Quick Definition
λίμνη, ης, ἡ n.f. a lake
Strong's Definition
probably from 3040 (through the idea of nearness of shore); a pond (large or small)
KJV Usage: lake
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ης
1.72 · Geographical Objects and Features · Bodies of Water
lake, pool a relatively small body of water either natural or artificial, surrounded by land The use of λίμνη to refer to the Lake of Galilee (also called the Lake of Gennesaret) normally poses no special difficulty, but in the expression ‘lake of fire’ (REV 20:10) there are complications, as already noted in 1.22.
1.22 · Geographical Objects and Features · Regions Below the Surface of the Earth
Collocation: λίμνη τοῦ πυρὸς (καὶ θείου)
lake of fire, hell (an idiom, literally: lake of fire (and sulfur), occurring in some slightly different forms six times in Revelation, three times with the addition of θεῖον ‘sulfur’) a place of eternal punishment and destruction In a number of languages it is impossible to translate literally ‘lake of fire,’ since water and fire seem to be so contradictory that a lake of fire is not even imaginable. It may be possible in some instances to speak of ‘a place that looks like a lake that is on fire,’ but in other languages the closest equivalent may simply be ‘a great expanse of fire.’ In some parts of the world people are fully familiar with the type of boiling magma in the cone of volcanoes, and terms for such a place may be readily adapted in speaking of ‘a lake of fire,’ since volcanic activity would seem to be the basis for this particular biblical expression.
REV 19:20 · REV 20:10 · REV 20:14 · REV 20:14 · REV 20:15 · REV 21:8
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
λίμνη, -ns, ἡ, (fr. λείβω to pour, pour out [cf. Curtius § 541]), [fr. Hom. down], a lake: Δ. Τεννησαρέτ [q, v-], Lk. v. 1; absol., of the same, Lk. v. 2; viii. 22 sq. 33; τοῦ πυρός, Rey. xix. 20; xx. 10, 14 sq.; καιομένη πυρί, Rey. xxi. 8.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
λίμνη limnē 11x
a tract of standing water; a lake, Lk. 5:1; Rev. 20:14
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
λίμνη, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX: Ps 106 (107):35 113 (114):8 (אֲגַם), Ca 7:4 (5) (בְּרֵכָה) I Mac 11:35, II Mac 12:16*;]
a lake: of the Sea of Galilee (Mt, Mk, v.s. θάλασσα), Lk 5:2 8:22, 23, 33; λ. Γεννησαρέτ (q.v.), Lk 5:1; λ. τ. πυρός, Re 19:20 20:10, 14, 15; καιομένη πυρί, Re 21:8.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
λίμνη. P Petr III. 37 (a)® (B.c. 257) παρὰ τὴν λίμνην, ““ alongside the lake,” P Amh 11. 100% (a.p. 198-211) an agreement concerning λίμνης [κα]λουμέν[η]ς ἸΤάτρω[νο]ς, P Flor I. 50%? (A.D. 268) ἔπάνω λίμνης. In an ostracon letter of A.D. 192, published by Deissmann AZ p. 186, instructions are given that certain quantities of wheat are to be delivered to “ec two ‘husbandmen of the lake ””—yewpyots λίμνης, whose | homes are in the village of Phmau (ἀπὸ ®pad: cf. Heb 1374 | οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς ᾿Ιταλίας, where Deissmann thinks the reference is to people zz Italy). See for the same ostracon Meyer Os¢r. p. 176 f., where the editor identifies this λίμνη with Birket
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
λίμνη (limnē) — lake. λίμν-η, ἡ, pool of standing water left by the sea or a river, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: hence, marshy lake, mere, distinguished from ἕλος, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Γυγαίη[Refs 5th c.BC+]; λ. τροχοειδής, at Delos, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __b also, artificial pool or basin, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. in [Refs 8th c.BC+] and other Poets, the sea, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: so in Trag. in Lyric poetry, λίμνᾳ πορφυροειδεῖ [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Μηλίδα πὰρ λ. by the Malian bay, [Refs]
II. Λίμναι, αἱ, (used without the article), a quarter of Athens (once probably marshy), near the Acropolis, in which stood the Lenaeum, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. a quarter or suburb of Sparta, [Refs 1st c.BC+]
II.3. a place in Messenia, [Refs]