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κόμη

kómē · G2864 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. hair

    Hair of the head of human beings

    Examples

    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

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1 occurrences in 1 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.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Hair8.14
κόμη names the hair of the head, particularly as an ornament. 1 Corinthians 11:15 continues, “if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her as a covering,” the κόμη naming this hair given to a woman as her glory.
Word family 2 words

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

κόμηkómē · G2864κομάω komáō · G2863 · to have long hair, to appear with long hair, to wear long hair · 2×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κόμης, ἡ (from Homer down), hair, head of hair: 1 Cor 11:15. (According to Schmidt (21,…
κόμης, ἡ (from Homer down), hair, head of hair: 1 Cor 11:15. (According to Schmidt (21, 2) it differs from θρίξ (the anatomical or physical term) by designating the hair as an ornament (the notion of length being only secondary and suggested). Cf. B. D. under the word .)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Parts of the Body1 occurrence

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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