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Lexicon :: Strong's G2859 - kolpos

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κόλπος
Transliteration
kolpos (Key)
Pronunciation
kol'-pos
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primary word
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TDNT Reference: 3:824,452

Strong’s Definitions

κόλπος kólpos, kol'-pos; apparently a primary word; the bosom; by analogy, a bay:—bosom, creek.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's G2859 in the following manner: bosom (5x), creek (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's G2859 in the following manner: bosom (5x), creek (1x).

  1. the front of the body between the arms

  2. the bosom of a garment, i.e. the hollow formed by the upper forepart of a rather loose garment bound by a girdle or sash, used for keeping and carrying things (the fold or pocket)

  3. a bay of the sea

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κόλπος kólpos, kol'-pos; apparently a primary word; the bosom; by analogy, a bay:—bosom, creek.
STRONGS G2859:
κόλπος, κόλπου, ὁ (apparently akin to κοῖλος hollow, (yet cf. Vanicek, p. 179; Liddell and Scott, under the word)), Hebrew חֵיק; the bosom (Latinsinus), i. e. as in the Greek writings from Homer down:
1. the front of the body between the arms hence ἀνακεῖσθαι ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ τίνος, of the one who so reclines at table that his head covers the bosom as it were, the chest, of the one next him (cf. B. D. under the word ), John 13:23. Hence the figurative expressions, ἐν τοῖς κόλποις (on the plural, which occurs as early as Homer, Iliad 9, 570, cf. Winers Grammar, § 27, 3; (Buttmann, 24 (21))) τοῦ Ἀβραάμ εἶναι, to obtain the seat next to Abraham, i. e. to be partaker of the same blessedness as Abraham in paradise, Luke 16:23; ἀποφέρεσθαι... εἰς τόν κόλπον Ἀβραάμ, to be borne away to the enjoyment of the same felicity with Abraham, Luke 16:22 (οὕτω γάρ παθόντας — according to another reading θανόντας — Ἀβραάμ καί Ἰσαάκ καί Ἰακώβ ὑποδέξονται εἰς τούς κόλπους αὐτῶν, 4 Macc. 13:16; The words εἰς τοὺς κόλπους αὐτῶν are wanting in good Mss. (see B. D. under the phrase, Abraham's bosom, and) on the rabbinical phrase אברהם שׁל בּחיקו, in Abraham's bosom, to designate bliss in paradise, cf. Lightfoot, Horace, Hebrew et Talmud., p. 851ff); ὁ ὤν εἰς τόν κόλπον τοῦ πατρός, lying (turned) unto the bosom of his father (God), i. e. in the closest and most intimate relation to the Father, John 1:18 (Winers Grammar, 415 (387)); cf. Cicero, ad div. 14,4iste vero sit in sinu semper et complexu meo.
2. the bosom of a garment, i. e. the hollow formed by the upper forepart of a rather loose garment bound by a girdle, used for keeping and carrying things (the fold or pocket; cf. B. D. under the word ) (Exodus 4:6; Proverbs 6:27); so, figuratively, μέτρον καλόν διδόναι εἰς τόν κόλπον τίνος, to repay one liberally, Luke 6:38 (ἀποδιδόναι εἰς τόν κόλπον, Isaiah 65:6; Jeremiah 39:18 (Jer. 32:18)).
3. a bay of the sea (cf. Italiangolfo (English gulf — which may be only the modern representatives of the Greek word)): Acts 27:39.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
4:6
Proverbs
6:27
Isaiah
65:6
Jeremiah
32:18; 39:18
Luke
6:38; 16:22; 16:23
John
1:18; 13:23
Acts
27:39

