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Lexicon :: Strong's G2968 - kōmē

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κώμη
Transliteration
kōmē (Key)
Pronunciation
ko'-may
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

κώμη kṓmē, ko'-may; from G2749; a hamlet (as if laid down):—town, village.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 28x

The KJV translates Strong's G2968 in the following manner: village (17x), town (11x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 28x
The KJV translates Strong's G2968 in the following manner: village (17x), town (11x).
  1. the common sleeping place to which labourers in the field return, a village

  2. the name of the city near which the villages lie and to whose municipality they belong

  3. the inhabitants of villages

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κώμη kṓmē, ko'-may; from G2749; a hamlet (as if laid down):—town, village.
STRONGS G2968:
κώμη, κόμης, (akin to κεῖμαι, κοιμάω, properly, the common sleeping-place to which laborers in the fields return; Curtius, § 45 (related is English home)) (from Hesiod, Herodotus down), a village: Matthew 9:35; Matthew 10:11; Mark 11:2; Luke 5:17; Luke 9:52 (here Tdf. πόλιν), and often in the Synoptative Gospels; John 11:1, 30; with the name of the city near which the villages lie and to whose municipality they belong: Καισαρείας, Mark 8:27 (often so in the Sept. for בְּנות with the name of a city; cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, i., p. 220{a} (B. D., under the word , 7); also for חַצְרֵי and חַצְרות with the name of a city); by metonymy, the inhabitants of villages, Acts 8:25; used also of a small town, as Bethsaida, Mark 8:23, 26, cf. Mark 8:22; John 1:45; of Bethlehem, John 7:42; for עִיר, Joshua 10:39; Joshua 15:9 (Complutensian LXX); Isaiah 42:11. (B. D., under the word Villages.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Joshua
10:39; 15:9
Isaiah
42:11
Matthew
9:35; 10:11
Mark
8:22; 8:23; 8:26; 8:27; 11:2
Luke
5:17; 9:52
John
1:45; 7:42; 11:1; 11:30
Acts
8:25

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2968 matches the Greek κώμη (kōmē),
which occurs 68 times in 51 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Num 21:32–Jer 49:25)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:32 - And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its towns and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:42 - And Nobah went and took Kenath and its towns and called it Nobah after his own name.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:39 - And he captured it and its king and all its cities, and they struck them with the edge of the sword and devoted every person who was in it to destruction. He left no survivor remaining. Just as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, as he had also done to Libnah and its king.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:30 - And their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all of [fn]Havvoth-jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:24 - Ziph and Telem and Bealoth,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:28 - and Hazar-shual and Beersheba and Biziothiah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:32 - and Lebaoth and Shilhim and Ain and Rimmon; in all, twenty-nine cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:36 - and Shaaraim and Adithaim and Gederah and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:41 - and Gederoth, Beth-dagon and Naamah and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:44 - and Keilah and Achzib and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:45 -

Ekron, with its towns and its villages;

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:46 - from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the [fn]side of Ashdod, with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:47 -

Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; as far as the [fn]brook of Egypt and the Great Sea, even its [fn]coastline.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:51 - and Goshen and Holon and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:57 - Kain, Gibeah and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:59 - and Maarath and Beth-anoth and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:62 - and Nibshan and the City of Salt and Engedi; six cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:7 - And it went down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah and reached Jericho and came out at the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:9 - together with the cities which were set apart for the sons of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:11 - And in Issachar and in Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, the third is Napheth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:16 - And the sons of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the valley land have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth-shean and its towns and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:24 - and Chephar-ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28 - and Zelah, Haeleph and the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:6 - and Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:7 - Ain, Rimmon and Ether and Ashan; four cities with their villages;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:16 - This was the inheritance of the sons of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:23 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:31 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:48 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:12 - But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:18 - and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages. The large [fn]stone on which they set the ark of Yahweh is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:23 -

But Geshur and Aram took [fn]Havvoth-jair from them, with Kenath and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:16 - They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of Sharon, as far as their [fn]borders.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:54 -

Now these are their settlements according to their camps within their borders. To the sons of Aaron of the families of the Kohathites (for the lot was theirs first),

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:56 - but the fields of the city and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28 -

Now their possessions and settlements were Bethel with its towns, and to the east [fn]Naaran, and to the west Gezer with its towns, and Shechem with its towns as far as [fn]Ayyah with its towns,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:29 - and along the [fn]borders of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-shean with its towns, Taanach with its towns, Megiddo with its towns, Dor with its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:12 -

The sons of Elpaal were Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:16 -

and [fn]Obadiah the son of [fn]Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:1 -

Now it happened afterwards, that David struck the Philistines and subdued them and took Gath and its towns from the hand of the Philistines.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:25 -

Now Azmaveth the son of Adiel was over the king’s storehouses.

And Jonathan the son of Uzziah was over the storehouses in the country, in the cities, in the villages and in the towers.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:19 - And Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured from him several cities, Bethel with its towns, Jeshanah with its towns, and [fn]Ephron with its towns.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:14 - And they struck down all the cities around Gerar, for the dread of Yahweh had fallen on them; and they plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:18 - And the Philistines also had raided the cities of the [fn]Shephelah and of the [fn]Negev of Judah, and had captured Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, and Soco with its towns, Timnah with its towns, and Gimzo with its towns, and they settled there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2 - that Sanballat and Geshem sent a message to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together at [fn]Chephirim in the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to [fn]do me harm.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:11 -

“Come, my beloved, let us go out into the [fn]fields,

Let us spend the night in the villages.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:14 -

Because the palace has been abandoned, the [fn]populated city forsaken.

[fn]Hill and watchtower have become caves forever,

A joy for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:11 -

Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voices,

The villages where Kedar inhabits.

Let the inhabitants of Sela sing aloud,

Let them shout for joy from the tops of the mountains.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:15 - “Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire calamity that I have spoken against it because they have stiffened their necks so as not to hear My words.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:25 -

“How [fn]the city of praise has not been forsaken,

The town of My joy!


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