G4693Noun, neuter6 times in the New Testament (critical text)Where it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Matthew 21:13σπήλαιον
And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- Mark 11:17σπήλαιον
Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- Luke 19:46σπήλαιον
He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be a house of prayer.’ But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- John 11:38σπήλαιον
Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
- Hebrews 11:38σπηλαίοις
The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.
- Revelation 6:15σπήλαια
Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
Abbott-Smith
[in LXX chiefly for מְעָרָה ;]
a cave, cavern: Jhn.11:38, Heb.11:38, Heb.6:15; σ. (EV, den) λῃστῶν (Jhn.7:11), Mat.21:13, Mrk.11:17, Luk.19:46.†
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Sources: Abbott-Smith’s Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922, public domain) and glosses from STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAGNT (Greek New Testament, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.