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2859 matches the Greek κόλπος (kolpos),
which occurs 40 times in 34 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - And Sara said to Abram, I am injured by thee; I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and when I saw that she was with child, I was dishonoured before her. The Lord judge between me and thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:6 - And the Lord said again to him, Put thine hand into thy bosom; and he put his hand into his bosom, and brought his hand out of his bosom, and his hand became as snow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:7 - And he said again, Put thy hand into thy bosom; and he put his hand into his bosom, and brought his hand out of his bosom, and it was again restored to the complexion of his other flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:12 - Have I conceived all this people, or have I born them? that thou sayest to me, Take them into thy bosom, as a nurse would take her suckling, into the land which thou swarest to their fathers?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 - (LXX 13:7) And if thy brother by thy father or mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife in thy bosom, or friend who is equal to thine own soul, entreat thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:54

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:54 - He that is tender and very delicate within thee shall look with an evil eye upon his brother, and the wife in his bosom, and the children that are left, which may have been left to him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:56

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:56 - And she that is tender and delicate among you, whose foot has not assayed to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:16 - And Noemin took the child and laid it in her bosom, and became a nurse to it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 - But the poor man had only one little ewe lamb, which he had purchased, and preserved, and reared; and it grew up with himself and his children in common; it ate of his bread and drank of his cup, and slept in his bosom, and was to him as a daughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:8 - and I gave thee the house of thy lord, and the wives of thy lord into thy bosom, and I gave to thee the house of Israel and Juda; and if that [fn]had been little, I would have given thee yet more.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:20 - And she arose in the middle of the night, [fn]and took my son from my arms, and laid him in her bosom, and [fn]laid her dead son in my bosom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - And Eliu said to the woman, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and took him up to the chamber in which he himself lodged, and [fn]laid him on the bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35 - And the war was turned in that day, and the king was [fn]standing on the chariot against Syria from morning till evening; and he shed the blood out of his wound, into the bottom of the chariot, and died at even, and the blood ran out of the wound into the [fn]bottom of the chariot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:27 - which I am conscious of in myself, which mine eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in my bosom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:12 - neither shall I transgress; but I have hid his words in my bosom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:34 - (for I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them:) and if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13 - (LXX 34:13) But I, when they troubled me, put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting: and my prayer shall return to my own bosom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:11 - (LXX 73:11) Wherefore turnest thou away thine hand, and thy right hand from the midst of thy bosom for ever?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:12 - (LXX 78:12) Repay to our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached thee, O Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:50

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:50 - (LXX 88:51) Remember, O Lord, the reproach of thy servants, which I have borne in my bosom, even the reproach of many nations;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:7 - (LXX 128:7) Wherewith the reaper fills not his hand, nor he that makes up the sheaves, his bosom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:27 - Shall any one bind fire in his bosom, and not burn his garments?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:33 - All evils come upon the ungodly into their bosoms; but all righteous things come of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:23 - The ways of a man who unjustly receives gifts in his bosom do not prosper; and an ungodly man perverts the ways of righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:24 - He that unjustly hides his hands in his bosom, will not even bring them up to his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:15 - A sluggard having hid his hand in his bosom, will not be able to bring it up to his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:4 - Who has gone up to heaven, and come down? who has gathered the winds in his [fn] bosom? who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? who has dominion of all the ends of the earth? what is his name? or what is the name of his children?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:9 - Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger will rest in the bosom of fools.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:22 - Thus saith the Lord, even the Lord, Behold, I lift up mine hand to the nations, and I will lift up my signal to the islands: and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and shall bear thy daughters on their shoulders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:6 - Behold, it is written before me: I will not be silent until I have recompensed into their bosom,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:7 - their sins and the sins of their fathers, saith the Lord, who have burnt incense on the mountains, and reproached me on the hills: I will recompense their works into their bosom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:18 - (LXX 39:18) Granting mercy to thousands, and recompensing the sins of the fathers into the bosoms of their children after them: the great, the strong God;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:12 - Lamed. They said to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? while they fainted like wounded men in the streets of the city, while their souls were poured out into their mother's bosom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:1 - He shall come into their midst as the land, as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and have sinned against my law.
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