λίμνη
límnē · G3041 · Greek · 11 occurrences
Meanings
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lake, pool
A relatively small body of water either natural or artificial, surrounded by land
ExamplesLuke 5:1 Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around Him and listening to the word of God, He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret;
Luke 5:2 and He saw two boats lying at the edge of the lake; but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.
Luke 8:22 Now on one of those days Jesus and His disciples got into a boat, and He said to them, “Let’s cross over to the other side of the lake.” So they launched out.
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lake of fire, hell
(An idiom, literally: lake of fire (and sulfur), occurring in some slightly different forms six times in Revelation, three times with the addition of θεῖον ‘sulfur’) A place of eternal punishment and destruction
ExamplesRevelation 21:8 “But for the cowardly, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral persons, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
How it’s used In 5 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
6 occurrences in 3 groups
- πῦρfire 5
- ΓεννησαρέτGennesaret 1
- θεῖονsulfur 1
Named alongside itApposition
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- θάνατοςdeath 1
- καίωto burn 1
- ὅπουwhere, wherever, in which 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μέροςpart 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
9 occurrences in 3 groups
- εἰςto 13
- παράfrom, with, beside 4
- ἐνin 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πέρανon the other side of, across 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
- Lake of fire, hell1.22
- λίμνη can name the lake of fire, the place of final judgment. Revelation 19:20 states that the beast and the false prophet “were thrown alive into the lake of fire, which burns with brimstone,” the λίμνην naming this fiery lake of judgment.
- Lake, pool1.72
- The same word more ordinarily names a body of water such as a lake. Luke 5:1 recounts that “the crowd was pressing around Him and listening to the word of God, He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret,” the λίμνην naming this literal lake beside which Jesus taught.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon λίμνης, ἡ (from λείβω to pour, pour out (cf. Curtius, § 541)) (from Homer down), a lake:…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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