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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 Box1Ki 3:20 - Then she got up in the night and took my son from beside me while I was asleep. She laid her dead child in my arms and took mine to sleep beside her.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - But Elijah replied, “Give me your son.” And he took the child’s body from her arms, carried him up the stairs to the room where he was staying, and laid the body on his bed.

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