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Lexicon :: Strong's G2877 - korasion

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κοράσιον
Transliteration
korasion (Key)
Pronunciation
kor-as'-ee-on
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a presumed derivative of kore (a maiden)
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Strong’s Definitions

κοράσιον korásion, kor-as'-ee-on; neuter of a presumed derivative of κόρη kórē (a maiden); a (little) girl:—damsel, maid.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's G2877 in the following manner: damsel (6x), maid (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's G2877 in the following manner: damsel (6x), maid (2x).
  1. a girl, damsel, maiden

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κοράσιον korásion, kor-as'-ee-on; neuter of a presumed derivative of κόρη kórē (a maiden); a (little) girl:—damsel, maid.
STRONGS G2877:
κοράσιον, κορασίου, τό (diminutive of κόρη), properly, a colloquial word used disparagingly (like the German Mädel), a little girl (in the epigram attributed to Plato in (Diogenes Laërtius 3, 33; Lucian, as. 6); used by later writers without disparagement (Winers Grammar, 24 (23)), a girl, damsel, maiden: Matthew 9:24; Matthew 14:11; Mark 5:41; Mark 6:22, 28; (occasionally, as in Epictetus diss. 2, 1, 28; 3, 2, 8; 4, 10, 33; the Sept. for נַעֲרָה; twice also for יַלְדָּה Joel 3:3 (Joel 4:3); Zechariah 8:5; (Tobit 6:12; Judith 16:12; Esther 2:2)). The form and use of the word are fully discussed in Lobeck ad Phryn., p. 73f, cf. Sturz, De dial. Maced. etc., p. 42f.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Esther
2:2
Joel
3:3
Zechariah
8:5
Matthew
9:24; 14:11
Mark
5:41; 6:22; 6:28

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2877 matches the Greek κοράσιον (korasion),
which occurs 17 times in 16 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:8 -

Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter.[fn] Don’t go and gather grain in another field, and don’t leave this one, but stay here close to my female servants.

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:22 -

So Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “My daughter, it is good for you to work[fn] with his female servants, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.”

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:23 -

Ruth stayed close to Boaz’s female servants and gathered grain until the barley and the wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with[fn] her mother-in-law.

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:2 -

“Now isn’t Boaz our relative? Haven’t you been working with his female servants? This evening he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:11 -

As they were climbing the hill to the city, they found some young women coming out to draw water and asked, “Is the seer here? ”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:12 -

The women answered, “Yes, he is ahead of you. Hurry, he just now entered the city, because there’s a sacrifice for the people at the high place today.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:30 -

Then Saul became angry with Jonathan and shouted, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don’t I know that you are siding with Jesse’s son to your own shame and to the disgrace of your mother?[fn]

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:42 -

Then Abigail got up quickly, and with her five female servants accompanying her, rode on the donkey following David’s messengers. And so she became his wife.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:2 -

The king’s personal attendants suggested, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:3 -

“Let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom, so that they may gather all the beautiful young virgins to the harem at the fortress of Susa. Put them under the supervision of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women, and give them the required beauty treatments.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:7 -

Mordecai was the legal guardian of his cousin[fn] Hadassah (that is, Esther), because she had no father or mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was extremely good-looking. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:8 -

When the king’s command and edict became public knowledge and when many young women were gathered at the fortress of Susa under Hegai’s supervision, Esther was taken to the palace, into the supervision of Hegai, keeper of the women.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:9 -

The young woman pleased him and gained his favor so that he accelerated the process of the beauty treatments and the special diet that she received. He assigned seven hand-picked female servants to her from the palace and transferred her and her servants to the harem’s best quarters.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:12 -

During the year before each young woman’s turn to go to King Ahasuerus, the harem regulation required her to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:3 -

They cast lots for my people;

they bartered a boy for a prostitute

and sold a girl for wine to drink.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:5 -

“The streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in them.”

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