λίμνη
lake
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
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.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
8 distinct verses where G3041 appears in the Accusative case, across 2 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.
Luke 4 verses
- Luke 5:1 λίμνην n acc sg fem Now it happened, while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.
- Luke 5:2 λίμνην n acc sg fem He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
- Luke 8:23 λίμνην n acc sg fem But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.
- Luke 8:33 λίμνην n acc sg fem The demons came out from the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.
Revelation 4 verses
- Revelation 19:20 λίμνην n acc sg fem The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
- Revelation 20:10 λίμνην n acc sg fem The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
- Revelation 20:14 λίμνην λίμνη n acc sg fem n nom sg fem Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
- Revelation 20:15 λίμνην n acc sg fem If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
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.
At its core, λιμνη (límnē) means “lake.” Its uses cluster heavily in Luke (50% of all occurrences). With 10 verses in 2 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Scripture first uses it in Luke 5:1. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3041 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 →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #978
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 978 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 5 verses 50%
- Revelation 5 verses 50%
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 10 distinct verses.
- Gospels 5 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 50%
- Johannine 5 verses · 50%
- Revelation 5 verses · 50%
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: Lake 10×
- American Standard Version: Lake 10×
- Berean Standard Bible: Lake 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lake 11×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3041 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3041 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3041 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3041 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- a lake
Word origin
Derived from λιμην (limḗn) (G3040) — harbor.
Probably from G3040 (through the idea of the nearness of shore); a pond (large or small): - lake.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G3041 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| λίμνην límnēn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 5:1 | 8 |
| λίμνη límnē | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 20:14 | 1 |
| λίμνης límnēs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Luke 8:22 | 1 |
| λίμνῃ límnē | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 21:8 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word λιμνη appears 3 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 3 verses in 2 books.
- 3
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 3
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Psalms 106:35 λίμνη
- Song of Solomon 7:5 λίμνη
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3041) 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.
- Psalms 106:35 λίμνη But mixed themselves with the nations, And learned their works.
- Psalms 113:8 λίμνη That he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people.
- Song of Solomon 7:5 λίμνη Your head on you is like Carmel, The hair of your head like purple; The king is held captive in its tresses.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3041) 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.
