λιμήν
limḗn · G3040 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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harbor
A relatively small area of the sea which is well protected by land but deep enough for ships to enter and moor
ExamplesActs 27:12 The harbor was not suitable for wintering, so the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ΚρήτηCrete 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- καλόςgood 1
- βλέπωto see 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ΦοῖνιξPhœnix 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀνεύθετοςunusable 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Harbor1.75
- λιμήν names a harbor. Acts 27:12 states that “the harbor was not suitable for wintering, so the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there,” the λιμένος naming this inadequate harbor the ship's company chose to leave.
- Fair Havens93.493
- The same word also forms part of the proper name of a specific harbor in Crete. Acts 27:8 recounts that Paul's ship, sailing with difficulty, “came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea,” the Λιμένας naming this particular harbor by its given name.
Word family 1 word
This word has no family of its own: these words share its root.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon λιμένος, ὁ (allied with λίμνη, which see; from Homer down), a harbor, haven: Acts 27:8,…
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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