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Lexicon :: Strong's G2563 - kalamos

Aa
κάλαμος
Transliteration
kalamos (Key)
Pronunciation
kal'-am-os
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Or uncertain affinity
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Strong’s Definitions

κάλαμος kálamos, kal'-am-os; of uncertain affinity; a reed (the plant or its stem, or that of a similar plant); by implication, a pen:—pen, reed.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's G2563 in the following manner: reed (11x), pen (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's G2563 in the following manner: reed (11x), pen (1x).

  1. a reed

  2. a staff made of a reed, a reed staff

  3. a measuring reed or rod

  4. a writer's reed, a pen

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κάλαμος kálamos, kal'-am-os; of uncertain affinity; a reed (the plant or its stem, or that of a similar plant); by implication, a pen:—pen, reed.
STRONGS G2563:
κάλαμος, καλάμου, ὁ, from Pindar down, Latincalamus, i. e.
a. a reed: Matthew 11:7; Matthew 12:20 (from Isaiah 42:3); Luke 7:24.
b. a staff made of a reed, a reed-staff (as in 2 Kings 18:21): Matthew 27:29f, 48; Mark 15:19, 36.
c. a measuring reed or rod: Revelation 11:1; Revelation 21:15f (Ezekiel 40:3-6; Ezekiel 42:16-19).
d. a writer's reed, a pen: 3 John 1:13; (see Gardthausen, Griech. Palaeogr., p. 71f).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Kings
18:21
Isaiah
42:3
Ezekiel
40:3; 40:4; 40:5; 40:6; 42:16; 42:17; 42:18; 42:19
Matthew
11:7; 12:20; 27:29; 27:48
Mark
15:19; 15:36
Luke
7:24
3 John
1:13
Revelation
11:1; 21:15

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2563 matches the Greek κάλαμος (kalamos),
which occurs 26 times in 20 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23 - Take thou also unto thee the chief spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:21 -
He lieth under the lotus-trees,
In the covert of the reed, and the fen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:1 -
For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves.
My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter;
I speak the things which I have made touching the king:
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:30 -
Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds,
The multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples,
Trampling under foot the pieces of silver:
He hath scattered the peoples that delight in war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:14 -
Spikenard and saffron,
Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense;
Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:6 - And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:7 - And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:3 - A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:3 - And he brought me thither; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:5 - And, behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:6 - Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the steps thereof: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:7 - And every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and the space between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:8 - He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:8 - I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:12 - And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:16 - He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:17 - He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:18 - He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:19 - He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:20 - He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.
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