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N1904Τοιγαροῦν καὶ ἡμεῖς τοσοῦτον ἔχοντες περικείμενον ἡμῖν νέφος μαρτύρων, ὄγκον ἀποθέμενοι πάντα καὶ τὴν εὐπερίστατον ἁμαρτίαν, δι᾽ ὑπομονῆς τρέχωμεν τὸν προκείμενον ἡμῖν ἀγῶνα

BSAThereforetoigaroun [consequently, as a result] alsokai we ourselvesegō such a greattosoutos [large, abundant] havingechō encompassingperikeimai [encircled, compassed about] usegō a cloudnephos of witnesses,martus [those who have given testimony, martyrs] weightogkos [weight, hindrance] having laid asideapotithēmi [lay aside, cast away] everypas andkai theho easily entanglingeuperistatos [besets, surrounds] sin,hamartia [transgression, missing the mark] withdia endurancehupomonē [patience, perseverance] may runtrechō [walk hastily, persevere] theho lying beforeprokeimai [laid before, proposed] usegō raceagōn [contest, struggle]

Word
Listen & take awayHebrews 12
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Hebrews 12:1quick helps
In a sentenceThe author encourages believers to persevere in their faith, drawing strength from the examples of those who have gone before.
Who is speakingThe author of Hebrews, addressing fellow believers.
Where we areThe conclusion of a long discussion on faith, with a call to action.
The hard wordνέφος
Take awayWe are urged to shed burdens and sin to run the race of faith.
8 commentators on this verse Gill, Jamieson, Poole, Trapp & more — read them › clause subjectημεις verbἔχω The sentence as the grammar sees it Open the tree ›
How rare are these words?in the New Testament

3 of 23 occur nowhere else in the New Testament — words chosen on purpose.

Bars are logarithmic — , the commonest word in the Greek New Testament, stands 19,867 times, so a linear scale would leave everything else invisible. Click a row to open that word.

Deep Study — Hebrews 12:1

Sections marked generated are written from the data on this page rather than by a named author. Everything else — the lexicon entries, the cross references, the manuscript readings, the counts — is quoted from its source unchanged.

Context — The Call to Endurancegenerated

1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
4In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

Hebrews 12:1 presents a powerful exhortation to believers, highlighting the importance of perseverance in the Christian faith. The author draws on the examples of the faithful from the previous chapter, encouraging readers to remain steadfast in their spiritual journey. This passage serves as a reminder that believers are not alone, as they are surrounded by a 'great cloud of witnesses' who testify to the faithfulness of God throughout history.


Cross References

ReferenceText (BSB)
1Hebrews 11:2–38This is why the ancients were commended.
2Isaiah 60:8Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?
3Ezekiel 38:9–16You and all your troops, and many peoples with you will go up, advancing like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.
4Luke 16:28for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also end up in this place of torment.’
5John 3:32He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.

The Key Word νέφος, nephosgenerated

The word νέφος (nephos) means 'cloud' and can refer to a literal cloud or a metaphorical gathering of people. In this verse, it describes a multitude of witnesses who have testified to their faith in God.

This term emphasizes the supportive presence of these witnesses, portraying them as a cloud that surrounds the believers, encouraging them to continue in their race of faith.


How Translations Differ — measured against the Berean Standard Biblegenerated

The verse is rendered similarly across translations, with the Berean Standard Bible stating, 'surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses.' Other versions like the KJV and ASV also use 'compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses.'

The primary difference lies in the phrasing of the action to be taken. The BSB uses 'throw off,' while the KJV and ASV use 'lay aside,' reflecting a slight variation in the interpretation of the original Greek.


Sentence Structuregenerated

The main verb governing the verse is τρέχωμεν, may run, which is supported by several phrases. The verse begins with a participial phrase ἔχοντες, having, which describes the subject's state, followed by a noun phrase νέφος, cloud, that serves as the object of the preposition.

The structure emphasizes the call to action as a response to the surrounding witnesses, highlighting the importance of shedding burdens and sin to run the race effectively.


Septuagint Backgroundgenerated

νέφος appears in the Septuagint as a translation for various Hebrew words related to clouds, such as עָב (dark cloud) and עָנָן (cloud-mass). These references often carry connotations of divine presence or judgment.

In this context, the use of νέφος in Hebrews 12:1 connects the idea of witnesses to the broader biblical theme of God's faithfulness and the community of believers.


In plain words — the whole versegenerated

Hebrews 12:1 encourages believers to run their spiritual race with perseverance, shedding any burdens or sins that hinder them. The verse highlights the support of those who have gone before, reminding us that we are not alone in our journey of faith.


Frequently Asked Questionsgenerated

What does the 'cloud of witnesses' refer to?

The 'cloud of witnesses' refers to the faithful individuals mentioned in Hebrews 11 who have testified to their faith in God and serve as examples for believers.

Why is it important to throw off every encumbrance?

Throwing off every encumbrance is essential to run the race of faith effectively, as it allows believers to focus on their relationship with God without distractions.

What does 'the race set out for us' mean?

The 'race set out for us' represents the Christian life and the journey of faith that each believer is called to pursue, with Jesus as the ultimate example.

How can I apply this verse in my life?

You can apply this verse by identifying and removing distractions or sins that hinder your spiritual growth and by seeking to run your race with perseverance, drawing strength from the examples of faithful believers.


Reflection Questionsgenerated

  1. What burdens or distractions do I need to lay aside to run my race of faith more effectively?
  2. Who are the witnesses in my life that inspire me to persevere in my faith?
  3. How can I encourage others to shed their burdens and run with endurance?
  4. In what ways can I keep my focus on Jesus as I navigate challenges in my spiritual journey?

The early church on this verse — how the Fathers read it

Early church writers reference this verse to emphasize the importance of perseverance and the examples set by faithful believers.

Clement of RomeLetter to the Corinthians (Clement) d. c. 99
Thus the humility and godly submission of so great and illustrious men have rendered not only us, but also all the generations before us, better; even as many as have received His oracles in fear and truth.
Early Church Fathers on Hebrews 12 →
Ephrem the SyrianCOMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS c. 306–373
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses” about the weight of our life, that is, about the fact that we have ahead of us a cloud of sad afflictions, which lead many who trust in Christ and die for him to honor,
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John ChrysostomHomily on Hebrews 28 c. 347–407
"Wherefore" (he says) "we also being compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses." In many places the Scripture derives its consolation in evils from corresponding things.
Early Church Fathers on Hebrews 12 →

Commentators on this verse — 8 expositors, verse by verse

Each of these wrote on Hebrews 12:1 itself, not merely on the chapter around it.

John Gill1697–1771Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about,...., As the Israelites were encompassed with the pillar of cloud, or with the clouds of glory in the wilderness, as the Jews say; [See comments on 1

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Robert Jamieson1802–1880Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that

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Matthew Poole1624–1679Matthew Poole's Commentary on the Holy Bible

HEBREWS CHAPTER 13 An exhortation to patience and constancy enforced by the example of Christ. The benefit of God’ s chastisements. Exhortation to peace and holiness. The dispensation of the law compared with the privileges of the gospel. The danger of refusing the word from heaven. The Spirit proceeds in this chapter in his exhortation or counsel unto duties worthy of the former doctrine of Christ, and suitable to the foregoing examples, enumerated . Wherefore seeing; he introduceth it with an illative particle, toigaroun seeing all those worthies finished their course through faith, and received not the promise since made good to us, therefore is there something to be inferred. We also…

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John Trapp1601–1669Trapp's Complete Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Ver. 1. With so great a cloud] Or, cluster of witnesses, whose depositions we should hearken to, and rest in. Justin Martyr confesseth of himself, that seeing the pious lives and patient sufferings of the saints, he concluded that this was the truth they professed, and sealed with their blood. These, in things imitable, are as the cloud that led Israel; but in things unwarrantable (for in many things we fail all) as the black of the cloud, which whoso followeth with the…

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Charles John Ellicott1819–1905Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(1) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about.—Rather, Therefore let us also—since we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses—having put away all encumbrance and the sin . . . run with patient endurance the race that is set before us, looking, &c. (In so difficult a verse as this we need an exactness of translation which might not otherwise be desirable.) It is plain that the chief thought is, “Let us run our race with patient endurance, looking unto Jesus the Author . . . of our faith;” so that here again we have the thought which the writer is never weary of enforcing, the need of faith and patience for all who would inherit the promises. The connection is chiefly with…

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AdamClarkeAdam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

CHAPTER XII. Having so many incitements to holiness, patience, and perseverance, we should lay aside every hinderance, and run with patience the race that is set before us, taking our blessed Lord for our example, 1-4. These sufferings are to be considered as fatherly chastisements from God, and to be patiently submitted to on account of the benefits to be derived from them, 5-11. They should take courage and go forward, 12, 13. Directions to follow peace with all men, and to take heed that they fall not from the grace of God, 14, 15. References to the case of Esau, 16, 17. The privileges of Christians, compared with those of the Jews, by which the superior excellence of Christianity is…

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CambridgeThe Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

1–3. An exhortation to patient steadfastness1. Wherefore] The Greek word is a very strong particle of inference not found elsewhere in the N. T. except in 1 Thessalonians 4:8.seeing we also are compassed] The order of the Greek is “Let us also, seeing we are compassed with so great a cloud of witnesses … run with patience.”a cloud] A classical Greek and Latin, as well as Hebrew, metaphor for a great multitude. Thus Homer speaks of “a cloud of foot-soldiers.” We have the same metaphor in Isaiah 60:8, “who are these who fly as clouds” (Heb.). Here, as St Clemens of Alexandria says, the cloud is imagined to be “holy and translucent.”of witnesses] The word has not yet fully acquired its sense…

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Albert Barnes1798–1870Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore - In view of what has been said in the previous chapter.

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The verse in English, compared — 16 translations, and where they part company

Every translation on this page is a decision someone had to make and commit to. Read down a column and you see one translator's judgement; read across a row and you see the range the Greek actually allows. The BSB is the wording the rest of this page is measured against, so it is listed first.

Modern formal

BSBBerean Standard Bible2020

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.

WEBWorld English Bible2000

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

MSBMajority Standard Bible2022

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.

