Biblical Greek

greek #2583 - κανών, όνος, ὁ kanón (a rule)

Original Word:	κανών, όνος, ὁ
Transliteration:	kanón
Definition:	a rule, standard
Part of Speech:	Noun, Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(kan-ohn')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

line, rule.

From kane (a straight reed, i.e. Rod); a rule ("canon"), i.e. (figuratively) a standard (of faith and practice); by implication, a boundary, i.e. (figuratively) a sphere (of activity) -- line, rule.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

Strong's 2583: κανών

κανών, κανόνος, ὁ (κάννα, Hebrew קָנֶה a cane, reed; Arabic: a reed, and a spear, and a straight stick or staff (cf. Vanicek, Fremdwörter etc., p. 21)), properly, a rod or straight piece of rounded wood to which anything is fastened to keep it straight; used for various purposes (see Passow (or Liddell and Scott), under the word); a measuring rod, rule; a carpenter's line or measuring tape, Schol. on Euripides, Hippolytus, 468; hence, equivalent to τόμέτροντοῦπηδηματος (Pollux, Onom. 3, 30, 151), the measure of a leap, as in the Olympic games; accordingly in the N. T.

1. "a definitely bounded or fixed space within the limits of which one's power or influence is confined; the province assigned one; one's sphere of activity": 2 Corinthians 10:13, 15f.

2. Metaphorically, any rule or standard, a principle or law of investigating, judging, living, acting (often so in classical Greek, as τοῦκαλοῦ, Euripides, Hec. 602; ὁροιτῶνἀγαθῶνκαίκανονες, Demosthenes, pro cor., p. 324, 27): Galatians 6:16; Philippians 3:16 Rec. Cf. Credner, Zur Gesch. des Kanons (Hal., 1847), pp. 6ff; (especially Westcott, The Canon of the N. T., Appendix A; briefly in B. D. under the word Canon of Scripture; for examples of later usage see Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Greek: 2583. κανών (kanón) — 4 Occurrences

2 Corinthians 10:13 - N-GMS
GRK:μέτρον τοῦ κανόνος οὗ ἐμέρισεν
NAS: the measure of the sphere which
KJV: to the measure of the rule which
INT: measure of the area which divided

2 Corinthians 10:15 - N-AMS
GRK:κατὰ τὸν κανόνα ἡμῶν εἰς
NAS: we will be, within our sphere, enlarged
KJV: according to our rule abundantly,
INT: according to the area of us to

2 Corinthians 10:16 - N-DMS
GRK:ἐν ἀλλοτρίῳ κανόνι εἰς τὰ
NAS: in what has been accomplished in the sphere of another.
KJV: another man's line of
INT: in another's area as to things

Galatians 6:16 - N-DMS
GRK:ὅσοι τῷ κανόνι τούτῳ στοιχήσουσιν
NAS: by this rule, peace
KJV: according to this rule, peace [be] on
INT: as many as the rule by this will walk

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