Word

σχοινίον

schoiníon · G4979 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. cord, rope

    Thick cord formed by twisting or braiding several strands together; made of a variety of materials, including palm fibers, linen, or reeds

    Examples

    John 2:15 And He made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;

    Acts 27:32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it fall away.

How it’s used In 3 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

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

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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In the other Testament 1 word
חֶבֶל chebel · H2256 · rope, cord, noose
Greek σχοινίον denotes specifically a rush-rope or cord made from plant fibers, while Hebrew חֶבֶל encompasses a broader semantic range including rope/cord but also extended meanings like territory, portion, and birth pangs; the two converge primarily in their shared core sense of 'cord/rope.'
Semantic domains 1 entry
Cord, rope6.18
John records that Jesus “made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and the oxen” (John 2:15).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σχοινιου, τό (diminutive of the noun σχοῖνος, ὁ and ἡ, a rush), from Herodotus down,…
σχοινιου, τό (diminutive of the noun σχοῖνος, ὁ and ἡ, a rush), from Herodotus down, properly, a cord or rope made of rushes; universally, a rope: Jn 2:15; Acts 27:32.

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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