NETBNew English Translation2006

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,

Tyndale line

KJVKing James Version1611

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

ASVAmerican Standard Version1901

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

RVARevised Version, American1894

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

NWBWebster's Bible1833

Wherefore, seeing we also are encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us , and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

GNVGeneva Bible1599

Wherefore, let vs also, seeing that we are compassed with so great a cloude of witnesses, cast away euery thing that presseth downe, and the sinne that hangeth so fast on: let vs runne with patience the race that is set before vs,

Strictly literal

DBYDarby Translation1890

Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,

YLTYoung's Literal Translation1862

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

LSVLiteral Standard Version2020

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, having put off every weight, and the closely besetting sin, may we run the contest that is set before us through endurance,

ULBUnlocked Literal Bible2017

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a large cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and easily entangling sin. Let us patiently run the race that is placed before us.

From the Latin

DRADouay-Rheims (Challoner)1899

And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:

Simplified

FBVFree Bible Version2020

For that reason, since we are surrounded by such a great crowd of people who gave evidence of their trust in God, let's get rid of everything that holds us back, the seductive sins that trip us up, and let's keep on running the race placed before us.

BBEBible in Basic English1949

For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

Word by word, the decisions they made

περικείμενονperikeimai encompassing G4029 2 different renderings
compassed aboutASV KJV RVA
putLSV YLT
νέφοςnephos a cloud G3509 2 different renderings
a cloudASV BBE DBY DRA KJV LSV NWB RVA WEB YLT
cloudBSB MSB NETB ULB
ἀποθέμενοιapotithēmi having laid aside G659 3 different renderings
lay asideASV KJV NWB RVA ULB WEB
having put offLSV YLT
cast awayGNV
πάνταpas every G3956 2 different renderings
everyASV BBE BSB DBY DRA KJV LSV MSB NETB NWB RVA ULB WEB YLT
everythingFBV
εὐπερίστατονeuperistatos easily entangling G2139 2 different renderings
surroundsDRA
easily entanglingULB
ἁμαρτίαν,hamartia sin, G266 2 different renderings
sinASV BBE BSB DBY DRA KJV LSV MSB NETB NWB RVA ULB WEB YLT
sinsFBV

Counted from the translations carried on this site, not from a survey of every English Bible. A rendering shared by many versions is usually inherited rather than independently arrived at — the Tyndale line in particular runs through most of them.


The sentence as the grammar sees it — from the Nestle 1904 treebank

This is not our own analysis: it is the scholarly syntax tree for the verse, showing how the clause actually holds together.

clauseΤοιγαροῦνThereforeclausenoun phrase · subjectκαὶalsoἡμεῖςweclause · adverbialverbἔχοντεςhavingnoun phrase · objectτοσοῦτονsuch a greatnoun phraseadjective phraseclauseverbπερικείμενονencompassingadverbialἡμῖνusnoun phraseνέφοςa cloudμαρτύρωνof witnessesclause · adverbialverbἀποθέμενοιhaving laid asidenoun phrase · objectnoun phraseὄγκονweightπάνταeveryκαὶandnoun phraseτὴνthenoun phraseεὐπερίστατονeasily entanglingἁμαρτίανsinprepositional phrase · adverbialδι’withὑπομονῆςenduranceverbτρέχωμενshould runnoun phrase · objectτὸνthenoun phraseadjective phraseclauseverbπροκείμενονlying beforeadverbialἡμῖνusἀγῶναraceclause · adverbialverbἀφορῶντεςlookingprepositional phrase · adverbialεἰςtonoun phrasenoun phrasenoun phraseτὸνthenoun phrasenoun phraseτῆςof [our]πίστεωςfaithnoun phraseἀρχηγὸνfounderκαὶandτελειωτὴνperfecterἸησοῦνJesusclauseclausesubjectὃςwhoprepositional phrase · adverbialἀντὶin view ofnoun phraseτῆςthenoun phraseadjective phraseclauseverbπροκειμένηςlying beforeadverbialαὐτῷHimχαρᾶςjoyverbὑπέμεινενenduredobjectσταυρὸν[the] crossclause · adverbialobjectαἰσχύνης[its] shameverbκαταφρονήσαςhaving despisedτεandclauseprepositional phrase · adverbialἐνatnoun phraseδεξιᾷright handnoun phraseτοῦof thenoun phraseθρόνουthronenoun phraseτοῦ-Θεοῦof Godverbκεκάθικενsat down

Boxes are the grammarian's groupings — clause, noun phrase, prepositional phrase.


The earliest translations — Latin and Syriac

Every translation is an argument about meaning made by someone who had to commit to one. These two were made while the Greek was still a living language, and they are the oldest opinions we have about what this verse says.

Latin VulgateAD 382–405

Ideoque et nos tantam habentes impositam nubem testium, deponentes omne pondus, et circumstans nos peccatum, per patientiam curramus ad propositum nobis certamen :

Jerome revised the Old Latin against the Greek from AD 382; the Latin west read this text for a thousand years.

Syriac Peshittaby AD 400

ܡܛܠ ܗܢܐ ܐܦ ܚܢܢ ܕܐܝܬ ܠܢ ܗܠܝܢ ܟܠܗܘܢ ܣܗܕܐ ܕܐܝܟ ܥܢܢܐ ܚܕܝܪܝܢ ܠܢ ܢܫܕܐ ܡܢܢ ܟܠ ܝܘܩܪܝܢ ܐܦ ܚܛܝܬܐ ܕܒܟܠܙܒܢ ܡܛܝܒܐ ܗܝ ܠܢ ܘܒܡܣܝܒܪܢܘܬܐ ܢܪܗܛܝܘܗܝ ܠܐܓܘܢܐ ܗܢܐ ܕܣܝܡ ܠܢ

The Bible of the Syriac-speaking church, in the language nearest to the Aramaic Jesus spoke.

Shown verse by verse rather than word by word: aligning a Greek word to its Latin or Syriac counterpart automatically would be guesswork, and a wrong alignment is worse than none.


The Greek editions compared — what the manuscripts actually say

Eight printed editions of the Greek New Testament, side by side. Where they agree the wording is settled; where a word is missing from an edition it is marked, so you can see the difference rather than take it on trust.

Nestle-Aland 28th edition2012 · Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft

Τοιγαροῦν καὶ ἡμεῖς τοσοῦτον ἔχοντες περικείμενον ἡμῖν νέφος μαρτύρων, ὄγκον ἀποθέμενοι πάντα καὶ τὴν εὐπερίστατον ἁμαρτίαν, δι᾽ ὑπομονῆς τρέχωμεν τὸν προκείμενον ἡμῖν ἀγῶνα

The standard critical text of the New Testament.

Nestle-Aland 27th edition1993 · Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft

Τοιγαροῦν καὶ ἡμεῖς τοσοῦτον ἔχοντες περικείμενον ἡμῖν νέφος μαρτύρων, ὄγκον ἀποθέμενοι πάντα καὶ τὴν εὐπερίστατον ἁμαρτίαν, δι᾽ ὑπομονῆς τρέχωμεν τὸν προκείμενον ἡμῖν ἀγῶνα

The previous edition, still widely cited.

SBL Greek New Testament2010 · Michael Holmes

Τοιγαροῦν καὶ ἡμεῖς τοσοῦτον ἔχοντες περικείμενον ἡμῖν νέφος μαρτύρων, ὄγκον ἀποθέμενοι πάντα καὶ τὴν εὐπερίστατον ἁμαρτίαν, δι᾽ ὑπομονῆς τρέχωμεν τὸν προκείμενον ἡμῖν ἀγῶνα

The Society of Biblical Literature edition, freely licensed.

Westcott–Hort1881 · Westcott and Hort

Τοιγαροῦν καὶ ἡμεῖς τοσοῦτον ἔχοντες περικείμενον ἡμῖν νέφος μαρτύρων, ὄγκον ἀποθέμενοι πάντα καὶ τὴν εὐπερίστατον ἁμαρτίαν, δι᾽ ὑπομονῆς τρέχωμεν τὸν προκείμενον ἡμῖν ἀγῶνα

The edition that turned scholarship toward the earliest manuscripts.

Tregelles1857–1879 · Samuel Prideaux Tregelles

Τοιγαροῦν καὶ ἡμεῖς τοσοῦτον ἔχοντες περικείμενον ἡμῖν νέφος μαρτύρων, ὄγκον ἀποθέμενοι πάντα καὶ τὴν εὐπερίστατον ἁμαρτίαν, δι᾽ ὑπομονῆς τρέχωμεν τὸν προκείμενον ἡμῖν ἀγῶνα

An independent critical text built from the oldest witnesses then known.

Tyndale House Greek NT2017 · Tyndale House, Cambridge

Τοιγαροῦν καὶ ἡμεῖς τοσοῦτον ἔχοντες περικείμενον ἡμῖν νέφος μαρτύρων, ὄγκον ἀποθέμενοι πάντα καὶ τὴν εὐπερίστατον ἁμαρτίαν, δι᾽ ὑπομονῆς τρέχωμεν τὸν προκείμενον ἡμῖν ἀγῶνα

A recent critical edition following documentary evidence closely.

Byzantine majority text2018 · Robinson–Pierpont

Τοιγαροῦν καὶ ἡμεῖς τοσοῦτον ἔχοντες περικείμενον ἡμῖν νέφος μαρτύρων, ὄγκον ἀποθέμενοι πάντα καὶ τὴν εὐπερίστατον ἁμαρτίαν, δι᾽ ὑπομονῆς τρέχωμεν τὸν προκείμενον ἡμῖν ἀγῶνα

The reading of the majority of surviving manuscripts.

Textus Receptus1550/1894 lineage

Τοιγαροῦν καὶ ἡμεῖς τοσοῦτον ἔχοντες περικείμενον ἡμῖν νέφος μαρτύρων, ὄγκον ἀποθέμενοι πάντα καὶ τὴν εὐπερίστατον ἁμαρτίαν, δι᾽ ὑπομονῆς τρέχωμεν τὸν προκείμενον ἡμῖν ἀγῶνα

The printed tradition behind the King James Version.

Every witness on this verse all agree
Critical editions
Nestle-Aland 28th edition2012Nestle-Aland 27th edition1993SBL Greek New Testament2010Westcott–Hort1881Tregelles1857–1879Tyndale House Greek NT2017
Byzantine / Majority
Byzantine majority text2018
Received Text
Textus Receptus1550/1894

A witness that read differently would show its variant word here, marked.

