Lexical Summary kōmē: a village Original Word: κώμηTransliteration: kōmē Phonetic Spelling: (ko'-may) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a village Meaning: a village Strong's Concordance town, village. From keimai; a hamlet (as if laid down) -- town, village. see GREEK keimai Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2968: κώμηκώμη, κόμης, ἡ (akin to κεῖμαι, κοιμάω, properly, the common sleeping-place to which laborers in the fields return; Curtius, § 45 (related is English home)) (from Hesiod, Herodotus down), a village: Matthew 9:35; Matthew 10:11; Mark 11:2; Luke 5:17; Luke 9:52 (here Tdf. πόλιν), and often in the Synoptative Gospels; John 11:1, 30; with the name of the city near which the villages lie and to whose municipality they belong: Καισαρείας, Mark 8:27 (often so in the Sept. for בְּנות with the name of a city; cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, i., p. 220{a} (B. D., under the word |
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