A hamlet (as if laid down)
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Kome means a village or small town, a local settlement smaller than a major city. In the New Testament it often appears in travel and ministry scenes where Jesus or His messengers move through ordinary communities.
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Kome means a village or small town, a local settlement smaller than a major city. In the New Testament it often appears in travel and ministry scenes where Jesus or His messengers move through ordinary communities.
The BSB source-word alignment has 27 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include village (13), villages (8), a village (2), [the] villages (1), from village to village (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 9:35. Its strongest book concentrations include Luke (12), Mark (7), Matthew (4), John (3).
Kome means a village or small town, a local settlement smaller than a major city. In the New Testament it often appears in travel and ministry scenes where Jesus or His messengers move through ordinary communities. Jesus teaches in villages, sends disciples into towns and villages, enters a village where Martha welcomes Him, and is identified in relation to Bethlehem, David's village.
Bethany is called the village of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. In Acts, the apostles preach the gospel in Samaritan villages. Kome therefore helps readers see that the kingdom of God is not limited to temple courts, cities, or famous centers. The gospel moves through small places, households, roads, and local networks where real people live, welcome, resist, listen, and are healed.
Kome names villages or small towns. It places teaching, healing, hospitality, messianic expectation, grief, and Samaritan mission in ordinary local communities.
Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness.
Matthew summarizes Jesus moving through towns and villages with teaching, kingdom preaching, and healing.
And He was amazed at their unbelief. And He went around from village to village, teaching the people.
Mark shows Jesus continuing to teach from village to village despite unbelief in His hometown.
As they traveled along, Jesus entered a village where a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home.
Luke introduces the village where Martha welcomes Jesus into her home.
Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
John connects Bethlehem as David's village with messianic expectation.
At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
Bethany is identified as the village of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus.
And after Peter and John had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many of the Samaritan villages.
Acts shows apostolic witness spreading through many Samaritan villages.
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Greek word. a hamlet (as if laid down)
a village or country town, prop, as opposite to a walled city: Mat.14:15, Mrk.6:6, al.; πόλεις καὶ κ., Mat.9:35, al.; with the name added, Βηθλεέμ, Jhn.7:42; Βηθανΐα, Jhn.11:1; with the name of the district, τὰς κ. Καισαρίας, Mrk.8:27; Σαμαρειτῶν, Luk.9:52, Act.8:25
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How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 3 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
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Kome keeps New Testament ministry grounded in ordinary communities. Jesus goes through villages teaching and healing. He continues from village to village even where unbelief has been exposed. A village can become the setting of hospitality, as with Martha, or grief and resurrection hope, as with Bethany. Bethlehem is named as David's village when people debate the Messiah.
In Acts, Samaritan villages receive apostolic preaching. The word therefore resists a ministry vision that only counts the visible center. Scripture's witness moves through roads, homes, villages, and local relationships. Kome invites shepherds and teachers to value small places as genuine fields for the word of God, without romanticizing them or ignoring their unbelief, needs, and tensions.
Matt.9.35
Kome is a noun for a village or smaller settlement. It is distinct from polis, city, though the two often appear together to describe the reach of ministry.
Scripture often shows God working through small places: Bethlehem, villages around Galilee, Samaritan settlements, and homes along the road. Kome fits that canonical pattern by showing ordinary communities as real theaters of teaching, welcome, mission, and conflict.