Word by word, across the editions

Every edition agrees. All 8 printed editions — Nestle-Aland 28, Nestle-Aland 27, SBLGNT, Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Tyndale House 2017, Textus Receptus (KJV), Byzantine majority — carry every word of this verse, in the same order, with no difference that any translator would render differently.


The map of this verse — what each word keeps company with

This is a map of two things, both counted rather than judged. Company kept: which words stand within three words of each of these, anywhere in the Greek New Testament — the thicker the line, the more often the pair meet compared with chance. Built from: the words a word is made out of, taken from its own Strong’s entry. It is not a map of meaning: nothing here claims two words mean the same thing. Click any circle to see the numbers behind it.

Hebrews 12:1τοιγαροῦνThereforeThereforeτοιγαροῦνκαίalsoalsoκαίημειςwe ourselvewe ourselvesημειςτοσοῦτοςsuch a greasuch a greatτοσοῦτοςἔχωhavinghavingἔχωπερίκειμαιencompassinencompassingπερίκειμαιημινususημιννέφοςa clouda cloudνέφοςμάρτυςof witnesseof witnesses,μάρτυςὄγκοςweightweightὄγκοςἀποτίθημιhaving laidhaving laid asiἀποτίθημιπᾶςeveryeveryπᾶςκαίandandκαίthetheεὐπερίστατοςeasily entaeasily entangliεὐπερίστατοςἁμαρτίαsin,sin,ἁμαρτίαδιάwithwithδιάὑπομονήenduranceenduranceὑπομονήτρέχωmay runmay runτρέχωthetheπρόκειμαιlying beforlying beforeπρόκειμαιημινususημινἀγώνraceraceἀγώνπερίPrep. abouPrep. about, coπερίArticle thArticle theἀπόPrep. fromPrep. from, awaἀπόεὖAdv well, Adv well, well εὖἁμαρτάνωv. I sinv. I sinἁμαρτάνωὑπομένωv. I remaiv. I remain behὑπομένωπρόPrep. befoPrep. beforeπρόἄγωv. I leadv. I leadἄγωἀγκάληn.f. an arn.f. an armἀγκάληθρίξn.f. a hain.f. a hairθρίξδρόμοςn.m. a runn.m. a running,δρόμοςκρείττωνAdj strongAdj stronger, mκρείττωνχορτάζωv. I feed,v. I feed, satiχορτάζωχρείαn.f. need,n.f. need, neceχρείακακῶςAdv badly,Adv badly, evilκακῶςεἰCond. ifCond. ifεἰτρεῖςAdj threeAdj threeτρεῖςπιστόςAdj trustwAdj trustworthyπιστός
meets it a little oftener than chancemeets it far oftener than chancebuilt from the same roottwo words of the verse share ita word of this versea related word

Lexicons — every word in Hebrews 12:1

One dossier per word, with every reference work grouped by kind — Greek lexicons, morphology, Bible dictionaries, topical chains and the English of the translators themselves. The verse sits at the head of each block with the word under study lit, so you never lose your place. The panel above gives the short answer; this is the long one, and it is the part of the page worth indexing.

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Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
Τοιγαροῦνtoigaroun Therefore G5105 Particle
2× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Hebrews than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means therefore or consequently, used to show a conclusion. It is used in the New Testament, such as in 1 Thessalonians and Hebrews, to show a result of something. It is like saying 'so therefore' in English.
Amplified meaning
consequently, as a result
Tyndale gloss
therefore
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word τοιγαροῦν (toigaroun) is an inferential particle meaning 'therefore' or 'consequently.' It is built from the enclitic τοι and οὖν, and is used to introduce conclusions with emphasis. It appears in the New Testament in 1 Thessalonians 4:8 and Hebrews 12:1, where it serves to connect thoughts logically.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

τοι-γαρ-οῦν

an inferential particle,

[in LXX: Jb 22:10 24:22 (עַל־כֵּך), Si 41:16, al. ;]

wherefore then, so therefore: I Th 4:8, He 12:1 (Hdt., Plat., al.).†

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

τοιγαροῦν, (fr. the enclitic τοί or τῷ, yap, and οὖν, Germ. doch denn nun; cf. Delitzsch on Heb. xii. 1; [Ellicott on 1 Th. iv. 87), a particle introducing a conclusion with some special emphasis or formality, and generally occupying the first place in the sentence, wherefore then, for which reason, therefore, consequently: 1 ΤῊ. ἵν. 8; Heb. xii. 1, (for 13-5», Job xxii. 10; xxiv.22; 4 Macc. i. 34; vi. 28 var.; xiii.15; Soph., Xen., Plato, 544.) ; cf. Klotz ad Devar. ii. 2 p. 738.7 tolye in καίτοιγε, see γέ, 3 f.

Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

τοιγαροῦν, “accordingly,” ἐς wherefore” (1 Thess 48, Heb 121): P Tebt IL. 3151} (ii/A.p.) τοιγαροῦν [μη]δὲν ταραχ[θ]ῃς, ἐγὼ γάρ [σ]ε [ἀἸπαλλάξω, “do not be disturbed on this account, as I will get you οὔτ᾽ (Edd.), P Giss I. 37 (A.D. 117) (= Chrest. I. p. 577) χαίροντες τοιγαροῦν θύοντες τὰς ἑστίας ἀνάπτωμεν, and P Oxy I. 1247 (a schoolboy’s exercise—iii/A.D.) πέμψας τοιγαροῦν ὁ Αδραστος εἰς [Δε]λφοὺς ἐπυνθάνετο τὴν αἰτίαν, ** Adrastus therefore sent to Delphi and inquired the cause” (Edd.).

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

τοιγαροῦν (toigaroun) — therefore.

τοιγάρ,

an inferential Particle, therefore, accordingly, well then, κέλεαί με.. μυθήσασθαι μῆνιν Ἀπόλλωνος.. · τοιγὰρ ἐγὼν ἐρέω [Refs 8th c.BC+]; rare in Comedy texts [Refs 5th c.BC+]; never in Attic dialect Prose.

II. strengthened by other Particles, τοιγαροῦν, Ionic dialect τοιγαρῶν, for that very reason, therefore, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also in Poets, as [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.2. τοιγάρτοι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; rare in Poets, [Refs 8th c.BC+] and τοι, τοιγὰρ ἐγώ τοι [Refs 8th c.BC+] —These forms must begin the sentence, except in late Gr., where τοιγαροῦν may be postponed, as [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

τοιγαροῦν

toigaroun

from 5104 and 1063 and 3767; truly for then, i.e.

consequently:--there-(where-)fore.

see GREEK for 5104

see GREEK for 1063

see GREEK for 3767

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

τοιγαροῦν

Disj.prt.

consequently, therefore

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

τοιγαροῦν toigaroun 2x

well then, so then, wherefore, for that reason, 1 Thess. 4:8; Heb. 12:1*

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Particle — Particle
particle — a small word colouring the clause; it does not decline.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

PRT PaRTicle, disjunctive particle

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
50%so then
so then50% · 1×therefore50% · 1×

2 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 2 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
τοιγαροῦνTherefore
what comes after →
Article the
ἀθετέωI annul
καίand, even, also, nam
ἐγώ

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceτοιγαροῦν · 2× in the New Testament
1 Thessalonians Hebrews
Across the New Testament2 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria Josephus Clement of Rome
Philo of AlexandriaAllegorical Interpretation of Genesis 3.219c. AD 40

λυπείσθω τοιγαροῦν αἴσθησις, ἀρετὴ δ’ αἰεὶ χαιρέτω·

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 2.325c. AD 75–95

τοιγαροῦν ἐν τῇ εἰσβολῇ τῇ πρὸς θάλατταν τοῦ ὄρους τοὺς Ἑβραίους ἀπέφραττον τῷ στρατοπέδῳ κατὰ στόμα τοῦτο ἱδρυσάμενοι, ὅπως τὴν εἰς τὸ πεδίον ἔξοδον ὦσιν αὐτοὺς ἀφῃρημένοι.

Clement of RomeFirst Clement 57.4c. AD 96

ἐπειδὴ ἐκάλουν καὶ οὐχ ὑπηκούσατε, καὶ ἐξέτεινον λόγους καὶ οὐ προσείχετε, ἀλλὰ ἀκύρους ἐποιεῖτε τὰς ἐμὰς βουλάς, τοῖς δὲ ἐμοῖς ἐλέγχοις ἠπειθήσατε: τοιγαροῦν κἀγὼ τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ ἀπωλείᾳ ἐπιγελάσομαι, καταχαροῦμαι δὲ ἡνίκα ἂν ἔρχηται ὑμῖν ὄλεθρος καὶ ὡς…

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4th c. AD 3rd c. AD 2nd c. AD 6th c. AD
BGU 1 140Alexandria (?)AD 119

ἀφορμὰς διʼ ὧν τὸ αὐστηρότερον ὑπὸ τῶν πρὸ ἐμοῦ Αὐτοκρατόρων σταθὲν φιλανθρωπότερον ἑρμηνεύω. ὅνπερ τοιγαροῦν τρόπον οὔκ εἰσιν νόμιμοι κληρονόμοι τῶν ἑαυτῶν πατέρων οἱ τῷ τῆς στρατείας χρόνῳ ἀναλημφθέντες,

P.Tebt. 2 315Tebtynis (Arsinoites)AD 101–AD 200

χειρισμῶν τῶν ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς εἰσεληλυθέναι καὶ μέλλειν καὶ εἰς τὴν μερίδα σου ἔρχεσθαι. τοιγαροῦν μηδὲν ταραχθῇς, ἐγὼ γάρ σε ἀπαλλάξω. ἐὰν μὲν οὖν σχολὴν ἄγῃς γράψας σου τὰ

P.Giss. 1 40Apollonopolites HeptakomiasAD 215

καὶ τοὺς λογισμοὺς … θεοῖς τοῖς ἀθανάτοις εὐχαριστήσαιμι, ὅτι τῆς τοιαύτης … ησμε συνετήρησαν. τοιγαροῦν νομίζω οὕτω με … ως δύνασθαι τῇ μεγαλειότητι αὐτῶν τὸ ἱκανὸν ποιεῖν … ὁσάκις

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
καὶkai also G2532 Conjunction
8,978× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Hebrews as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
And or also, a connecting word used to join ideas or words, like in Matthew 2:18 and Hebrews 1:1.
Tyndale gloss
and
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

καί (kai) is a conjunction meaning 'and,' used to connect words, phrases, and clauses. It serves various functions, including copulative and adjunctive uses, and can express cumulative ideas like 'also' or 'even.' The New Testament frequently employs it to link terms and sentences, as seen in verses like Matthew 2:18 and John 10:3. Abbott-Smith notes its use in both simple and complex structures, while Thayer emphasizes its role as the most common particle in the New Testament.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

καί,

conj.,

and.

