Word

κλάσμα

klásma · G2801 · Greek · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

fragment, piece

(Derivative of κλάω ‘to break,’) A fragment or piece resulting from the action of breaking

Examples
Matthew 14:20 And they all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces: twelve full baskets.
Matthew 15:37 And they all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, seven large baskets full.
Mark 6:43 and they picked up twelve full baskets of the broken pieces of bread, and of the fish.

How it’s used In 3 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

πλήρωμαfullness, that which fills 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

αἴρωto take up, to take away, to carry 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

4 occurrences in 3 groups

κόφινοςlarge basket 2
περίσσευμαabundance 1
πλήρωμαfullness, that which fills 1

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

פַּת path · H6595 · bit, morsel: Greek κλάσμα denotes a broken-off fragment (typically of bread), while Hebrew פַּת refers to a piece or morsel of food (often bread); both terms specify a portion smaller than a whole loaf or meal, with κλάσμα emphasizing the result of breaking and פַּת the bite-sized portion itself.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Fragment, piece19.40: κλάσμα names a broken-off piece or fragment. Matthew 14:20 recounts that after the crowd ate their fill, the disciples “picked up what was left over of the broken pieces: twelve full baskets,” the κλάσματα being these leftover fragments of bread and fish.

Word family 7 words

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

κλάω kláō · G2806 · to break, to break bread, to eat a meal · 14×κλάδος kládos · G2798 · branch (of a tree or woody shrub) · 11×κλάσμαklásma · G2801κλῆμα klēma · G2814 · branch (principally of grapevines) · 4×ἐκκλάω ekkláō · G1575 · to break off · 3×κατακλάω katakláō · G2622 · to break into pieces · 2×κλάσις klásis · G2800 · to break, to break bread · 2×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κλασματος, τό (κλάω), a fragment, broken piece: plural, of remnants of food, Mt 14:20; Mt…

κλασματος, τό (κλάω), a fragment, broken piece: plural, of remnants of food, Mt 14:20; Mt 15:37; Mk 6:43; Mk 8:8, Mk 8:19; Lk 9:17; Jn 6:12f (Xenophon, cyn. 10, 5; Diodorus 17, 13; Plutarch, Tib. Gr. 19; Anthol.; the Sept..)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Break, Break Through9 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