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Strong's G2968 κώμη (kome)

Kome means “town” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2968 — yaab (“long”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2968
Language Greek
Linked Usages 85
Books 19

Strong's G2968 Quick Answer

Strong's G2968 κώμη (kome) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kome (ko'-may) n. 1. a hamlet (as if laid down) [from G2749] It has 85 linked Bible usages across 19 books. Visible English usage signals include village, town, towns, and laid. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
kome (ko'-may) n. 1. a hamlet (as if laid down) [from G2749]
Usage
85 linked usages
Books
19 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
village, town, towns, and laid

Meaning and Definition

kome (ko'-may) n. 1. a hamlet (as if laid down) [from G2749] KJV: town, village Root(s): G2749

Original Word
κώμη
Transliteration
kome
Derivation
Root: κεῖμαι R1: 2749
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2968. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

village

Usage: κώμη, -ης, ἡ [in LXX for בַּת, חָצֵר, עִיר, etc. ;] a village or country town, prop, as opposite to a walled city: Mat.14:15, Mrk.6:6, al.; πόλεις καὶ κ., Mat.9:35, al.; with the name added, Βηθλεέμ, Jhn.7:42; Βηθανΐα, Jhn.11:1; with the name of the district, τὰς κ. Καισαρίας, Mrk.8:27; Σαμαρειτῶν, Luk.9:52, Act.8:25 (AS)

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How Strong's G2968 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kome, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

village Matthew 21:2 10× town Matthew 10:11 towns Mark 8:27 laid Mark 6:56

How Strong's G2968 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 50 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2968 (κώμη) appears 74 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2968 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2968 in the New Testament

27 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 9:35 KJV

And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

Matthew 10:11 KJV

And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.

Matthew 14:15 KJV

And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.

Strong's G2968 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

50 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Numbers 21:32 Septuagint / Brenton

And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took it, and its villages, and cast out the Amorite that dwelt there.

Numbers 32:42 Septuagint / Brenton

And Nobah went and took Kohath and her villages, and called them Nobah after his name.

Joshua 10:39 Septuagint / Brenton

and they took it, and its king, and its villages: and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and they destroyed it, and everything breathing in it; and they did not leave in it anyone that was preserved: as they did to Hebron and her king, so they did to Debir and her king.

Strong's G2968 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 4:50 Septuagint / Brenton

and that all the country which they hold should be free without tribute; and that the Idumeans should give over the villages of the Jews which then they held:

1 Esdras 5:45 Septuagint / Brenton

and to give into the holy treasury of the works a thousand pounds of gold, five thousand of silver, and a hundred priestly vestments.

Judith 4:5 Septuagint / Brenton

and possessed themselves beforehand of all the tops of the high mountains, and fortified the villages that were in them, and laid up victuals for the provision of war: for their fields were of late reaped.

Usage Excerpts

First 85 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2968.

