GreekG8040Adjective
κοῖλος
koilos
“hollow”
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Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
1.hollow, hollowed, epithet of ships, which in early times were hollowed out of trees, (Homer); later, *κοίλη ναῦς *was the hold of the ship, (Herdotus Historicus); so, ἡ *κοίλη *alone, (Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus):—;of the Trojan horse, κ. λόχος, κ. *δόρυ *(Odyssey by Homer); κ. κάπετος, of a grave, (Iliad by Homer); κ. δέμνια, of the bed when no one is in it, (Sophocles Tragicus)
2.of Places, lying in a hollow or forming a hollow, *κοίλη Λακεδαίμων *the vale of L., (Odyssey by Homer); κ. *Θεσσαλία *(Herdotus Historicus); κ. *Ἄργος *(Sophocles Tragicus); *τὰ Κοῖλα τῆς Εὐβοίας *(Herdotus Historicus); ἡ *Κοιλή *the valley of the Ilissus, (Herdotus Historicus):—; κ. *λιμήν *of a harbour lying between high cliffs, (Odyssey by Homer); κ. *αἰγιαλός *an embayed beach, (Odyssey by Homer):—; κ. *ὁδός *a hollow way, (Iliad by Homer):—; κ. *ποταμός *a river nearly empty of water, (Thucydides) (so Virgil, cava flumina) : metaphorically of the voice, hollow, *μυκάσατο κοῖλον *(Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus); *φθέγγεσθαι κοῖλον *(Lucian)
3.as Substantive κοῖλον, ου, τό, a hollow, cavity, ravine, (Plato Philosophus); like κοιλία, of the cavities in the body, τὰ κ. *γαστρός *(Euripides); also, *ἐν κοίλῳ καὶ μυχῷ τοῦ λιμένος *(Thucydides)
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Greek Adjective
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κοῖλος appears 0 times in the New Testament.
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