Copulative.

Connecting single words;

in general: Mt 2:18 16:1, Mk 2:15, Lk 8:15, He 1:1, al. mult.; repeated before each of the terms in a series, Mt 23:23, Lk 14:21, Ro 7:12 9:4, al.;

connecting numerals (WM, § 37, 4): Jo 2:20, Ac 13:20;

joining terms which are not mutually exclusive, as the part with the whole: Mt 8:33 26:59, Mk 16:17,

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

καί, a conj., and; the most freq. by far of all the particles in the N. T. [On its uses see W. § 53, 3sqq.; B. 361 (310) sqq., and ef. Ellicott on Phil. iv. 12; on the difference between it and τέ see 8. v. τέ ad init. ] I. It serves as a copulative i.e. to connect (Lat. et, atque, Germ. und) ; 1. it connects single words or terms: a. univ., as of Φαρισαῖοι καὶ Σαδδουκαῖοι, Mt. xvi. 1; ὁ θεὸς καὶ πατήρ, he who is God and Father (see θεός, 3); ἐν καρδίᾳ καλῇ καὶ ἀγαθῇ, Lk. viii. 15; πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως, ΗΘ}. 1. 1; it is repeated before single terms, to each of which its own force and weight is thus given: ἡ υἱοθεσία καὶ ἡ δόξα καὶ ai διαθῆκαι καὶ ἡ νομοθεσία καὶ ἡ λατρεία καὶ αἱ ἐπαγγελίαι, Ro. ix. 4 ; ἁγία καὶ δικαία καὶ ἀγαθή, Ro. vii. 12; add, Mt. xxiii. 23; Lk. xiv. 21; Jn. xvi. 8; Acts xv. 20, 29; xxi. 25; Heb. ix. 10; Rey. v. 12; xviii. 12 sq.; ef. W. 519 sq. (484). b. it…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

και. In LAE p. 129 ff. Deissmann discusses the thoroughly popular character of the Johannine style with its short paratactic sentences, introduced by kal. . . καί. To illustrate this, he cites amongst other exx. a Dream from the Serapeum, P Par 51 (B.C. 160) (= Selections, p. 18 ff. : see especially the amended readings in Archiv vi. p. 204), which runs—** ὦμ[ην] βατί -- δ)ίζειν pe [ἀπ]ὸ λειβὸς ἕως ἀ[ πηλι]ώτου, καὶ ἀναπίπτομαι ἐπ᾿ ἄχυρον" καὶ [ἄν]θρωπ[ος9] ἀπὸ λιβός μου, ἐχόμενός μου’ ἀναπίπτει καὶ αὐτός, καὶ ὥσπερ κεκλειμμ[évot] μου ἦσαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου, καὶ ἐξαί[φνης] ἀνύγω τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς pov, καὶ ὁρῶ kTA., “ I dreamed that I was going from West to East, and I lie down upon chaff. And there | αὐτὸ (deleted in the original) Σεμφθεῖ. | ἐκ καινῆς ἐν Σομολ(ῶ)…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

καί (kai) — and.

καί,

conjunction, copulative, joining words and sentences,

__A and; also adverb, even, also, just, frequently expressing emphatic assertion or assent, corresponding as positive to the negative οὐ (μή) or οὐδέ (μηδέ). copulative, and,

__A.I joining words or sentences to those preceding, ἦ, καὶ κυανέῃσιν ἐπ᾽ ὀφρύσινεῦσε Κρονίων [Refs 8th c.BC+]: repeated with two or more Nouns, αἱ δὲ ἔλαφοι κ. δορκάδες κ. οἱ ἄγριοι οἶες κ. οἱ ὄνοι οἱ ἄγριοι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; joining only the last pair, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὁ ὄχλος πλείων κ. πλείων ἐπέρρει more and more, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; to add epithets after πολύς, πολλὰ κ. ἐσθλά [Refs 8th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

καί

kai

apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also

a cumulative force; and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in

connection (or composition) with other particles or small words:--and,

also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when,

yet.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

καί

Cj.

and, even, also, namely

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

καί kai 9x

(1) and, Mt. 2:2, 3, 11; 4:22; (2) καί ... καί, both ... and; (3) as a cumulative particle, also, too, Mt. 5:39; Jn. 8:19; 1 Cor. 11:6; (4) emphatic, even, also, Mt. 10:30; 1 Cor. 2:10; in NT adversative, but, Mt. 11:19; also introductory of the apodosis of a sentence, Gal. 3:28; Jas. 2:4

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Conj — Conjunction
conjunction — it joins clauses, and never changes form.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

CONJ CONJunction or conjunctive particle

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ol'-so: In the Greek kai, when it is equivalent to "also" or "even," is always placed before the word or phrase which it is intended to emphasize (e.g. Ac 12:3; 1 Joh 4:21). Mt 6:14 should therefore read, "Your heavenly Father will forgive you also"; Lu 6:13, "Whom also he named apostles"; Heb 8:6, "The mediator of a better covenant also"; and 1Th 4:14, `If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also (we believe that) those who are fallen asleep in Jesus, God will bring with Him.'

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
89%and
and89% · 8448×also8% · 714×other renderings2% · 191×other renderings1% · 124×

9,477 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 42 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial16%subject13%object10%predicate3%verb2%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 8,978 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
αὐτός
ἐνἐπίπρός
σύ
χάριςgrace, favor, kiπρόςπατήρfather, Father,
ἐγώ
πατήρfather, Father, πρόςθεόςGod, a god
εἰμίI am, exist
αὐτόςArticle theἐγώ
θεόςGod, a god
Article theθέλημαwill, wish, desiδέbut, on the othe
καίalso8978×
what comes after →
Article the
ἀδελφόςa brotherπατήρfather, Father, μήτηρa mother
λέγωI say, speak
αὐτόςArticle theπρός
οὐNeg
εἰμίI am, existμήNegδύναμαιI am powerful, a
ὁράωI see, look upon, ex
Article theαὐτόςἀνήρa male human bei
ἐν
Article theπᾶςall, the whole, ὅλοςall, the whole,

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceκαί · 8,978× in the New Testament
Luke Matthew Revelation Acts Mark John 1 Corinthians Romans Hebrews 2 Corinthians Ephesians 1 John

3 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome Ignatius of Antioch
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 1c. AD 40

Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.argc. AD 75–95

ἡ τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.1c. AD 100

Χαίρετε, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἐν εἰρήνῃ.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 1st c. AD 6th c. AD
P.Stras. 2 89Pathyris100 BC

r βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν καὶ κανηφόρου τῶν

P.Adl. 11Pathyris99 BC

1 ἔτους ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν καὶ κανηφόρου τῶν

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
ἡμεῖςegō we ourselves G3165 Personal pronoun · first person · nominative · plural
1,872× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
In plain English
Tyndale gloss
I/we
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἐγώ, gen, etc., ἐμοῦ, ἐμοί, ἐμέ (enclitic μου, μοι, με), pl. ἡμεῖς, -ῶν, -ῖν, -ᾶς,

pers. pron.

I.

The nom. is usually emphatic, when expressed as subjc, as in Mt 3:11, Mk 1:8, Lk 3:16, al. But often there is no apparent emphasis, as Mt 10:16, Jo 10:17; ἰδοὺ ἐ. (= Heb. הִנֵּנִי, cf. I Ki 3:8), Ac 9:10; ἐ. (like Heb. אֲנִי), I am, Jo 1:23 (LXX), Ac 7:32 (LXX).

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ἐγώ, gen. ἐμοῦ, enclitic pod; dat. ἐμοί, enclitic μοί; acc. ἐμέ, enclitic μέ; plur. ἡμεῖς, ete.; personal pronoun, J. 1. The nominatives ἐγώ and ἡμεῖς, when joined to a verb, generally have force and emphasis, or indicate antithesis, as Mt. iii. 11; Mk.i. 8; Lk. iii. 16 (ἐγὼ pev... ὁ δέ); Mt. iii. 14 (ἐγὼ... ἔχω, καὶ σύν ; V. 22, 28, 39, and often; ἡμεῖς, contrasted with God, Mt. vi. 12; ἡμεῖς x. of Φαρισαῖοι, Mt. ix. 14; cf. W. § 22,6. But sometimes they are used where there is no emphasis or antithesis in them, as Mt. x. 16; Jn. x. 17; and in many edd. in Mk. i. 2; Lk. vii. 27; οἵ. B. §129, 12. ἰδοὺ ἐγώ, 1397, behold me, hereamT: Acts ix.10 (1S. iii. 8). ἐγώ, like 38, Jam: Jn. i. 23; Acts vii. 32, [ef. W.585 (544); B. 125 (109)]. 2. The enclitic (and monosyllabic) gen., dat., and ace. are connected with nouns, verbs, adverbs, but not with prepositions: ἔμπροσθέν pov, Jn. i. 15; ὀπίσω…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

ἐγώ. Deissmann (ZAZ p. 134 ff.) has drawn attention to the parallels to the solemn use of the first personal pronoun in the Fourth Gospel that may be adduced from inscriptions and magical texts. Thus in an inscr. in honour of Isis from Ios, written in ii/iii A.p., the contents of which are preChristian, we find —Elows ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ τ[ύρανν]ος πάσης χόρας.. ἐγὼ νόμους ἀνθρώποις ἐθέμην . . ἐγώ εἰμι Kpdvov θυγάτηρ πρεσβυτάτη α΄. And similarly in the magical papyrus P Lond 4645 (iv/a.p.) (=I. p. 69) ἐγώ εἰμι ὃ ἀκέφαλος δαίμων . . ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ ἀλήθεια ὁ μεισῶν ἀδικήματα γείνεσθαι ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ α΄. With the construction of the phrase τί ἐμοὶ καὶ σοί ; in Jn 24 we may compare BGU IV. 1141°8 (n.c. 14) ἐδίδουν αὐτῷ διαστολὰς μηδὲν αὐτῶι καὶ ἐκείνωι εἶναι : for its meaning see Ε΄. C. Burkitt in 77:5 xiii. p- 594f., where it is rendered, ‘‘ What have I and thou to do with that ?” On the difficult…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

μέ (me) — me.

