Strong G2965κύων

dog

Transliteration
kuōn
Pronunciation
koo'-ohn
Morphology
Greek Noun (Masculine)

Definition

A primary word; a dog (hound) (literally or figuratively): - dog.

Detailed definition

κύων, κυνός, ὁ, ἡ
(in NT masc. only), [in LXX forכֶּלֶב;]
a dog: Luk.16:21, 2Pe.2:22; metaphorically, as a word of reproach, Mat.7:6, Php.3:2, Rev.22:15.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G2965 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • dog5

First verses

  1. Matthew 7:6
    Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
  2. Luke 16:21
    And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
  3. Philippians 3:2
    Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
  4. 2 Peter 2:22
    But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
  5. Revelation 22:15
    For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
κύων [ῠ], ὁ
and ἡ, both in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, the _masculine_ more frequently, _genitive_ κῠνός, _dative_ κῠνί, _accusative_ κύνα)], vocative κύον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.423, κύων 5th-6th c.BC: Archippus Comicus 6: _plural_, _nominative_ κύνες, _genitive_ κυνῶν, _dative_ κυσί 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.272, +others)], Epic dialect κύνεσσι [Refs (1.4, _accusative_ κύνας)]:—dog, bitch, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.)]; of shepherds' dogs, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.183, 12.303)]; watch-dogs, [Refs (22.66)]; but in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] more frequently of hounds, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.338, +others; κυσὶ θηρευτῇσι 11.325; κύνε εἰδότε θήρης 10.360)]; later, when of hounds, mostly in feminine, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 8, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 18, etc.; κ. Λάκαινα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 106, S.[same place], 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 10.1, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 608a27, +others)]; Μολοττικαὶ κ. Alexis Hist. cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 12.54o d, etc.; but Ἰνδικοί 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 746a34, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.192: proverbial, κυσὶν πεινῶσιν οὐχὶ βρώσιμα)] 'not fit for a dog', [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Comica Adespota” 1205.4; χεῖρον ἐρεθίσαι γραῦν ἢ κύνα 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 802)]; κύνα δέρειν δεδαρμένην 'flog a dead horse', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 179)]; ἡ κ. κατακειμένη ἐν τῇ φάτνῃ 'dog in the manger', [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Ind.” 30, +others)]; χαλεπὸν χορίω κύνα γεῦσαι it's ill to let a dog 'taste blood', [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 10.11)]; νή or μὰ τὸν κύνα was a favourite oath of Socrates, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 22a (cf. Scholia), “Grg.” 482b)]; used familiarly at Athens, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 83)]; οἷς ἦν μέγιστος ὅρκος.. κύων, ἔπειτα χήν· θεοὺς δ᾽ ἐσίγων, of primitive men, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 231.)]
II as a word of reproach, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] of women, to denote shamelessness or audacity; applied by Helen to herself, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.344, 356; by Iris to Athena, 8.423; by Hera to Artemis, 21.481)]: of the maids in the house of Odysseus, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.338, +others)]: later, in a coarse sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1402)]; ἡ ῥαψῳδὸς κ., of the Sphinx, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 391, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 236 (Lyric poetry))]; of men, κακαὶ κ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.623; implying recklessness, 8.299, 527, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.248, 22.35)]; also of offensive persons, compared to yapping dogs, [LXX+NT (LXX.Psa.21(22).17, NT.Phil.3.2)]; κ. λαίθαργος, ={λαθροδήκτης}, metaphorically, of a person, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 885, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 555: proverbial, μὴ δῶτε τὸ ἅγιον τοῖς κ. NT.Matt.7.6.)]
II.2 metaphorically, of persons, watch-dog, guardian, τῶν σταθμῶν κ., of Agamemnon, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 896)]; δωμάτων κ., of Clytemnestra,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 607, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1023.)]
II.3 of the Cynics, ἀρέσκει τούτοις κυνῶν μεταμφιέννυσθαι βίον [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Sto.Herc.” 339.8)]: hence, Cynic philosopher, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1411a24, “Anthologia Graeca” 7.65 (Antip.), 413 ([prev. author]), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.717c, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 5.216b, epigram cited in 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 6.19, 60)], Baillet Inscriptions des tombeaux des rois [Refs (172.)]
III frequently in Mythology of the servants, agents or watchers of the gods, Διὸς πτηνὸς κύων, of the eagle, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1022, compare “Ag.” 136 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 884)]; of the griffins, Ζηνὸς ἀκραγεῖς κ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 803)]; of the Furies, μετάδρομοι.. πανουργημάτων ἄφυκτοι κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1388 (Lyric poetry), compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 924, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 383)]; Pan is the κύων of Cybele, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 96: 4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus, Περσεφόνης κύνες)], of the planets, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 196: so Comedy texts, Ἡφαίστου κ.)], of sparks, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 149.16)]; of various mythical beings, as Cerberus, κ. Ἀΐδαο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.368, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.623, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.2.2; Harpies, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.289)]; of Hecate, in Mithraic worship, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 4.16)]; of the Βάκχαι, Λύσσας κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 977 (Lyric poetry))]; Λέρνας κ., of the hydra, [Refs ([prev. author] “HF” 420 (Lyric poetry))]; of a great fish, Τρίτωνος κ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 34.)]
IV dog-fish or shark, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.96, compare 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 68, 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 161, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 566a31)]; κ. ἄγριος, κ. γαλεός and κ. κεντρίτης or κεντρίνη, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 1.373, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 1.55)]; ξιφίας κ., of the sword-fish, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Anaxippus Comicus 2.3.)]
V = {σείριος} (which see), dog-star, i.e. the hound of Orion, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.29; in full, σειρίου κυνὸς δίκην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 803, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 967; κυνὸς ψυχρὰν δύσιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 432.11; πρὸ τοῦ κυνός 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 147)]; μετὰ κυνὸς ἐπιτολήν, περὶ κ. ἐ., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 361b35, “HA” 602a26; ἐπὶ κυνί [prev. work] 600a4, Syngr. cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 35.13; ὑπὸ κύνα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 547a14, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.109; περὶ κύνα 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 3.3.3; μετὰ κύνα [prev. author] “HP” 1.9.5)]; also of the whole constellation, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 327, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 17(1).17.)]
VI the ace, the worst throw at dice, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 9.100, 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1289.63.)]
VII frenum praeputii, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Antyllus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 50.3.1)]: with pun on the proverbial cited in Pherecr. [prev. cited] (above [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 158)]: with pun on significationsee, [Refs (“Anthologia Graeca” 5.104 (Marc. argument).)]
VIII fetlock of a horse, [Refs (Hippiatr. 77.)]
IX unilateral facial paralysis, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 8.573.)]
X ={ἀπομαγδαλία}, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus cited in 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1857.19.)]
XI ξυλίνη κ., ={κυνόσβατος}, Oracle texts cited in Did cited in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 2.70c.)]
XII piece in the game of πόλεις, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 56.3 (uncertain))]. (Cf. Sanskrit śvā, genitive śúnas, Lithuanian šuõ, genitive šuñs, Latin canis, Gothic hunds (κύων), etc.)