Greek noun (feminine) · G2861
κολυμβήθρα
kolymbethrakol-oom-bay'-thrah
pool
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kolymbḗthra
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2861is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2861
a diving-place, i.e. pond for bathing (or swimming)
The King James renders it: pool.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kolymbethra is rendered "pool". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 5:2Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.
John 5:2κολυμβήθρα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in John.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- pool2
- a pool1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κολυμβάω | kolymbao | to swim | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- κολυμβήθραν2
- κολυμβήθρα1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular2N-ASF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
John
three uses
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.
- κολυμβήθραkolumbethranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: a pool
“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am on my way, someone else goes in before me.”
- κολυμβήθρανkolumbethrannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: pool
Then He told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.
- κολυμβήθρανkolumbethrannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: pool
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.