Quick Definition
κομάω v. I wear the hair long
Strong's Definition
to wear tresses of hair
Derivation: from G2864 (κόμη);
KJV Usage: have long hair
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | κόμη
49.25 · Activities Involving Clothing and Adorning
to have long hair, to appear with long hair, to wear long hair to wear long hair as part of one’s attire In a number of languages it may be necessary to translate κομάω as ‘to let one’s hair grow long’ or ‘not to cut one’s hair.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κομάω, -ῶ ; (κόμη) ; to let the hair grow, have long hair, [ef. κόμη fin.]: 1 Co. xi.14 sq. (In Grk. writ. fr. Hom. down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κομάω komaō 2x
to have long hair, wear the hair long, 1 Cor. 11:14, 15*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* κομάω, -ῶ
(< κόμη),
to wear long hair: I Co 11:14, 15.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
κομάω. An interesting illustration of this verb, which in Bibl. Greek is confined to 1 Cor 111*f, is afforded by BGU I. 161% (A.D. 159-160) (= Se/ectzons, p. 84), where a charge is brought against a priest of ‘‘letting his hair grow too long and of wearing woollen garments”—®s κομῶντος [κ]αὶ χρω[μ]ένου épeats ἐσθήσεσι : cf. Herod. ii. 36f.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
κομάω (komaō) — be long-haired. κομάω, Ionic dialect κομ-έω, (κόμη) let the hair grow long, Ἄβαντες ὄπιθεν κομόωντες [Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὰ ἐπὶ δεξιὰ τῶν κεφαλέων κ.[Refs 5th c.BC+]; μὴ φθονεῖθ᾽ ἡμῖν (i.e. τοῖς ἱππεῦσι) κομῶσι [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἔνορκον ἂν ποιησαίμην μὴ πρότερον κομήσειν (in token of a vow) πρίν.. [NT+5th c.BC+]
2. plume oneself, give oneself airs, τοιοῦτος ἀνὴρ ὢν ποιητὴς οὐ κομῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὗτος ἐπὶ τυραννίδι ἐκόμησε aimed at the monarchy, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ τῷ κομᾷ; on what do you plume yourself? [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπ᾽ Ἠρίννῃ κ., of her lover, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II. of horses, χρυσέῃσιν ἐθείρῃσιν κομόωντε [Refs 8th c.BC+]
III. of the hair itself, to be long, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]
IV. metaphorically, of trees, plants, etc., [οὖθαρ ἀρούρης] μέλλεν ἄφαρ ταναοῖσι κομήσειν ἀσταχύεσσιν soon were the fields to wave with long ears, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
V. ἀστέρες κομόωντες, ={κομῆται}, [Refs 4th c.BC+]