ἐγώ,

I: pronoun of the first person:—Epic dialect mostly ἐγών before vowels (so in Doric dialect, before consonants, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect ἱών [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:— strengthened ἔγωγε, I at least, for my part, indeed, for myself (more frequently in Attic dialect than in [Refs 8th c.BC+]: Doric dialect ἐγώνγα [Refs 7th c.BC+]: Boeotian dialect ἱώνγα [Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἱώνει [Refs]; ἰώγα [Refs 5th c.BC+]: Laconian dialect and Tarentum dialect ἐγώνη, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

II. oblique cases from a different root, genitive ἐμοῦ, enclitic μο; Ionic dialect and Epic dialect ἐμέο, ἐμεῦ, μευ, also ἐμέθεν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect ἔμεθεν [Refs 7th c.BC+]; Doric dialect ἐμέος, ἐμεῦς, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect ἐμοῦς [Refs 6th c.BC+] — _dative_ ἐμοί, enclitic μοι (which may be compared with Sanskrit…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἐγώ

me

a shorter (and probably originally) from of 1691; me:--I, me, my.

see GREEK for 1691

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἐγώ egō 2x

I, gen., ἐμοῦ [μου], dat., ἐμοί [μοι], acc., ἐμέ [με]

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Pron-1NP — Personal pronoun · first person · nominative · plural
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked plural.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

P-1NP Part of Speech: Personal pronoun Person: first Case: Nominative Number: Plural

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
35%us
us35% · 717×me32% · 644×mine20% · 402×we ourselves6% · 124×my2% · 45×other renderings5% · 97×

2,029 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 27 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
τοσοῦτονtosoutos such a great G5118 Demonstrative pronoun · accusative · singular · neuter
20× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Hebrews than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means so great or so much, used to describe quantity, amount, or size, as seen in Matthew 8:10 and Luke 7:9. It can also refer to time, such as in John 14:9, and is used to emphasize the magnitude of something.
Amplified meaning
large, abundant
Tyndale gloss
so great
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

τοσοῦτος is a demonstrative adjective meaning 'so great' or 'so much,' derived from the roots for 'so' and 'this.' It describes quantity, size, or number, and can refer to time as well. In the New Testament, it appears in various contexts, such as in Matthew 8:10 and John 14:9. The lexicons do not present significant disagreement regarding its meanings.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

τοσοῦτος, -αύτη, -οῦτο

(He 7:22) and (elsewhere, as usually in Attic) -οῦτον, correlat. of ὅσος, of quantity, size, number, so great, so much, pl., so many: Mt 8:10, Lk 7:9, He 12:1, Re 18:7, 16; of time, so long, χρόνος, Jo 14:9, He 4:7; pl., Lk 15:29 (ἔτη), Jo 12:37 21:11, I Co 14:10; seq. ὥστε, Mt 15:33; absol.: pl., Jo 6:9, Ga 3:4; of…

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

τοσοῦτος, -αὐτη. -ovTo (Heb. vii. 22 LT Tr WH) and -obrov, (ἴτ. τόσος and οὗτος; [4]. say lengthened fr. τόσος; cf. τηλικοῦτος, init.]), so great; with nouns: of quantity, roo. πλοῦτος. Rev. xviii. 17 (16); of internal amount, 88, 2); τόπον ἔχειν sc. τοῦ εὐαγ| πίστις, Mt. viii. 10; Lk. vii. 9; [ὅσα ἐδόξασεν ἑαυτήν, τοxx. 7. the particular place referred to is defined by | the words appended: — by a genitive, τόπ. τῆς βασάνου, σοῦτον δότε βασανισμόν. Rev. xviii. 7]; of size, νέφος, Heb. xii. 1; plur. so many: ἰχθύες, Jn. xxi. 113 σημεῖα, Jn. xii. 37; γένη φωνῶν, 1 Co. xiv. 10; ἔτη, Lk. xv. 29 [(here | A.V. these many)], (in prof. writ., esp. the Attic, we | often find τοσοῦτος καὶ τοιοῦτος and the reverse; see HeinTOTE dorf on Plat. Gorg. p. 34; Passow p. 1923"; [L. and 5. s.vv.]); foll. by ὥστε, so many as to be able, ete. [B. 244 (210)], Mt. xv. 33; of time: so long, χρόνος, [ Jn. xiv.…

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τοσοῦτος (1) of size, quantity, ‘‘so great,’’ ‘‘so large”: P Hib I. 51° (B.C. 245) τοσοῦτο yap ἔκκειται ἐγ βασιλικοῦ, “ for that is the rate published by the government ” (Edd.), P Ry] II. 967 (A.D. 117-8) τοσοῦτο τέλεσμα οὐ βαστάζει, ‘it (sc. crown-land) does not bear so great a charge” (Edd.), and in a more general sense P Amh II. 14117 (a.D. 350) ἐπιδίSwope. . . τάδε τὰ βιβλία [μο]υ τοσοῦτο μαρτυραμένη, “1 present this my petition bearing witness to the facts’ (Edd.). (2) of time, ‘‘so long”: P Lond 4255 (B.c. 168) (= I. p- 30, Selections p. 10) τοσούτου χρόνου ἐπιγεγονότος, ‘‘so long a time having elapsed,” P Tebt II. 30218 (a.p. 71-2) τ]οσούτων ἐτῶν, ‘‘for so many years,” P Oxy III. 5309 (ii/A.p.) ἐπὶ μάτην] δὲ τῶι τοῦ Ilavoiplwvos τοσοῦτον χρόνον προσκαρτερ[ῶ, ““«πὰ that I have so long been engaged with Pausirion’s business to no purpose ” (Edd.). (3) The following prepositional…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

τοσοῦτος (tosoutos) — so great.

τοσοῦτος, αύτη, οῦτο

(or τοσοῦτον, see entry near the end); Epic dialect τοσσοῦτος; Aeolic dialect τεσσοῦτος (which see); ={τόσος} in all senses, but like{τοσόσδε} with stronger demonstrative sense: [Refs 8th c.BC+] while in Trag. (not in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; by ὁπόσος, [Refs]; by ὅστις, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also by adverb ὡς, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; τ. ἐγένετο ὥστε.. [Refs 5th c.BC+]: frequently also, like{τοσόσδε}, absolutely, ἄφενος τ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of persons, so large, so tall, etc., καί σε τ. ἔθηκα [Refs 8th c.BC+]; also, so great (in rank, skill, or character), [Refs 5th c.BC+]: plural, so many, τ. ἔτεα [Refs 8th c.BC+]; [χρήματα] [Refs 8th c.BC+] so big, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοσοῦτος τὸ βάθος so deep, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also τοσοῦτος ἐν κακίᾳ (variant{εἰς κακίαν}) [Refs 5th c.BC+]of the same height, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἕτεροι or…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

τοσοῦτος

tosoutos

from tosos (so much; apparently from 3588 and 3739) and 3778

(including its variations); so vast as this, i.e. such (in quantity,

amount, number of space):--as large, so great (long, many, much),

these many.

see GREEK for 3588

see GREEK for 3739

see GREEK for 3778

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

τοσοῦτος, τοσαύτη, τοσοῦτο

Dem.pr.

so great

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

τοσοῦτος tosoutos 20x

so great, so much, Mt. 8:10; 15:33; so long, of time, Jn. 14:9; pl. so many, Mt. 15:33

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

τοσοῦτος = τόσος in all senses, but with a stronger demonstr. force, Hom., etc.; of persons, so large, so tall, καί σε τοσοῦτον ἔθηκα Il.; so great in rank, skill,or character, Soph., etc.:—in pl. so many, Hom.,etc.:—also τοσοῦτος μέγαθος so large, Hdt.; τοσοῦτος τὸ βάθος so deep, Xen.:—with numeral Advs., δὶς τ.,πολλάκις τ., etc., Thuc., etc.; ἕτερον τοσοῦτο as large again, Hdt.

neut. as Subst., so much, thus much, τοσσοῦτον ὀνήσιος Od.; τοσαῦτ᾽ ἔλεξε Aesch.; —with Preps., διὰ τοσούτου at so small a distance, Thuc.;— ἐς τοσοῦτο so far, Lat. hactenus, eatenus, Hdt., etc.;— ἐκ τ. from so far, so far off, Xen.;— ἐν τοσούτῳ in the meantime, Ar.;— ἐπὶ τοσοῦτο so far, Hdt.;— κατὰ τοσοῦτον so far, Plat.;— μέχρι τοσούτου so far, so long, Thuc.;— παρὰ τοσοῦτον κινδύνου into such imminent danger…

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Dem-ASN — Demonstrative pronoun · accusative · singular · neuter
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular neuter.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

D-ASN Part of Speech: Demonstrative pronoun Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Neuter

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
29%so much
so much29% · 6×so many24% · 5×so great14% · 3×so long10% · 2×so many things5% · 1×such a great5% · 1×so great?5% · 1×such great5% · 1×other renderings5% · 1×

21 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 9 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial45%object35%subject15%predicate5%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 20 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
τρεῖςthreeπαρακαλέωI summon, entrea
οὐδείςno one, none, nothin
παρά
ἄρτοςbread, a loaf, food
ἐρημίαa desert place
ὄχλοςa crowd
χορτάζωI feed, satisfy
ἸσραήλProp
Article the
τοσοῦτοςsuch a great20×
what comes after →
πίστιςfaith, belief, trust
ἐνεὑρίσκωI find
χρόνοςtime, a particular t
μετάκαθώςjust as, as
ὥστεso that, therefore
χορτάζωI feed, satisfy
ἔτοςa year
δουλεύωI am a slave, am
δέbut, on the other ha
αὐτός