Numbers 21:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took it, and its villages, and cast out the Amorite that dwelt there.
Numbers 32:42 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Nobah went and took Kohath and her villages, and called them Nobah after his name.
Joshua 10:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they took it, and its king, and its villages: and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and they destroyed it, and everything breathing in it; and they did not leave in it anyone that was preserved: as they did to Hebron and her king, so they did to Debir and her king.
Joshua 13:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And their borders were from Mahanaim, and all the kingdom of Bashan, and all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in the region of Bashan, sixty cities:
Joshua 15:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Balmaenan, and their villages,
Joshua 15:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Cholaseola, and Beersheba; and their villages, and their hamlets,
Joshua 15:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Eromoth; twenty-nine cities, and their villages.
Joshua 15:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Shaaraim and Gederah, and its villages; fourteen cities, and their villages;
Joshua 15:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Gederoth, and Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities, and their villages;
Joshua 15:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Keilah, and Akiezi, and Kezib, and Bathesar, and Aelom: ten cities, and their villages;
Joshua 15:45 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ekron and her villages, and their hamlets:
Joshua 15:46 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
from Ekron, Gemna, and all the cities that are near Asedoth; and their villages.
Joshua 15:47 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ashdod, and her villages, and her hamlets; Gaza, and its villages and its hamlets as far as the river of Egypt, and the great sea is the boundary.
Joshua 15:51 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Goshen, and Holon, and Channa, and Giloh: eleven cities, and their villages;
Joshua 15:57 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Gibeah, and Timnah; nine cities, and their villages;
Joshua 15:59 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities, and their villages;
Joshua 15:62 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with their villages.
Joshua 16:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and to Macho, and Ataroth, and these are their villages; and they will come to Jericho, and will issue at Jordan.
Joshua 16:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the cities separated to the sons of Ephraim were in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities and their villages.
Joshua 17:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Manasseh shall have in the portion of Issachar and Asher Beth-shean and their villages, and the inhabitants of Dor, and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo, and its villages, and the third part of Naphath, and its villages.
Joshua 17:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they said, The mount of Ephraim does not please us, and the Canaanite dwelling in it in Beth-shean, and in its villages, and in the Valley of Jezreel, has choice cavalry and iron.
Joshua 18:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Carapha, and Cephar, and Ammoni, and Geba, twelve cities and their villages:
Joshua 18:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Jebus (this is Jerusalem); and Gibeah, Jearim, thirteen cities, and their villages; this is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.
Joshua 19:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Beth-lebaoth, and their fields, thirteen cities, and their villages.
Joshua 19:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Rimmon, and Thalcha, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages,
Joshua 19:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun according to their families, these cities and their villages.
Joshua 19:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.
Joshua 19:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families, the cities and their villages.
Joshua 21:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the lands of the city, and its villages Joshua gave to the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh for a possession.
1 Kingdoms 6:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the golden mice according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines, belonging to the five lords, from the fenced city to the village of the Perizzite, and to the great stone, on which they placed the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that was in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemeshite.
1 Chronicles 2:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he took Geshur and Aram, the towns of Jair from them; with Kenath and its towns, sixty cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 5:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They dwelt in Gilead, in Bashan, and in their villages, and in all the country round about Sharon to the border.
1 Chronicles 6:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And these are their residences in their villages, in their coasts, to the sons of Aaron, to their family the Kohathites: for they had the lot.
1 Chronicles 6:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
1 Chronicles 7:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And their possession and their dwelling were Bethel and her towns, to the east Naaran, westward Gezer and her towns, and Shechem and her towns, as far as Gaza and her towns.
1 Chronicles 7:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And as far as the borders of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-shean and her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor and her towns. In this the children of Joseph the son of Israel dwelt.
1 Chronicles 8:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the sons of Elpaal; Eber, Misham, Shemed: he built Ono, and Lod, and its towns:
1 Chronicles 9:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Obadiah, son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah son of Asa, son of Elkanah—who dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.
1 Chronicles 18:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass afterward, that David smote the Philistines, and routed them, and took Gath and its villages out of the hand of the Philistines.
1 Chronicles 27:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel; and over the treasures in the country, and in the towns, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah.
2 Chronicles 13:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and he took from him the cities, Bethel and her towns, and Jeshanah and her towns, and Ephron and her towns.
2 Chronicles 14:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they destroyed their towns round about Gedor; for a terror of the Lord was upon them: and they spoiled all their cities, for they had much spoil.
