STRONGS G2968:
κώμη,
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 , 7); also for
חַצְרֵי and
חַצְרות with the name of a city); by metonymy,
the inhabitants of villages, Acts 8:25; used also of a small town, as Bethsaida,
Mark 8:23,
26, cf.
Mark 8:22;
John 1:45; of Bethlehem,
John 7:42; for
עִיר,
Joshua 10:39;
Joshua 15:9 (
Complutensian LXX);
Isaiah 42:11. (
B. D., under the word
Villages.)
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