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Notes: It is possible that in the case of such meanings as τόπος[f] (11.59: τόπος), πόλις[c] (11.61: πόλις), κώμη[b] (11.62: κώμη), and χώρα[e] (11.64: χώρα) one should count on certain more or less automatic semantic rules by which the meaning of inhabitants could be derived by metonymy from expressions of place. Since, however, such metonymic developments are far from universal, the distinct meanings are listed here as a practical guide to translators. The same type of problem occurs with Ιεροσόλυμα ‘Jerusalem,’ Ἰουδαία ‘Judea,’ and περίχωρος ‘region’ in RV MAT 3:5 · LV MAT 3:5 · Read together MAT 3:5.

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: κώμη; -ης

Related lemmas: κωμόπολις · κῶμος

Sense 1: village

Semantic entry: 1.92

Semantic domains: Geographical Objects and Features

Subdomains: Population Centers

Definition: a relatively unimportant population center (in contrast with πόλις [source selector 000001][b] ‘city,’ 1.89: πόλις)

MAT 9:35: RV MAT 9:35 · LV MAT 9:35 · Read together MAT 9:35

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OET-RV MAT 9:35

35 And Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) went around teaching in the Jewish meeting halls in all the cities and villages, announcing the good news about the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and sickness.

OET-LV MAT 9:35

35 And the Yaʸsous was _going _around all the cities and the villages, teaching in the synagogues of _them, and proclaiming the good _message of _the kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness.

MAT 10:11: RV MAT 10:11 · LV MAT 10:11 · Read together MAT 10:11

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OET-RV MAT 10:11

11 “Whatever city or village you apprentices arrive at, look around to discover who’s godly, and stay with them until you leave.

OET-LV MAT 10:11

11 And into whatever wishfully city or village you _all _may _come _in, search _out who in it is worthy, and_ remain _there until wishfully you _all _may _come _out.

All 26 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 9:35 · RV MAT 10:11 · RV MAT 14:15 · RV MAT 21:2 · LV MAT 9:35 · LV MAT 10:11 · LV MAT 14:15 · LV MAT 21:2 · Read together MAT 9:35 · Read together MAT 10:11 · Read together MAT 14:15 · Read together MAT 21:2

MRK: RV MRK 6:6 · RV MRK 6:36 · RV MRK 6:56 · RV MRK 8:23 · RV MRK 8:26–27 · RV MRK 11:2 · LV MRK 6:6 · LV MRK 6:36 · LV MRK 6:56 · LV MRK 8:23 · LV MRK 8:26–27 · LV MRK 11:2 · Read together MRK 6:6 · Read together MRK 6:36 · Read together MRK 6:56 · Read together MRK 8:23 · Read together MRK 8:26–27 · Read together MRK 11:2

JHN: RV JHN 7:42 · RV JHN 11:1 · RV JHN 11:30 · LV JHN 7:42 · LV JHN 11:1 · LV JHN 11:30 · Read together JHN 7:42 · Read together JHN 11:1 · Read together JHN 11:30

Sense 2: the people there, the people of a village

Semantic entry: 11.62

Semantic domains: Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes

Subdomains: Socio-Political

Definition: the inhabitants of a village{N:001}

Notes: Though in English it may seem perfectly appropriate to speak of ‘announcing the good news to a town’ or ‘… a village,’ in a number of languages this is simply not possible, for any announcement of good news must be directed to people and not to a place or area.

ACT 8:25: RV ACT 8:25 · LV ACT 8:25 · Read together ACT 8:25

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OET-RV ACT 8:25

25 After that, Kefa (Peter; Grk. Petros) and Yohan (John; Grk. Yoannes) continued to testify and proclaim the good message about the master in many villages around Shomron (Samaria) before they returned to Yerushalem (Jerusalem).

OET-LV ACT 8:25

25 Therefore they indeed, having _testified and having _spoken the message of _the master, were _returning to Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim), and they _were _evangelizing many villages of _the Samareitaʸs/(Shomrōn).

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

κώμη

Form 1

Sense 1: village

Sense 2: the people there, the people of a village