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αἰγιαλός

aigialós · G123 · Greek · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. beach, shore

    A strip of land immediately bordering the edge of a body of water and gradually sloping down into the water

    Examples

    Matthew 13:2 And large crowds gathered to Him, so He got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd was standing on the beach.

    Matthew 13:48 and when it was filled, they pulled it up on the beach; and they sat down and gathered the good fish into containers, but the bad they threw away.

    John 21:4 But when the day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Semantic domains 1 entry
Beach, shore1.63
This noun denotes the shoreline where waves break, as in John 21:4's account of Jesus standing on the beach as the day was breaking.
Word family 10 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἅλς háls · G251 · "salt" · 0×ἅλας hálas · G217 · salt · 8×αἰγιαλόςaigialós · G123ἁλιεύς halieús · G231 · fisherman · 5×ἁλίζω halízō · G233 · to apply salt to something, to restore the flavor to salt · 2×ἁλιεύω halieúō · G232 · to fish · 1×ἁλυκός halykós · G252 · salty · 1×ἄναλος ánalos · G358 · without salt, saltless · 1×ἐνάλιος enálios · G1724 · sea creature, fish · 1×παράλιος parálios · G3882 · coastal region · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (οῦ, ὁ, the shore of the sea, beach, (from Homer down): Mt 13:2, Mt 13:48; Jn 21:4; Acts…
(οῦ, ὁ, the shore of the sea, beach, (from Homer down): Mt 13:2, Mt 13:48; Jn 21:4; Acts 21:5; Acts 27:39, Acts 27:40. (Many derive the word from ἄγνυμι and ἅλς, as though equivalent to ἀκτή, the place where the sea breaks; others from αἶγες billows and ἅλς (Curtius, § 140; Vanicek, p. 83); others from ἀΐσσω and ἅλς (Schenkl, Liddell and Scott, under the word), the place where the sea rushes forth, bounds forward).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Land in Contrast With the Sea6 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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