16×, Villages 10×, A 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2968 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2968 across 28 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2968 across 27 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 G2968 across 31 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 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 common sleeping place to which labourers in the field return, a village
- the name of the city near which the villages lie and to whose municipality they belong
- the inhabitants of villages
Word origin
Derived from κειμαι (keîmai) (G2749) — to lie.
From G2749 ; a hamlet (as if laid down): - town village.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G2968 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κώμην kṓmēn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 10:11 | 12 |
| κώμας kṓmas | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Matthew 9:35 | 10 |
| κώμης kṓmēs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Mark 8:23 | 4 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2968, 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
Derived from this word
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 κωμη appears 68 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 51 verses in 10 books.
- 68
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 51
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Numbers 21:32 κώμη
- Joshua 10:39 κώμη
- 1 Samuel 6:18 κώμη
- 1 Chronicles 2:23 κώμη
- 2 Chronicles 13:19 κώμη
- Ezra 16:2 κώμη
- Song of Solomon 7:12 κώμη
- Isaiah 32:14 κώμη
- Jeremiah 19:15 κώμη
- Ezekiel 38:13 κώμη
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2968) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 51. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Numbers 21:32 κώμη Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns of it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
- Numbers 32:42 κώμη Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages of it, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
- Joshua 10:39 κώμη and he took it, and the king of it, and all the cities of it; and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king of it; as he had done also to Libnah, and to the king of it.
- Joshua 13:30 κώμη Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities:
- Joshua 15:24 κώμη Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
- Joshua 15:28 κώμη and Hazar Shual, and Beersheba, and Biziothiah,
- Joshua 15:32 κώμη and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages.
- Joshua 15:36 κώμη and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.
- Joshua 15:41 κώμη and Gederoth, Beth Dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
- Joshua 15:44 κώμη and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
- Joshua 15:45 κώμη Ekron, with its towns and its villages;
- Joshua 15:46 κώμη from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
- Joshua 15:47 κώμη Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border [of it].
- Joshua 15:51 κώμη and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
- Joshua 15:57 κώμη Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
- Joshua 15:59 κώμη and Maarath, and Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.
- Joshua 15:62 κώμη and Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities with their villages.
- Joshua 16:7 κώμη and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.
- Joshua 16:9 κώμη together with the cities which were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
- Joshua 17:11 κώμη Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, even the three heights.
- Joshua 17:16 κώμη The children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are in Beth-shean and its towns, and they who are in the valley of Jezreel.
- Joshua 18:24 κώμη and Chephar Ammoni, and Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages:
- Joshua 18:28 κώμη and Zelah, Eleph, and the Jebusite (the same is Jerusalem), Gibeath, [and] Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
- Joshua 19:6 κώμη and Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:
- Joshua 19:7 κώμη Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages:
- Joshua 19:16 κώμη This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.
- Joshua 19:23 κώμη This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.
- Joshua 19:31 κώμη This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
- Joshua 19:47 κώμη The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
- Joshua 21:12 κώμη But the fields of the city, and the villages of it, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
- 1 Samuel 6:18 κώμη and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the great stone, whereon they set down the ark of Yahweh, [which stone remains] to this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite.
- 1 Chronicles 2:23 κώμη Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages of it, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 5:16 κώμη They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders.
- 1 Chronicles 6:39 κώμη His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
- 1 Chronicles 6:41 κώμη the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
- 1 Chronicles 7:28 κώμη Their possessions and habitations were Bethel and the towns of it, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns of it; Shechem also and the towns of it, to Azzah and the towns of it;
- 1 Chronicles 7:29 κώμη and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the children of Joseph the son of Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 8:12 κώμη The sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with the towns of it;
- 1 Chronicles 9:16 κώμη and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
- 1 Chronicles 18:1 κώμη After this it happened, that David struck the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.
- 1 Chronicles 27:25 κώμη Over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah:
- 2 Chronicles 13:19 κώμη Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns of it, and Jeshanah with the towns of it, and Ephron with the towns of it.
- 2 Chronicles 14:13 κώμη Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh, and before his host; and they carried away very much booty.
- 2 Chronicles 28:18 κώμη The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland, and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Soco with the towns of it, and Timnah with the towns of it, Gimzo also and the towns of it: and they lived there.
- Ezra 16:2 κώμη
- Song of Solomon 7:12 κώμη Let's go early up to the vineyards. Let's see whether the vine has budded, Its blossom is open, And the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
- Isaiah 32:14 κώμη For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
- Isaiah 42:11 κώμη Let the wilderness and the cities of it lift up [their voice], the villages that Kedar does inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
- Jeremiah 19:15 κώμη Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.
- Jeremiah 30:31 κώμη
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2968) 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.
