κώμη

κώμη — kṓmē

κώμη, κόμης, ἡ (akin to κεῖμαι, κοιμάω, properly, the common sleeping-place to which laborers in the fields return; Curtius, § 45 (related is English home)) (from Hesiod, Herodotus down), a village: Mat 9:35; Mat 10:11; Mar 11:2; Luk 5:17; Luk 9:52 (here Tdf. πόλιν), and often in the Synoptative Gospels; Joh 11:1; Joh 11:30; with the name of the city near which the villages lie and to whose municipality they belong: Καισαρείας, Mar 8:27 (often so in the Sept. for בְּנות with the name of a city; cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, i., p. 220{a} (B. D., under the word, 7); also for חַצְרֵי and חַצְרות with the name of a city); by metonymy, the inhabitants of villages, Act 8:25; used also of a small town, as Bethsaida, Mar 8:23; Mar 8:26, cf.; Joh 1:45; of Bethlehem, Joh 7:42; for עִיר, Jos 10:39; Jos 15:9 (Complutensian LXX); Isa 42:11. (B. D., under the word Villages.)