Strong G2583κανών
rule
- Transliteration
- kanōn
- Pronunciation
- kan-ohn'
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
Fromκάνη kanē (a straight reed that is rod); a rule (canon) that is (figuratively) a standard (of faith and practice); by implication a boundary that is (figuratively) a sphere (of activity): - line rule.
Detailed definition
κανών, -όνος, ὁ
(cf. κάννα, and Heb. קָנֶה, a reed), [in LXX: Mic.7:4, Jdth.13:6, 4Ma.7:21 (and in Aq., Psa.19:5, Job.38:5)*;]
1. a rod or bar (Jth, l.with).
2. a measuring rule; hence, metaph,
3. a rule or standard: Gal.6:16.
4. a limit (RV, province): 2Co.10:13-16. (For the history of the word and esp. its later meanings, see Westc., Canon, App. A; cf. also MM, Exp., xv; Cremer, 744.)†
(AS)
(cf. κάννα, and Heb. קָנֶה, a reed), [in LXX: Mic.7:4, Jdth.13:6, 4Ma.7:21 (and in Aq., Psa.19:5, Job.38:5)*;]
1. a rod or bar (Jth, l.with).
2. a measuring rule; hence, metaph,
3. a rule or standard: Gal.6:16.
4. a limit (RV, province): 2Co.10:13-16. (For the history of the word and esp. its later meanings, see Westc., Canon, App. A; cf. also MM, Exp., xv; Cremer, 744.)†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2583 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- rule4
- by1
- thing1
First verses
- 2 Corinthians 10:13But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
- 2 Corinthians 10:15Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
- 2 Corinthians 10:16To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.
- Galatians 6:16And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
- Philippians 3:16Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Occurrences by book
Detailed Greek dictionary
κᾰνών, όνος, ὁ,
straight rod, bar, especially to keep a thing straight:
1 in plural, staves which preserved the shape of the shield, [ἀσπίδα] δύω κανόνεσσ᾽ ἀραρυῖαν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.407, compare 8.193, 4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Orationes” 21.257a.)]
2 weaver's rod, to which alternate threads of the warp were attached, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.761, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 822 (_anapaest meter_), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.156b, 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 37.631.)]
3 ruddled line used by masons or carpenters, πύργους.. ὀρθοῖσιν ἔθεμεν κανόσιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 6; βάθρα φοίνικι κανόνι.. ἡρμοσμένα [prev. author] “HF” 945; also κ. λίθινος)]rule, straight-edge, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 12.313.113, 373.217, +others, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 56b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 10.2, “Anthologia Graeca” 11.120 (from Callicter))]; ὥστε τέκτονος παρὰ στάθμην ἰόντος ὀρθοῦται κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 474.5; κανόνα προσφέρειν 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.199; ποιῶν ὀρθὰ πάντα πρὸς κανόνα “IG” 7.3073.108 (Lebad., 2nd c.BC))]; κανόνεσσι.. μετρήσασθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.724, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1004)]; μολίβδινος κ., i.e. a flexible rule that cannot be depended on for straight measurement, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1137b31 (unless ={κῦμα}); κανόνα ποιῆσαι στρεβλόν [prev. author] “Rh.” 1354a26.)]
3.b ruler, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (Anthologia Graeca 6.63.2 (6th c.AD: Damocharis Epigrammaticus).)]
3.c metaphorically, κανόνες καὶ πήχεις ἐπῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 799; λαμπρὰ μὲν ἀκτὶς ἡλίου, κ. σαφής 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 650.)]
4 beam or tongue of the balance, στῆσαι ἐκ κανόνος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 11.334, cf. Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 811.)]
5 curtain-rod, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Chares Historicus “fragment” 4J.)]
6 in plural, reeds of a wind-organ, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.365 (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator Imp.).)]
7 bed-post, [LXX (LXX.Jdt.13.6.)]
8 in plural, poles from which the ancilia were suspended when carried, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.71.)]
9 plural, bars of a window, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PSI” 5.547.9 (3rd c.BC).)]
10 in Music, monochord, κατατομὴ κανόνος, title of work by [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.100K., 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Harmonica - Opera Mathematica” 1.8, 2.12; ὀκτάχορδος, πεντεκαιδεκάχορδος κ., [prev. work] 2.2, 3.1 at Title Page)]
11 cross-bar of κιθάρα, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus)]inHarm.p.207.