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Concordanceτοσοῦτος · 20× in the New Testament
Hebrews John Matthew Acts Luke Revelation 1 Corinthians Galatians
Across the New Testament8 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria Clement of Rome The Shepherd of Hermas Ignatius of Antioch
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 16c. AD 40

προλαβὼν γὰρ ὁ θεὸς ἅτε θεὸς ὅτι μίμημα καλὸν οὐκ ἄν ποτε γένοιτο δίχα καλοῦ παραδείγματος οὐδέ τι τῶν αἰσθητῶν ἀνυπαίτιον, ὃ μὴ πρὸς ἀρχέτυπον καὶ νοητὴν ἰδέαν ἀπεικονίσθη, βουληθεὶς τὸν ὁρατὸν κόσμον τουτονὶ δημιουργῆσαι προεξετύπου τὸν νοητόν,…

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.18c. AD 75–95

Ἐπειδὴ δὲ πάντα σχεδὸν ἐκ τῆς τοῦ νομοθέτου σοφίας ἡμῖν ἀνήρτηται Μωυσέος, ἀνάγκη μοι βραχέα περὶ ἐκείνου προειπεῖν, ὅπως μή τινες τῶν ἀναγνωσομένων διαπορῶσι, πόθεν ἡμῖν ὁ λόγος περὶ νόμων καὶ πράξεων ἔχων τὴν ἀναγραφὴν ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον φυσιολογίας…

Clement of RomeFirst Clement 19.1c. AD 96

Τῶν τοσούτων οὖν καὶ τοιούτων οὕτως μεμαρτυρημένων τὸ ταπεινόφρον καὶ τὸ ὑποδεὲς διὰ τῆς ὑπακοῆς οὐ μόνον ἡμᾶς, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰς πρὸ ἡμῶν γενεὰς βελτίους ἐποίησεν, τούς τε καταδεξαμένους τὰ λόγια αὐτοῦ ἐν φόβῳ καὶ ἀληθείᾳ.

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2nd c. AD 4th c. AD 3rd c. AD 6th c. AD 3rd c. BC
P.Flor. 2 176Theadelphia (Arsinoites)AD 253

μετὰ γραμμάτων ἀναπέμπειν καὶ δηλοῦν τί ἀνεπέμφθη διὰ τίνος. ἃ δὲ ἀνεπέμψας οὐκ ἦν τοσαῦτα ὥστε καὶ ἄνθρωπον καὶ ὄνον καταργηθῆναι διὰ τέσσαρα κερτύλλια συκαρίων σαπρῶν. ἐνεφαίνετο δὲ ἐκ

P.Flor. 2 212Theadelphia (Arsinoites)AD 250–AD 261

Νίννος Ἡρωνίνῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. εἰς τοσαύτην ἀτυχίαν ἦλθες τοσαῦτα λήμματα ἀναλίσκων ὡς μὴ ἔχειν σε ἀρτάβην μίαν λωτινοῦ. τὴν μὲν

P.Cair. Isid. 76 (57361)Karanis (Arsinoites)AD 318

τῶν ἄλλων ἐγκρατεῖς ἐγένοντο ἐμοὶ μηδὲν παρασχόμενοι μήτε τὰ ὄσπρεα μήτε τὰ βοικὰ τετράποδα τοσούτου χρόνου διαγενομένου καταφρονοῦντές μου. τούτου ἕνεκεν καταλαμβάνω τὴν σὴν ἀνδρείαν δεόμενος καὶ παρακαλῶν ὅπως

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
ἔχοντεςechō having G2192 Verb · present · active · participle · nominative · plural · masculine
709× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Hebrews as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This Greek word means to have or hold something, like a possession or ability. It is used in many ways, such as having power or being with someone. The Bible uses it in Revelation 5:8 and 14:6.
Tyndale gloss
to have/be
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ἔχω, transliterated as echō, means 'to have' or 'to hold' and is used in various contexts, including possession, ability, and condition. It appears frequently in the New Testament, often relating to physical possession or metaphorical concepts like keeping faith or emotions. Notably, it can also refer to being pregnant, as seen in Matthew 1:18. The entries do not show significant disagreement.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἔχω,

[in LXX for אָצֵל (ἐχόμενος), בַּעַל, יֵשׁ, etc., 59 words in all;]

(on the Aktionsart of the various tenses, v. M, Pr., 110, 145, 150, 183),

to have, as in cl., in various senses and constructions.

Trans.;

to have, hold, hold fast, etc.;

to hold, as, in the hand: Re 5:8 14:6, al.; ἐν τ. χειρί, Re 1:16 10:2, al.;

of arms and clothing, = φέρω, φορέω, to bear, wear: Mt 3:4 22:12, al.; so freq. pres. ptcp. (LS, s.v., A, I, 6; Bl., § 74, 2), Mk 11:13, Jo 18:10, Re 9:17, al.;

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ἔχω ; fut. ἕξω ; impf. εἶχον, [1 pers. plur. εἴχαμεν, 2 Jn. ἔχω 266 5 T Tr WH], 8 pers. plur. εἶχαν (Mk. viii. 7 L T Tr WH; Rey. ix. 8 LT Tr WH; but ef. [ Soph. Lex., Intr. p. 38; Tdf. Proleg. p. 123; WH. App. p. 165]; B. 40 (35)) and εἴχοσαν (LT Tr WH in Jn. xv. 22, 24; but ef. Bitm. in Theol. Stud. u. Krit. 1858, pp. 485 sqq. 491; see his N. T. Gr. p. 43 (37); [Soph. Lex., Intr. p. 39; Τὰ Proleg. p. 124; WH. App. p. 165; ef. δολεόω ]) ; pres. mid. ptep. ἐχόμενος ; to have,—with 2 aor. act. ἔσχον; pf. ἔσχηκα; I. Transitively. have (hold) in the hand: τὶ ἐν τῇ χειρί, Rev. i. 16; vi. 5; x. 2; xvii. 4; and simply, Rev. v. 8; viii. 3, 6; xiv. 6, ete.; Heb. viii. 3. Ὁ. in the sense of wearing (Lat. gestare) ; of garments, arms and the like: τὸ ἔνδυμα, Mt. iii. 4; xxii. 12; κατὰ κεφαλῆς ἔχων, sc. τί, having a covering hanging down from the head, i.e. having the head covered [B. $130, 5; W. §…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

ἔχω. It may be well to illustrate some of the less usual forms of this common verb. The future σχήσω (cf. Kithner-Blass Gr. 1. ii. p. 112 n.8) is restored by the editor in OGZS 751° (ii/ B.C.) ἐπεὶ θλιβέντες ἐμ πλείοσιν ἀσθενῶς [σχή]σετε. For the 2 aor. with 1 aor. termination (cf. Ac 757 D συνἐσχαν) see BGU 11. 4518 (i/ii A.D.) ἀναγκαίως ἔσχαμεν δ[ι7᾽ ἐπιστολῆς σε ἀσπάσεσθαι, and for ἔσχοσαν cf. OG/S 315°" (B.C. 164-159) ὑφοψίαν μοχθηράν, ἣν Kal περὶ Tod ἀδελφοῦ ἔσχοσαν. In 20. 2237 (iii/B.c.) we have αὐτοὶ ἀπολογισάμενοι περί τε τῆς εὐνοίας ἣν διὰ παντὸς εἰσχήκατε εἰς τὴν ἡμετέραν οἰκίαν, and for similar forms see the editor's note ® to 2b. 323. For the trans. use of the verb see such passages as P Oxy IV. 743!® (B.c. 2) εἰ καὶ m[p]ds ἄλλους εἶχον πρᾶγμα, βοηθὸν αὐτοῦ γ[εἸνέσθαι διὰ ἣν ἔχομε(ν) πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς φιλίαν, BGU I. 228(a.p. 114) (= «ϑελδείζογις, p. 74), which illustrate 1 Cor…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἔχω (echō) — to have/be.

ἔχω,

__A2nd pers. singular ἔχεισθα conjecture in [Refs 7th c.BC+]; 2nd pers. singular subjunctive ἔχῃσθα [Refs 8th c.BC+]imperfect εἶχον, Epic dialect ἔχον [Refs 8th c.BC+], Ionic dialect and poetry ἔχεσκον [Refs 8th c.BC+]future ἕξω, Epic dialect infinitive ἑξέμεναι [Refs 3rd c.BC+] (of momentary action, especially in sense check, see below [Refs 4th c.BC+], not found in Attic dialect Inscrr. or [Refs]; 2nd pers. singular σχήσησθα [Refs]aorist 1 ἔσχης α falsa lectio in [Refs 3rd c.AD+]aorist 2 ἔσχον, imperative σχές [Refs 5th c.BC+] only in Oracle texts cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; subjunctive σχῶ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. plural σχοίησαν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; infinitive σχεῖν [Refs 8th c.BC+], Epic dialect σχέμεν [Refs] (in Alexandr. Gr. 3rd.pers. plural imperfect and aorist 2 εἴχοσαν [NT+3rd c.BC+], see at {Σχέθω}: perfect ἔσχηκα [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἔχω

echo

scheo skheh'-o; (used in certain tenses only)

a primary verb; to hold (used in very various applications, literally

or figuratively, direct or remote; such as possession; ability,

contiuity, relation, or condition):--be (able, X hold, possessed

with), accompany, + begin to amend, can(+ -not), X conceive, count,

diseased, do + eat, + enjoy, + fear, following, have, hold, keep, +

lack, + go to law, lie, + must needs, + of necessity, + need, next, +

recover, + reign, + rest, + return, X sick, take for, + tremble, +

uncircumcised, use.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἔχω

v.

