Greek noun (neuter) · G2949
κῦμα
kymakoo'-mah
a wave
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kŷma
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2949is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2949
a billow (as bursting or toppling)
The King James renders it: wave.
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
kyma is rendered "a wave". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 8:24Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves; but Jesus was sleeping.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves; but Jesus was sleeping.
Matthew 8:24κυμάτων
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- waves5
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.
All 5, 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
- κυμάτων3
- κύματα2
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter plural3N-GPN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter plural2N-NPN
Matthew
two uses
Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves; but Jesus was sleeping.
- κυμάτωνkumatonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: waves
but the boat was already far from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.
- κυμάτωνkumatonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: waves
Mark
one use
Soon a violent windstorm came up, and the waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was being swamped.
- κύματαkumatanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: waves
Acts
one use
But the vessel struck a sandbar and ran aground. The bow stuck fast and would not move, and the stern was being broken up by the pounding of the waves.
- κυμάτωνkumatonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: waves
Jude
one use
They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
- κύματαkumatanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: waves
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.