2001 Translation

LIMNĒN, limnēn

Sounds Like: LIM-nayne

Translations: lake, a lake, pond, a pond

From the root: ΛΙΜΝΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a body of standing water, typically a lake or a pond. It is used to describe natural or artificial collections of water that are larger than a pool but smaller than a sea. In the provided examples, it consistently refers to a lake.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G3041 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• Luke — 5:2
• Revelation — 19:20, 20:14, 20:15

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 22:174

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 4 — 5:85
• Book 9 — 1:8
• Book 15 — 6:168
• Book 17 — 6:171

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 34:11
• Book Two — 20:18
• Book Three — 10:36, 10:38, 10:41, 10:44, 10:54, 10:61
• Book Four — 7:51
• Book Seven — 6:6, 7:26

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 18:96, 31:153, 33:165, 59:304

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 10:2, 10:5

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 2 Maccabees — 12:16

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 5:1, 5:2, 8:23, 8:33
• Revelation — 19:20, 20:10, 20:14, 20:15

From the same root

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

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.

• ΛΙΜΝΑΙ — lakes, ponds
• ΛΙΜΝΑΣ — lakes, ponds, marshes, of a lake, of a pond, of a marsh
• ΛΙΜΝΗ — lake, a lake, pond, a pond, marsh, a marsh
• ΛΙΜΝΗΣ — of a lake, of the lake, lake
• ΛΙΜΝΩΝ — (of) lakes, (of) ponds, (of) marshes
• ΛΙΜΝ‾Η‾ — lake, a lake, pond, a pond
• ΤΗΣΛΙΜΝΗΣ — of the lake, of a lake, of the marsh, of a marsh

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