κομάω
komáō · G2863 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to have long hair, to appear with long hair, to wear long hair
To wear long hair as part of one’s attire
Examples1 Corinthians 11:14 Does even nature itself not teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,
1 Corinthians 11:15 but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her as a covering.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- γυνήwoman, wife 1
- ἀνήρman, husband 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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Contrasting words 1 word
- ξυράω xyráō · G3587 · to shave
- The act of shaving or cutting hair short represents the lexical opposite of wearing long hair. This is used in Acts 21:24 and 1 Corinthians 11:5-6 in contexts contrasting with having hair.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To have long hair, to appear with long hair, to wear long hair49.25
- κομάω describes wearing the hair long. 1 Corinthians 11:14 asks, “Does even nature itself not teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,” the κομᾷ naming this wearing of long hair Paul contrasts with a man’s honor.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κόμω; (κόμη); to let the hair grow, have long hair (cf. κόμη at the end): 1 Cor 11:14f…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
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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