κρημνός
krēmnós · G2911 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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steep slope
Steep slope, steep side of a hill
ExamplesMatthew 8:32 And He said to them, “Go!” And they came out and went into the pigs; and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters.
Mark 5:13 Jesus gave them permission. And coming out, the unclean spirits entered the pigs; and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, about two thousand of them; and they were drowned in the sea.
Luke 8:33 And the demons came out of the man and entered the pigs; and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.
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
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- κατάaccording to, against, down 6
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ὀφρῦς ophrŷs · G3790 · cliff, brow of a hill
- Both terms denote steep, precipitous terrain features — a cliff edge or steep slope — falling within the same narrow topographical concept of a dangerous vertical drop.
In the other Testament 1 word
- סֶלַע çelaʻ · H5553 · rock, rock > leader
- Hebrew סֶלַע denotes a rugged rocky crag or cliff formation in general terrain contexts, while Greek κρημνός specifically emphasizes the overhanging or precipitous edge aspect of such formations, particularly the steep drop suitable for casting something down (as in the Gadarene swine narrative contexts where both terms align).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Steep slope1.50
- κρημνός names a steep bank or precipice. Matthew 8:32 recounts that the demons entered the herd of pigs, and “the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters,” the κρημνοῦ naming this steep bank the herd rushed down.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κρημνοῦ, ὁ (from κρεμάννυμι), a steep (place), a precipice: Mt 8:32; Mk 5:13; Lk 8:33. (2…
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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