2001 Translation

KOMAS, komas

Sounds Like: koh-MAS

Translations: hair, a head of hair, locks

From the root: ΚΟΜΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to hair, specifically the hair of the head, often implying long or flowing hair. It is typically used in the plural to refer to a person's entire head of hair. For example, one might speak of 'cutting the hair' or 'having long hair'.

Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G2864 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 5 — 8:278, 8:311
• Book 14 — 3:45

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 25:24
• Book Two — 15:5
• Book Four — 9:76

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 3 Maccabees — 1:18
• Ezekiel — 44:20

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΟΜΗ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΚΟΜΑΙ — hair, a hair
• ΚΟΜΑΙΣ — to hair, to hairs, with hair, with hairs, to a head of hair, with a head of hair
• ΚΟΜΗ — hair, a hair, head of hair, a head of hair
• ΚΟΜΗΝ — hair, a hair
• ΚΟΜΗΣ — of hair, of a hair, hair, a hair

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