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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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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

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, (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 θανόνταςἈβραάμ 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); 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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - So Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I put my slave woman into your [fn]arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was insignificant in her [fn]sight. May the LORD judge between [fn]you and me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:6 -

The LORD furthermore said to him, “Now put your hand inside the fold of your robe.” So he put his hand inside the fold, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:7 - Then He said, “Put your hand inside the fold of your robe again.” So he put his hand into the fold again, and when he took it out of the fold, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:12 - “Was it I who conceived all this people? Or did I give birth to them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them [fn]in your arms, as a [fn]nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers’?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 -

“If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife [fn]you cherish, or your friend who is like your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let’s go and serve other gods’ (whom neither you nor your fathers have known,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:54 - “The man who is [fn]refined and very delicate among you [fn]will be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife [fn]he cherishes, and toward the rest of his children who are left,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:56 - “The [fn]refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and tenderness, [fn]will be hostile toward the husband [fn]she cherishes and toward her son and daughter,
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:16 - Then Naomi took the child and [fn]laid him in her lap, and became his nurse.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 -

“But the poor man had nothing at all except one little ewe lamb

Which he bought and nurtured;

And it grew up together with him and his children.

It would eat [fn]scraps from him and drink from his cup and lie [fn]in his lap,

And was like a daughter to him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:8 - ‘I also gave you your master’s house and put your master’s wives [fn]into your care, and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added to you [fn]many more things like these!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:20 - “So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your servant was asleep, and she laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - But he said to her, “Give me your son.” Then he took him from her [fn]arms and carried him up to the upstairs room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35 - The battle [fn]raged on that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot in front of the Arameans, and he died at evening, and the blood from the wound ran into the bottom of the chariot.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:27 -

Whom I, on my part, shall behold for myself,

And whom my eyes will see, and not another.

My [fn]heart faints [fn]within me!

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:12 -

“I have not [fn]failed the command of His lips;

I have treasured the words of His mouth [fn]more than my [fn]necessary food.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:34 -

Because I feared the great multitude

And the contempt of families terrified me,

And I kept silent and did not go out of doors?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13 -

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth;

I humbled my soul with fasting,

But my prayer kept returning to [fn]me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:11 -

Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?

Extend it from Your chest and destroy them!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:12 -

And return to our neighbors seven times as much into their lap

Their taunts with which they have taunted You, Lord.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:50 -

Remember, Lord, the taunt against Your servants;

[fn]How I carry in my heart the taunts of all the many peoples,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:7 -

With which the harvester does not fill his [fn]hand,

Or the binder of sheaves his [fn]arms;

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:27 -

Can anyone take fire in his lap

And his clothes not be burned?

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:33 -

The lot is cast into the lap,

But its every decision is from the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:23 -

A wicked person accepts a bribe [fn]from an inside pocket

To pervert the ways of justice.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:24 -

The [fn]lazy one buries his hand in the dish,

But will not even bring it back to his mouth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:15 -

A lazy one buries his hand in the dish;

He is weary of bringing it to his mouth again.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:4 -

Who has ascended into heaven and descended?

Who has gathered the wind in His fists?

Who has wrapped the waters in [fn]His garment?

Who has established all the ends of the earth?

What is His name or His [fn]Son’s name?

Surely you know!

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:9 -

Do not be [fn]eager in your spirit to be angry,

For anger resides in the [fn]heart of fools.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:22 -

This is what the Lord [fn]GOD says:

“Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations

And set up My flag to the peoples;

And they will bring your sons [fn]in their arms,

And your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:6 -

“Behold, it is written before Me:

I will not keep silent, but I will repay;

I will even repay [fn]into their laps,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:7 -

Both your own wrongdoings and the wrongdoings of your fathers together,” says the LORD.

“Because they have burned incense on the mountains

And scorned Me on the hills,

Therefore I will measure their former work [fn]into their laps.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:18 - who shows mercy to thousands, but repays the wrongdoing of fathers into the laps of their children after them, great and mighty God. The LORD of armies is His name;
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:12 -

They say to their mothers,

“Where is grain and wine?”

As they faint like a wounded person

In the streets of the city,

As their lives are poured out

[fn]In their mothers’ arms.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:1 -

Put the trumpet to your [fn]lips!

Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the LORD,

Because they have violated My covenant

And rebelled against My Law.

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