2 Chronicles 28:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Also the Philistines had made an attack on the cities of the plain country, and the cities of the south of Judah, and taken Beth-shemesh, and the things in the house of the Lord, and the things in the house of the king, and of the princes: and they gave to the King Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Soco and her villages, and Timnah and her villages, and Gimzo and her villages: and they dwelt there.
Nehemiah 6:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
Song of Solomon 7:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Come, my kinsman, let us go forth into the field; Let us lodge in the villages.
Isaiah 32:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As for the rich city, the houses are deserted; they shall abandon the wealth of the city, and the pleasant houses: and the villages shall be caves forever, the joy of wild asses, shepherds’ pastures;
Isaiah 42:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Rejoice, thou wilderness, and the villages thereof, the hamlets, and the dwellers in Kedar: the inhabitants of the rock shall rejoice, they shall shout from the top of the mountains.
Jeremiah 19:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, I bring upon this city, and upon all the cities belonging to it, and upon the villages of it, all the evils which I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their neck, that they might not hearken to my commands.
Jeremiah 30:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How has she not left my city, they have loved the village?
Ezekiel 38:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Sheba, and Dedan, and Carthaginian merchants, and all their villages shall say to thee, Thou art come for plunder to take a prey, and to get spoils: thou hast gathered thy multitude to take silver and gold, to carry off property, to take spoils.
Matthew 9:35 New Testament, KJV
And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
Matthew 10:11 New Testament, KJV
And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
Matthew 14:15 New Testament, KJV
And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
Matthew 21:2 New Testament, KJV
Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.
Mark 6:6 New Testament, KJV
And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.
Mark 6:36 New Testament, KJV
Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.
Mark 6:56 New Testament, KJV
And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
Mark 8:23 New Testament, KJV
And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
Mark 8:26 New Testament, KJV
And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.
Mark 8:27 New Testament, KJV
And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?
Mark 11:2 New Testament, KJV
And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him.
Luke 5:17 New Testament, KJV
And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
Luke 8:1 New Testament, KJV
And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,
Luke 9:6 New Testament, KJV
And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.
Luke 9:12 New Testament, KJV
And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.
Luke 9:52 New Testament, KJV
And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.
Luke 9:56 New Testament, KJV
For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.
Luke 10:38 New Testament, KJV
Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
Luke 13:22 New Testament, KJV
And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.
Luke 17:12 New Testament, KJV
And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:
Luke 19:30 New Testament, KJV
Saying, Go ye into the village over against you; in the which at your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring him hither.
Luke 24:13 New Testament, KJV
And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.
Luke 24:28 New Testament, KJV
And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.
John 7:42 New Testament, KJV
Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
John 11:1 New Testament, KJV
Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
John 11:30 New Testament, KJV
Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.
Acts 8:25 New Testament, KJV
And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
1 Esdras 4:50 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and that all the country which they hold should be free without tribute; and that the Idumeans should give over the villages of the Jews which then they held:
1 Esdras 5:45 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and to give into the holy treasury of the works a thousand pounds of gold, five thousand of silver, and a hundred priestly vestments.
Judith 4:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and possessed themselves beforehand of all the tops of the high mountains, and fortified the villages that were in them, and laid up victuals for the provision of war: for their fields were of late reaped.
Judith 15:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel that returned from the slaughter had that which remained; and the villages and the cities, that were in the mountains and in the plain, got many spoils: for the multitude was very great.
1 Maccabees 7:46 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Whereupon they came forth out of all the towns of Judea round about, and closed them in; so that they, turning back upon them that pursued them, were all slain with the sword, and not one of them was left.
2 Maccabees 8:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then Judas Maccabeus, and they that were with him, went privily into the towns, and called their kinsfolks together, and took unto them all such as continued in the Jews’ religion, and assembled about six thousand men.
2 Maccabees 8:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore he came at unawares, and burned up towns and cities, and got into his hands the most commodious places, and overcame and put to flight no small number of his enemies.
2 Maccabees 14:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So at the commandment of the captain they removed straightaway from thence, and came near unto them at the town of Dessau.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2968, grouped by book.

Numbers 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 27 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 4 usages, New Testament
Mark 7 usages, New Testament
Luke 12 usages, New Testament
John 3 usages, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G2968 FAQ

What does kome (κώμη) mean?

Kome (Strong's G2968) is a Greek word most simply glossed "town". kome (ko'-may) n. 1. a hamlet (as if laid down) [from G2749]

How many times is kome (κώμη) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 85 linked usages for Strong's G2968 across 19 books.

Where can I study kome (κώμη) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2968 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate kome (κώμη)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as village, town, towns, and laid. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2968 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 50 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2968, with linked reader references where each row is available.