καλάμη
kalámē · G2562 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Thing
Meanings
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straw, thatch
The dry stalks of grain or reeds κάλαμος
Examples1 Corinthians 3:12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- קַשׁ qash · H7179 · stubble, chaff
- Hebrew קַשׁ (qash, H7179) denotes stubble or dry stalks remaining after harvest, corresponding directly to Greek καλάμη (kalámē, G2562) in its collective sense of grain-stalk stubble; both terms refer to the same agricultural refuse material.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Straw, thatch3.58
- In 1 Corinthians 3:12, Paul writes of building on the one foundation “with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,” using this word for the dry stalks of grain plants used as flimsy building material.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon καλάμης, ἡ, a stalk of grain or of a reed, the stalk (left after the ears are cut off),…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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