νῆσος
nēsos · G3520 · Greek · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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island
An area of land completely surrounded by water
ExamplesActs 13:6 When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus,
Acts 27:26 “But we must run aground on a certain island.”
Acts 28:1 When they had been brought safely through, then we found out that the island was called Malta.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τὶςsomeone 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- καλέωto call, to name 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- κινέωto move 1
- φεύγωto flee, to run away 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ΜελίτηMelita 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐνin 6
- εἰςto 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πρῶτοςfirst 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- אִי ʼîy · H339 · coast, coastland, island
- Hebrew אִי (ʼîy, H339) is the direct semantic equivalent of Greek νῆσος (nēsos, G3520), both denoting an island or coastland territory surrounded by water.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Island1.66
- Describing the missionary journey through Cyprus, Acts 13:6 states “When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus,” where “island” renders this ordinary term for an island, later also used of Malta in Acts 28:1.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon νήσου, ὁ (νεώ, to swim, properly, 'floating land'), an island: Acts 13:6; Acts 27:26;…
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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