What does τρυμαλιά (trymaliá) mean in the Bible?
τρυμαλιά (trymaliá): A hole worn through by friction, distinctively used for a needle's eye in Jesus's camel teaching.
Greek · G5168
τρυμαλιά
Hole
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τρυμαλιά G5168
Pronunciation trymaliá
What does τρυμαλιά (trymaliá) mean in the Bible?
τρυμαλιά (trymaliá): A hole worn through by friction, distinctively used for a needle's eye in Jesus's camel teaching.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G5168?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include eye (1).
Where does τρυμαλιά (trymaliá) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Mark 10:25. Its strongest book concentrations include Mark (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It eye 1× Mark 10:25
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Usage map
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First aligned row Mark 10:25
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
Mark 1
Source forms
τρυμαλιᾶς 1x trymalias Mark 10:25
Parsing patterns
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular 1x Mark 10:25
Evidence Summary
Greek word. A hole worn through by friction, distinctively used for a needle's eye in Jesus's camel teaching.
Strong's G5168
Lexical occurrences 1 verse Greek text appearances 2 times Word forms 1 form 1 reference Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
hole
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Mark 10:25 Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
τρυμαλιᾶς trumaliav
the eye of a needle
Read verse Luke 18:25 Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
τρυμαλιᾶς trumaliav
the eye of a needle
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 1 Aligned forms 1 Case pattern Genitive (1) Number pattern Singular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Genitive · Singular · Feminine Mark 10:25 1×
Word Origins
τρυμαλιά is built from these roots:
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Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain