Greek noun (neuter) · G4693
σπήλαιον
spelaionspay'-lah-yon
cave
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: spḗlaion
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4693is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4693
a cavern; by implication, a hiding-place or resort
The King James renders it: cave, den.
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
spelaion is rendered "cave". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 21:13And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
Matthew 21:13σπήλαιον
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
- a den3
- a cave1
- caves1
- in caves1
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 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- σπήλαιον4
- σπήλαια1
- σπηλαίοις1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular3N-ASN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural1N-APN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural1N-DPN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1N-NSN
Matthew
one use
And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- σπήλαιονspelaionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a den
Mark
one use
Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- σπήλαιονspelaionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a den
Luke
one use
He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be a house of prayer.’ But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- σπήλαιονspelaionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a den
John
one use
Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
- σπήλαιονspelaionnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: a cave
Hebrews
one use
The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.
- σπηλαίοιςspelaioisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: in caves
Revelation
one use
Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
- σπήλαιαspelaianoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: caves
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.