I have, hold, possess

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἔχω echō 708x

pluperfect., ἐσχήκειν, to hold, Rev. 1:16; to seize, possess a person, Mk. 16:8; to have, possess, Mt. 7:29, et al. freq.; to have, have ready, be furnished with, Mt. 5:23; Jn. 5:36; 6:68; to have as a matter of crimination, Mt. 5:23; Mk. 11:25; to have at command, Mt. 27:65; to have the power, be able, Mt. 18:25; Lk. 14:14; Read the full entry →

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-PAP-NPM — Verb · present · active · participle · nominative · plural · masculine
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-PAP-NPM Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Present Voice: Active Mood: Participle Case: Nominative Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
29%having
having29% · 211×has9% · 62×have8% · 58×you have7% · 52×i have5% · 36×we have5% · 35×he has3% · 24×had3% · 21×other renderings30% · 217×

716 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 97 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
verb99%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 709 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
οὐNeg
καίand, even, also,ἄρτοςbread, a loaf, fἄνθρωποςa man, one of th
Article the
ἄγγελοςan angel, messenαὐτόςκαίand, even, also,
μήNeg
Article theδέbut, on the otheπρόβατονa sheep
ὅς
καίand, even, also,ἐνεἰμίI am, exist
χρείαneed, necessity, bus
οὐNegαὐτόςὅς
ἔχωhaving709×
what comes after →
Article the
ἑπτάIndecυἱόςa son, descendenδέbut, on the othe
καίand, even, also, nam
Article theοὐNegὅς
ἐν
Article theἑαυτοῦΧριστόςanointed, the Me
οὖςthe ear
ἀκούωI hear, listen
ἐξουσίαpower, authority, we
Article theἀλλάbut, exceptἐκβάλλωI throw, cast, p

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceἔχω · 709× in the New Testament
Revelation John Luke Matthew Mark 1 Corinthians Acts Hebrews 1 John Romans 2 Corinthians 1 Timothy

Every reference is on the Strong's page.

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome Ignatius of Antioch
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 11c. AD 40

ἀπεριμάχητον δὲ δόγμα καὶ ἀνωφελὲς ἀναρχίαν ὡς ἐν πόλει κατασκευάζον τῷδε τῷ κόσμῳ τὸν ἔφορον ἢ βραβευτὴν ἢ δικαστὴν οὐκ ἔχοντι, ὑφ’ οὗ πάντ’ οἰκονομεῖσθαι καὶ πρυτανεύεσθαι θέμις.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.11c. AD 75–95

ὁ δὲ τῶν παρʼ ἡμῖν ἀρχιερέων οὐδενὸς ἀρετῇ δεύτερος Ἐλεάζαρος τῷ προειρημένῳ βασιλεῖ ταύτης ἀπολαῦσαι τῆς ὠφελείας οὐκ ἐφθόνησε πάντως ἀντειπὼν ἄν, εἰ μὴ πάτριον ἦν ἡμῖν τὸ μηδὲν ἔχειν τῶν καλῶν ἀπόρρητον.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.5c. AD 100

λογισάμενος οὖν τοῦτο, ὅτι ἐὰν μελήσῃ μοι περὶ ὑμῶν τοῦ μέρος τι μεταδοῦναι ἀφ̓ οὗ ἔλαβον, ὅτι ἔσται μοι τοιούτοις πνεύμασιν ὑπηρετήσαντι εἰς μισθόν, ἐσπούδασα κατὰ μικρὸν ὑμῖν πέμπειν, ἵνα μετὰ τῆς πίστεως ὑμῶν τελείαν ἔχητε τὴν γνῶσιν.

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2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 3rd c. BC 6th c. AD 4th c. AD
P.Gen. 1 20Pathyris110 BC

ἔτους η Μεχεὶρ β, ἐπὶ Σώσου ἀγορανόμου. ὁμολογεῖ Ἁρκοννῆσις Φιγήριος Πέρσης τῶν μισθοφόρων ἱππέων ἔχειν παρὰ Ναομσήσιος τῆς Σπεμμίνιος εἰς λύτρα τετάρτης μερίδος γῆς ἠπείρου σιτοφόρου ἐν τῆι κάτω

P.Bad. 2 3Pathyris110 BC

Μεχεὶρ β ἐν Παθύρει ἐπὶ Σώσου ἀγορανόμου. ὁμολογεῖ Ἁρκοννῆσις Φιγήριος Πέρσης τῶν μισθοφόρων ἱππέων ἔχειν παρὰ Ναομσήσιος τῆς Σπεμμίνιος εἰς λύτρα τετάρτης μερίδος γῆς ἠπείρου σιτοφόρου ἐν τῇ κάτω

P.Adl. 4Ptolemais (Oberägypten)110 BC

Ψεμμῖνις … ου Ὥρωι Νεχούτου χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἔχειν παρὰ σοῦ χαλκοῦ νομίσματος τάλαντα τρῖα ἄτοκα ?. ταῦτα δέ ἐστιν ἃ προσωφείλετό σοι

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
περικείμενονperikeimai encompassing G4029 Verb · present · no voice stated · participle · accusative · singular · neuter
5× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Hebrews than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
To surround or encircle something, like a cloud of witnesses in Hebrews 12:1. It can also mean to be hampered or restricted by something.
Amplified meaning
encircled, compassed about
Tyndale gloss
to surround
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

περίκειμαι is built from the prefix περί and the verb κεῖμαι, meaning to lie around or be surrounded. It covers a range of meanings, including to be encircled, to wear, or to be in a state of submission. In the New Testament, it appears in contexts such as being surrounded by a cloud of witnesses in Hebrews 12:1 and being bound in chains in Acts 28:20.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

** περί-κειμαι,

[in LXX: Ep. Je 24, 58, IV Mac 12:3*;]

to lie round about: μύλος, λίθος (RV, were hanged about), Mk 9:42, Lk 17:2; νεφος μαρτύρων, He 12:1.

to have around one, be clothed with: Ac 28:20; fig., ἀσθένειαν, He 5:2.†

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

περί-κειμαι ; (περί and κεῖμαι) ; fr. Hom. down; τις to lie around [οἷ. περί, III. 1]: περί [ef. W. 8 52, 4, 12] τι, [A. V. were hanged, Mk. ix. 42]; Lk. xvii. 2; ἔχοντες περικείμενον ἡμῖν νέφος, [A.V. are compassed about with a cloud ete.], Heb. xii. 1. 2. passively [cf. B. 50 (44)], to be compassed with, have round one, [with ace. ; ef. W. § 32, 5; B. §134, 7]: ἅλυσιν, Acts xxviii. 20 (deσμά, 4 Mace. xil. 3); ἀσθένειαν, infirmity cleaves to me, Heb. v. 2 (ὕβριν, Theoer. 23,14; ἀμαύρωσιν, νέφος, Clem. Rom. 2 Cor. 1, 6).

Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

περίκειμαι. For the literal sense “‘ wear,” ‘“‘carry,”’ c. acc., as in Ac 2829 (cf. 4 Macc 12), cf. OG/S 56°? (B.c. 238) περικειμένων τὰς ἰδίας βασιλείας (‘‘diadems ”’) (cited by Mayser Gr. p. 34). ‘Vhe metaphorical usage is seen in the illiterate P Lond 1926!* (mid. iv/A.D.), where a certain Valeria asks for Paphnutius’s prayers—peydhw yap νόσῳ περίκιμε δυσπνήας δινῆς (1. περίκειμαι δυσπνοίας δεινῆς), “‘for I am afflicted with a great disease in the shape of a grievous shortness of breath ’’ (Bell): cf. Heb 5%, and from literary sources Theocritus xxiii. 13 f. φεῦγε 8 ἀπὸ χρὼς] ὕβριν τᾶς ὀργᾶς περικείμενος, Anth. Pal. xi. 38 πῖνε καὶ ἔσθιε καὶ περικεῖσο ἄνθεα.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

περίκειμαι (perikeimai) — to surround.

περίκειμαι,

infinitive -κεῖσθαι: future -κείσομαι: —used as passive of περιτίθημι, lie round about, with dative, εὗρε σὲ Πατρόκλῳ περικείμενον ὃν φίλον νἱόν lying with his arms round him, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; [γωρυτὸς τόξῳ] περίκειτο] there was a case round the bow, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; πασσάλοις (accusative plural) κρύπτοισιν περικείμεναι.. κνάμισες [Refs 7th c.BC+]; τὸ σχῆμα καὶ τὸ ὄνομα τῆς βασιλείας τινὶ π. [Refs 1st c.AD+]: with a preposition, περὶ [τὰς φλέβας] τὸ σῶμα π. τὸ τῶν σαρκῶν [Refs 4th c.BC+] plates of gold laid on (an ivory statue), [Refs 5th c.BC+]; [ὁ κημὸς] περικείμενος put round the horse's mouth, [Refs 5th…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

περίκειμαι

perikeimai

from 4012 and 2749; to lie all around, i.e. inclose, encircle, hamper

(literally or figuratively):--be bound (compassed) with, hang about.

see GREEK for 4012

see GREEK for 2749

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

περίκειμαι

v.

I surround, am surrounded with

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

περίκειμαι perikeimai 5x

to lie around, be surround, Heb. 12:1; to be hung around, Mk. 9:42; Lk. 17:2; to have around one’s self, to wear, Acts 28:20; to be in submission to, Heb. 5:2*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

περίκειμαι inf. -κεῖσθαι fut. -κείσομαι used as Pass. of παρακατατίθημι to lie round about, c. dat., εὗρε δὲ Πατρόκλῳ περικείμενον ὃν φίλον υἱόν she found her son lying with his arms round Patroclus, Il.; γωρυτὸς τόξῳ περίκειτο there was a case round the bow, Od.: —absol. to lie or be round, Hes.; τὰ περικείμενα χρυσία plates of gold laid on (an ivory statue), Thuc.

metaph., οὔ τι μοι περίκειται there is no advantage for me, it is nothing to me, Il.

c. acc. rei, to have round one, to wear, mostly in part., περικείμενοι [τελαμῶνας] περὶ τοῖσι αὐχέσι Hdt.; π. δύναμιν invested with power, Plut.; π. ἅλυσιν with a chain round one, NTest.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-PNP-ASN — Verb · present · no voice stated · participle · accusative · singular · neuter
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular neuter.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-PNP-ASN Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Present Voice: middle or passive depoNent Mood: Participle Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Neuter

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
20%i have around
i have around20% · 1×encompassed by20% · 1×encompassing20% · 1×put20% · 1×hung20% · 1×

5 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 5 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
verb100%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 5 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
εἰCond
μᾶλλονmore, rather
μυλικόςbelonging to a mill
λίθοςa stone
οὗτος
ἅλυσιςa light chain
αὐτός
καίand, even, also,
ἔχωI have, hold, posses
τοσοῦτος
περίκειμαιencompassing
what comes after →
μύλοςa millstone
ὀνικόςpertaining to an
περί
Article the
ἀσθένειαwant of strength, we
ἐγώ
νέφοςa cloud, multitu

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceπερίκειμαι · 5× in the New Testament
Hebrews Acts Luke Mark
Across the New Testament4 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The company it keepswords that stand beside it more often than chance
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria Ignatius of Antioch The Shepherd of Hermas
Philo of AlexandriaOn Husbandry 15c. AD 40

καθάπερ γὰρ τὸ περικείμενον τεῖχος ὀπώρας καὶ φυτῶν τῶν κατὰ τὸν ἀγρόν ἐστι φυλακτήριον τοὺς ἐπὶ τῷ σίνεσθαι παρεισφθείρεσθαι βουλομένους ἀνεῖργον, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον τὸ λογικὸν μέρος φιλοσοφίας φρουρά τίς ἐστιν ὀχυρωτάτη τῶν δυεῖν ἐκείνων, ἠθικοῦ τε…

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 6.333c. AD 75–95

τοῦ δὲ τὴν εἰκόνα φράζειν εἰπόντος καὶ τὸ σχῆμα τοῦ θεαθέντος καὶ τὴν ἡλικίαν κελεύσαντος γέροντα μὲν ἤδη καὶ ἔνδοξον ἐσήμαινεν, ἱερατικὴν δὲ περικείμενον διπλοΐδα.

