Strong's Concordance kónóps: a gnat Original Word: κώνωψ, ωπος, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: kónóps Phonetic Spelling: (ko'-nopes) Short Definition: a gnat, mosquito Definition: a gnat, mosquito, referred to proverbially as something small. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2971: κώνωψκώνωψ, κωνωπος, ὁ, a gnat ((Aeschylus), Herodotus, Hippocrates, others); of the wine-gnat or midge that is bred in (fermenting and) evaporating wine (Aristotle, h. an. 5, 19 (p. 552{b}, 5; cf. Bochart, Hierozoicon, iii. 444; Buxtorf, Lex. talm. etc. 921 (474{a} Fischer edition))): Matthew 23:24. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance gnat. Apparently a derivative of the base of kentron and a derivative of optanomai; a mosquito (from its stinging proboscis) -- gnat. see GREEK kentron see GREEK optanomai Forms and Transliterations κωνωπα κώνωπα κώπας κωπηλάται konopa kōnōpa kṓnopa kṓnōpaLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 29711 Occurrence κώνωπα — 1 Occ. Matthew 23:24 N-AMS GRK: διυλίζοντες τὸν κώνωπα τὴν δὲ NAS: who strain out a gnat and swallow KJV: which strain at a gnat, and INT: filter out the gnat and |