II metaphorically, rule, standard, κανόνι τοῦ καλοῦ μαθών [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 602; γνώμης πονηροῖς κανόσιν ἀναμετρούμενος τὸ σῶφρον [prev. author] “El.” 52; κανόνα προσάγειν 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist. Conscr.” 5)]; of the law, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 9)]; ὁ σπουδαῖος.. ὥσπερ κ. καὶ μέτρον αὐτῶν (i.e. καλῶν καὶ ἡδέων) ὤν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1113a33, compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.4.5; τὴν ἐλευθερίαν καὶ τὸ μηδέν᾽ ἔχειν δεσπότην αὑτῶν, ἃ τοῖς προτέροις Ἕλλησιν ὅροι τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἦσαν καὶ κανόνες 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.296; ὡς κανόνι τῷ πάθει πᾶν ἀγαθὸν κρίνοντες 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 3p.63U.)]; ὁ Ἐπικούρου κ. his treatise on Logic, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “fragment” 34, 4th-3rd c.BC: Damoxenus Comicus 2.15)]; ὁ τῆς φιλοσοφίας κ. [LXX (LXX.4Mac.7.21: Κανόνες, οἱ)], title of treatise by Democritus; of a philosophic principle, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 312.)]
II.2 in Art, model, standard, ὁ κ., a statue by Polyclitus which furnished a model of proportions, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 34.55)]; also his treatise on the same, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 3.122 (adnot.))]; also in Literature, Ἡρόδοτος τῆς Ἰάδος ἄριστος κ., Θουκυδίδης δὲ τῆς Ἀτθίδος [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Epistula ad Pompeium” 3.)]
II.2.c of a person, severe critic, κ. scriptorum, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Familiares” 16.17.1.)]
II.3 Grammars, general rule, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (AB 1180, 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus)]inTheod.2 p.xxi; paradigm, οἱ κ. τῶν ὀνομάτων [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Adverbiis;” 141.25.)]
II.3.b metrical scheme showing all possible forms of a verse, [Refs 7th c.AD+ (7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 14.1, +others)]
II.4 in Astronomy and Chronology, table of dates, κανόνες Χρονικοί [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 27)]; singular, κανών, ὁ, system of chronology, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 1.74.)]
II.4.b astrological table, κανόνων καὶ εἰσόδων πήξεις [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 108.19.)]
II.5 limit, boundary, explanation as τὸ μέτρον τοῦ πηδήματος, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 3.151.)]
II.5.b 'province', sphere of action, [NT (NT.2Cor.10.15.)]
II.6 assessment for taxation, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“PLond.” 1.99.5 (4th c.AD))], etc.; οἱ δεσποτικοὶ κ. the Imperial taxes, [Refs 4th c.AD+ ([prev. work] 234.9 (4th c.AD))]; ἰδιωτικὸς κ. [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“POxy.” 2124.10 (4th c.AD).)]
II.7 tariff, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (Stud.Pal. 20.143.5 (5th-6th c.AD).)]
straight rod, bar, especially to keep a thing straight:
1 in plural, staves which preserved the shape of the shield, [ἀσπίδα] δύω κανόνεσσ᾽ ἀραρυῖαν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.407, compare 8.193, 4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Orationes” 21.257a.)]
2 weaver's rod, to which alternate threads of the warp were attached, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.761, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 822 (_anapaest meter_), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.156b, 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 37.631.)]
3 ruddled line used by masons or carpenters, πύργους.. ὀρθοῖσιν ἔθεμεν κανόσιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 6; βάθρα φοίνικι κανόνι.. ἡρμοσμένα [prev. author] “HF” 945; also κ. λίθινος)]rule, straight-edge, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 12.313.113, 373.217, +others, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 56b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 10.2, “Anthologia Graeca” 11.120 (from Callicter))]; ὥστε τέκτονος παρὰ στάθμην ἰόντος ὀρθοῦται κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 474.5; κανόνα προσφέρειν 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.199; ποιῶν ὀρθὰ πάντα πρὸς κανόνα “IG” 7.3073.108 (Lebad., 2nd c.BC))]; κανόνεσσι.. μετρήσασθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.724, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1004)]; μολίβδινος κ., i.e. a flexible rule that cannot be depended on for straight measurement, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1137b31 (unless ={κῦμα}); κανόνα ποιῆσαι στρεβλόν [prev. author] “Rh.” 1354a26.)]
