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Lexicon :: Strong's G2563 - kalamos

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κάλαμος
Transliteration
kalamos (Key)
Pronunciation
kal'-am-os
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Or uncertain affinity
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Strong’s Definitions

κάλαμος kálamos, kal'-am-os; of uncertain affinity; a reed (the plant or its stem, or that of a similar plant); by implication, a pen:—pen, reed.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's G2563 in the following manner: reed (11x), pen (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's G2563 in the following manner: reed (11x), pen (1x).

  1. a reed

  2. a staff made of a reed, a reed staff

  3. a measuring reed or rod

  4. a writer's reed, a pen

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κάλαμος kálamos, kal'-am-os; of uncertain affinity; a reed (the plant or its stem, or that of a similar plant); by implication, a pen:—pen, reed.
STRONGS G2563:
κάλαμος, καλάμου, ὁ, from Pindar down, Latincalamus, i. e.
a. a reed: Matthew 11:7; Matthew 12:20 (from Isaiah 42:3); Luke 7:24.
b. a staff made of a reed, a reed-staff (as in 2 Kings 18:21): Matthew 27:29f, 48; Mark 15:19, 36.
c. a measuring reed or rod: Revelation 11:1; Revelation 21:15f (Ezekiel 40:3-6; Ezekiel 42:16-19).
d. a writer's reed, a pen: 3 John 1:13; (see Gardthausen, Griech. Palaeogr., p. 71f).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Kings
18:21
Isaiah
42:3
Ezekiel
40:3; 40:4; 40:5; 40:6; 42:16; 42:17; 42:18; 42:19
Matthew
11:7; 12:20; 27:29; 27:48
Mark
15:19; 15:36
Luke
7:24
3 John
1:13
Revelation
11:1; 21:15

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2563 matches the Greek κάλαμος (kalamos),
which occurs 26 times in 20 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23 - Do thou also take sweet herbs, the flower of choice myrrh five hundred shekels, and the half of this two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling calamus,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:21 - He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:1 - (LXX 44:1) For the end, for [fn]alternate strains by the sons of Core; for instruction, a Song concerning the beloved. (44:2) My heart [fn]has uttered a good matter: I declare my works to the king: my tongue is the pen of a quick writer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:30 - (LXX 67:31) Rebuke the wild beasts of the reed: let the crowd of bulls with the heifers of the nations be rebuked, so that they who have been proved with silver may not be shut out: scatter thou the nations that wish for wars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:14 - spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all woods of Libanus, myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:6 - And the streams shall fail, and the canals of the river; and every [fn]reservoir of water shall be dried up, in every marsh also of reed and papyrus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:7 - And the dry land shall become pools, and a fountain of water shall be poured into the thirsty land; there shall there be a joy of birds, ready habitations and marshes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:3 - A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench; but he shall bring forth judgment to truth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:3 - And he brought me in thither, and, behold, there was a man, and the appearance of him was as the appearance of shining brass, and in his hand was a builder's line, and a measuring reed; and he stood at the gate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:5 - And behold a wall round about the house without, and in the man's hand a reed, the measure of it was six cubits by the cubit, and a span: and he measured across the front wall; the breadth was equal to the reed, and the length of it equal to the reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:6 - And he entered by seven steps into the gate that looks eastward, and he measured across the porch of the gate equal to the reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:7 - And the chamber was equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed; and the porch between the chambers six cubits; and the second chamber equal in breadth to the reed, and equal in length to the reed, and the porch five cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:8 - And the third chamber equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:8 - And as for the height of the house round about, each space between the sides was equal to a reed of six cubits;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:12 - So were the measures of the chambers toward the south, and according to the doors at the entrance of the walk, as it were the distance of a reed for light, and eastward as one went in by them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:16 - And he stood behind the gate looking eastward, and measured five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:17 - And he turned to the north and measured in front of the north side five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:18 - (LXX 42:19) And he turned to the south, and measured in front of the south side, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:19 - (LXX 42:18) And he turned to the west, and measured in front of the west side, five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:20 - The four sides he measured by the same reed, and he marked out the house and the circumference of the parts round about, a space of five hundred cubits eastward, and a breadth of five hundred cubits, to make a division between the sanctuary and the outer wall, that belonged to the design of the house.
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