A wave
κῦμαStrong’s G2949kuma
Appears in 5 verses of the New Testament
In short
Kuma is the Greek word usually translated “waves”. It appears in 5 verses of the New Testament.
“Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.”
Meaning
Usually translated “waves”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- waves 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 2
- Mark 1
- Acts 1
- Jude 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 8:24And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
- Matthew 14:24But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.
- Mark 4:37And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.
- Acts 27:41And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
Greek dictionary
κῦμα kuma · a wave
κῦμα, -τος, τό (κύω, to be pregnant, to swell) [in LXX chiefly for גַּל ;] a wave: pl., Mat.8:24 14:24, Mrk.4:37; κ. θαλάσσης, figuratively, Ju 13.† SYN.: κλύδων, q.v (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wave” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WAVE, noun
[G.]
- A moving swell or volume of water; usually, a swell raised and driven by wind.
- Unevenness; inequality of surface.
- The line or streak of luster on cloth watered and calendered.
All definitions and other forms of “wave”
WAVE, verb intransitive
- To play loosely; to move like a wave one way and the other; to float; to undulate.
- To be moved, as a signal.
- To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
WAVE, verb transitive
[See Waver.]
- To raise into inequalities of surface.
- To move one way and the other; to brandish; as, to wave the hand; to wave a sword.
- To waft; to remove any thing floating.
- To beckon; to direct by a waft or waving motion.
WAVE, verb transitive
- To put off; to cast off; to cast away; to reject; as, to wave good stolen; usually written waive.
- To quit; to depart from.
- To put off; to put aside for the present, or to omit to pursue; as, to wave a motion.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.