Quick Definition
a calm
Strong's Definition
tranquillity
Derivation: of uncertain derivation;
KJV Usage: calm
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
γαλήνη, γαληνης, ἡ (adjective ὁ, ἡ, γαληνός calm, cheerful), calmness, stillness of the sea, a calm: Mat_8:26; Mar_4:39; Luk_8:24. (From Homer down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
γαλήνη galēnē 3x
tranquillity of the sea, a calm, Mat_8:26 ; Mar_4:39 ; Luk_8:24
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*γαλήνη , -ης , ἡ ,
a calm: Mat_8:26 , Mar_4:39 , Luk_8:24
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
γαλήνη [page 120]
The adj. is found OGIS 519 .11 (iii/A.D.) πάντων . . . ἤρεμον καὶ γαληνὸν τὸν βίον δια [γόντων . In the late papyri γαληνότης is common as an honorific title, e.g. P Oxy VII. 1042 .7 (A.D. 578) μετὰ τὴν δευτέραν ὑπατίαν τῆς αὐτῶν γαληνότητ (ος ), after the second consulship of his [? their] serenity. (Ed.).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
γαλήνη [Etym: Deriv. uncertain: perh. akin to γελάω.] "stillness of the sea, calm", Od. ; λευκὴ γ. id=Od. ; ἐλόωσι γαλήνην will sail "the calm sea", i. e. over it, id=Od. :—metaph., φρόνημα νηνέμου γαλάνας spirit of serenest "calm", Aesch. ; ἐν γαλήνηι in "calm", Soph.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
γαλήνη, -ης, ἡ,
a calm: Mat.8:26, Mrk.4:39, Luk.8:24.†
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