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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, 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 - Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:6 - Then the LORD said, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous[fn]—it had become as white as snow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:7 - “Now put it back into your cloak,” he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:12 - Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms, as a nurse carries an infant, to the land you promised on oath to their ancestors?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 - If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:54 - Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:56

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:56 - The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:16 - Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 - but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:8 - I gave your master’s house to you, and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:20 - So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I your servant was asleep. She put him by her breast and put her dead son by my breast.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - “Give me your son,” Elijah replied. He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35 - All day long the battle raged, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. The blood from his wound ran onto the floor of the chariot, and that evening he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:27 - I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:12 - I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:34 - because I so feared the crowd and so dreaded the contempt of the clans that I kept silent and would not go outside—

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13 - Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:11 - Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the folds of your garment and destroy them!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:12 - Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:50

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:50 - Remember, Lord, how your servant has[fn] been mocked, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the nations,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:7 - a reaper cannot fill his hands with it, nor one who gathers fill his arms.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:27 - Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:33 - The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:23 - The wicked accept bribes in secret to pervert the course of justice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:24 - A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:15 - A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back 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? Whose hands have gathered up the wind? Who has wrapped up the waters in a cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is the name of his son? Surely you know!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:9 - Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:22 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “See, I will beckon to the nations, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their hips.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:6 - “See, it stands written before me: I will not keep silent but will pay back in full; I will pay it back into their laps—

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:7 - both your sins and the sins of your ancestors,” says the LORD. “Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains and defied me on the hills, I will measure into their laps the full payment for their former deeds.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:18 - You show love to thousands but bring the punishment for the parents’ sins into the laps of their children after them. Great and mighty God, whose name is the LORD Almighty,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:12 - They say to their mothers, “Where is bread and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives ebb away in their mothers’ arms.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:1 - “Put the trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the LORD because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
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