3.b ruler, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (Anthologia Graeca 6.63.2 (6th c.AD: Damocharis Epigrammaticus).)]
3.c metaphorically, κανόνες καὶ πήχεις ἐπῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 799; λαμπρὰ μὲν ἀκτὶς ἡλίου, κ. σαφής 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 650.)]
4 beam or tongue of the balance, στῆσαι ἐκ κανόνος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 11.334, cf. Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 811.)]
5 curtain-rod, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Chares Historicus “fragment” 4J.)]
6 in plural, reeds of a wind-organ, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.365 (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator Imp.).)]
7 bed-post, [LXX (LXX.Jdt.13.6.)]
8 in plural, poles from which the ancilia were suspended when carried, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.71.)]
9 plural, bars of a window, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PSI” 5.547.9 (3rd c.BC).)]
10 in Music, monochord, κατατομὴ κανόνος, title of work by [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.100K., 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Harmonica - Opera Mathematica” 1.8, 2.12; ὀκτάχορδος, πεντεκαιδεκάχορδος κ., [prev. work] 2.2, 3.1 at Title Page)]
11 cross-bar of κιθάρα, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus)]inHarm.p.207.
II metaphorically, rule, standard, κανόνι τοῦ καλοῦ μαθών [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 602; γνώμης πονηροῖς κανόσιν ἀναμετρούμενος τὸ σῶφρον [prev. author] “El.” 52; κανόνα προσάγειν 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist. Conscr.” 5)]; of the law, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 9)]; ὁ σπουδαῖος.. ὥσπερ κ. καὶ μέτρον αὐτῶν (i.e. καλῶν καὶ ἡδέων) ὤν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1113a33, compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.4.5; τὴν ἐλευθερίαν καὶ τὸ μηδέν᾽ ἔχειν δεσπότην αὑτῶν, ἃ τοῖς προτέροις Ἕλλησιν ὅροι τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἦσαν καὶ κανόνες 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.296; ὡς κανόνι τῷ πάθει πᾶν ἀγαθὸν κρίνοντες 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 3p.63U.)]; ὁ Ἐπικούρου κ. his treatise on Logic, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “fragment” 34, 4th-3rd c.BC: Damoxenus Comicus 2.15)]; ὁ τῆς φιλοσοφίας κ. [LXX (LXX.4Mac.7.21: Κανόνες, οἱ)], title of treatise by Democritus; of a philosophic principle, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 312.)]
II.2 in Art, model, standard, ὁ κ., a statue by Polyclitus which furnished a model of proportions, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 34.55)]; also his treatise on the same, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 3.122 (adnot.))]; also in Literature, Ἡρόδοτος τῆς Ἰάδος ἄριστος κ., Θουκυδίδης δὲ τῆς Ἀτθίδος [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Epistula ad Pompeium” 3.)]
II.2.c of a person, severe critic, κ. scriptorum, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Familiares” 16.17.1.)]
II.3 Grammars, general rule, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (AB 1180, 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus)]inTheod.2 p.xxi; paradigm, οἱ κ. τῶν ὀνομάτων [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Adverbiis;” 141.25.)]
II.3.b metrical scheme showing all possible forms of a verse, [Refs 7th c.AD+ (7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 14.1, +others)]
II.4 in Astronomy and Chronology, table of dates, κανόνες Χρονικοί [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 27)]; singular, κανών, ὁ, system of chronology, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 1.74.)]
II.4.b astrological table, κανόνων καὶ εἰσόδων πήξεις [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 108.19.)]
II.5 limit, boundary, explanation as τὸ μέτρον τοῦ πηδήματος, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 3.151.)]
II.5.b 'province', sphere of action, [NT (NT.2Cor.10.15.)]
II.6 assessment for taxation, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“PLond.” 1.99.5 (4th c.AD))], etc.; οἱ δεσποτικοὶ κ. the Imperial taxes, [Refs 4th c.AD+ ([prev. work] 234.9 (4th c.AD))]; ἰδιωτικὸς κ. [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“POxy.” 2124.10 (4th c.AD).)]
II.7 tariff, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (Stud.Pal. 20.143.5 (5th-6th c.AD).)]