The Shepherd of HermasThe Shepherd of Hermas 23.2.5c. AD 140

πάλιν προέβην μικρόν, καὶ δεικνύει μοι ποιμένα μέγαν ὡσεὶ ἄγριον τῇ ἰδέᾳ, περικείμενον δέρμα αἴγειον λευκόν, καὶ πήραν τινὰ εἶχεν ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων καὶ ῥάβδον σκληρὰν λίαν καὶ ὄζους ἔχουσαν καὶ μάστιγα μεγάλην: καὶ τὸ βλέμμα εἶχε περίπικρον, ὥστε…

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
4th c. AD 6th c. AD
P.Lond. 6 1926AD 326–AD 375

σῶν εὐχῶν ἴασιν λαμβάνω, τῶν γὰρ ἀσκουντων καὶ θρησκευόντων ἀποκαλύμματα δεικνύονται. μεγάλῃ γὰρ νόσῳ περίκειμαι δυσπνοίας δεινῆς. οὕτως γὰρ πεπίστευκα καὶ πιστεύω ὅτι ἐὰν εὔξῃ ἐπάνω μου ἴασιν λαμβάνω.

P.Cair. Masp. 1 67077Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)AD 501–AD 600

παραιτεῖσθαι Σωφρόνιον ἀρχΐατρον ἀντιλαβέσθαι αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐθεράπευσεν τὸ αἷμα στείλας, ἐπειδὴ γὰρ πλῆγμα πανὺ περίκειται τῆι αὐτοῦ κεφαλῆι, καὶ τὸ ὅλον δὲ σῶμα αὐτοῦ κατακέκλασται. τοῦ Θεοῦ οὖν ἐστι

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
ἡμῖνegō us G3165 Personal pronoun · first person · dative · plural
1,872× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
In plain English
Tyndale gloss
I/we
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἐγώ, gen, etc., ἐμοῦ, ἐμοί, ἐμέ (enclitic μου, μοι, με), pl. ἡμεῖς, -ῶν, -ῖν, -ᾶς,

pers. pron.

I.

The nom. is usually emphatic, when expressed as subjc, as in Mt 3:11, Mk 1:8, Lk 3:16, al. But often there is no apparent emphasis, as Mt 10:16, Jo 10:17; ἰδοὺ ἐ. (= Heb. הִנֵּנִי, cf. I Ki 3:8), Ac 9:10; ἐ. (like Heb. אֲנִי), I am, Jo 1:23 (LXX), Ac 7:32 (LXX).

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ἐγώ, gen. ἐμοῦ, enclitic pod; dat. ἐμοί, enclitic μοί; acc. ἐμέ, enclitic μέ; plur. ἡμεῖς, ete.; personal pronoun, J. 1. The nominatives ἐγώ and ἡμεῖς, when joined to a verb, generally have force and emphasis, or indicate antithesis, as Mt. iii. 11; Mk.i. 8; Lk. iii. 16 (ἐγὼ pev... ὁ δέ); Mt. iii. 14 (ἐγὼ... ἔχω, καὶ σύν ; V. 22, 28, 39, and often; ἡμεῖς, contrasted with God, Mt. vi. 12; ἡμεῖς x. of Φαρισαῖοι, Mt. ix. 14; cf. W. § 22,6. But sometimes they are used where there is no emphasis or antithesis in them, as Mt. x. 16; Jn. x. 17; and in many edd. in Mk. i. 2; Lk. vii. 27; οἵ. B. §129, 12. ἰδοὺ ἐγώ, 1397, behold me, hereamT: Acts ix.10 (1S. iii. 8). ἐγώ, like 38, Jam: Jn. i. 23; Acts vii. 32, [ef. W.585 (544); B. 125 (109)]. 2. The enclitic (and monosyllabic) gen., dat., and ace. are connected with nouns, verbs, adverbs, but not with prepositions: ἔμπροσθέν pov, Jn. i. 15; ὀπίσω…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

ἐγώ. Deissmann (ZAZ p. 134 ff.) has drawn attention to the parallels to the solemn use of the first personal pronoun in the Fourth Gospel that may be adduced from inscriptions and magical texts. Thus in an inscr. in honour of Isis from Ios, written in ii/iii A.p., the contents of which are preChristian, we find —Elows ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ τ[ύρανν]ος πάσης χόρας.. ἐγὼ νόμους ἀνθρώποις ἐθέμην . . ἐγώ εἰμι Kpdvov θυγάτηρ πρεσβυτάτη α΄. And similarly in the magical papyrus P Lond 4645 (iv/a.p.) (=I. p. 69) ἐγώ εἰμι ὃ ἀκέφαλος δαίμων . . ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ ἀλήθεια ὁ μεισῶν ἀδικήματα γείνεσθαι ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ α΄. With the construction of the phrase τί ἐμοὶ καὶ σοί ; in Jn 24 we may compare BGU IV. 1141°8 (n.c. 14) ἐδίδουν αὐτῷ διαστολὰς μηδὲν αὐτῶι καὶ ἐκείνωι εἶναι : for its meaning see Ε΄. C. Burkitt in 77:5 xiii. p- 594f., where it is rendered, ‘‘ What have I and thou to do with that ?” On the difficult…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

μέ (me) — me.

ἐγώ,

I: pronoun of the first person:—Epic dialect mostly ἐγών before vowels (so in Doric dialect, before consonants, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect ἱών [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:— strengthened ἔγωγε, I at least, for my part, indeed, for myself (more frequently in Attic dialect than in [Refs 8th c.BC+]: Doric dialect ἐγώνγα [Refs 7th c.BC+]: Boeotian dialect ἱώνγα [Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἱώνει [Refs]; ἰώγα [Refs 5th c.BC+]: Laconian dialect and Tarentum dialect ἐγώνη, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

II. oblique cases from a different root, genitive ἐμοῦ, enclitic μο; Ionic dialect and Epic dialect ἐμέο, ἐμεῦ, μευ, also ἐμέθεν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect ἔμεθεν [Refs 7th c.BC+]; Doric dialect ἐμέος, ἐμεῦς, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect ἐμοῦς [Refs 6th c.BC+] — _dative_ ἐμοί, enclitic μοι (which may be compared with Sanskrit…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἐγώ

me

a shorter (and probably originally) from of 1691; me:--I, me, my.

see GREEK for 1691

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἐγώ egō 2x

I, gen., ἐμοῦ [μου], dat., ἐμοί [μοι], acc., ἐμέ [με]

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Pron-1DP — Personal pronoun · first person · dative · plural
dative — to, for, with — the one it is done to or by.
Agrees with anything else marked plural.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

P-1DP Part of Speech: Personal pronoun Person: first Case: Dative Number: Plural

English usagewhat the translators’ English meant
Webster's Dictionary (1828), Webster's Unabridged (1913), Webster's Dictionary (1806)

US, pronoun objective case of we.

Give us this day our daily bread.

Us , pron. [OE. us, AS. s; akin to OFries. & OS. s, D. ons, G. uns, Icel. & Sw. oss, Dan. os, Goth. uns, L. nos we, us, Gr. we, Skr. nas us. . Cf. Nostrum, Our.] The persons speaking, regarded as an object; ourselves; — the objective case of we. See We. “Tell us a tale.” Chaucer.

Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11.

Us, pron. oblique case of we

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
35%us
us35% · 717×me32% · 644×mine20% · 402×we ourselves6% · 124×my2% · 45×other renderings5% · 97×

2,029 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 27 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
νέφοςnephos a cloud G3509 Noun · accusative · singular · neuter
1× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Hebrews than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
A cloud is a large visible mass of water vapor in the sky, like the one mentioned in Hebrews 12:1, often used to describe a dense gathering of people.
Tyndale gloss
cloud
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word νέφος (nephos) means 'cloud' and can also refer metaphorically to a dense throng or multitude. It appears in the New Testament in Hebrews 12:1, where it describes a large crowd of witnesses. The term is built from a primary word and is used in various contexts, including both literal and metaphorical senses, such as a 'cloud of battle' or a 'cloud of death.'

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

νέφος, -ους, τό,

[in LXX for עָב, שַׁחַק, עָנָן;]

a mass of clouds, a cloud (cf. νεφέλη); metaph. (as in Hom., Hdt., al.), of a dense throng: He 12:1.†

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

νέφος, -ους, [allied with Lat. nubes, nebula, ete.], τό, Sept. for 3 and }3y, a cloud; in the N. T. once trop. a large, dense multitude, a throng: μαρτύρων, Heb. xii. 1, often so in prof. auth., as νέφ. Ἡρώων, πεζῶν, ψαρῶν, Koλοιῶν, Hom. Π. 4, 274; 16,66; 17, 755; 23,133; avOpaπων, Hdt. 8,109; στρουθῶν, Arstph. av. 578; ἀκρίδων, Diod. 3, 29; peditum equitumque nubes, Liv. 35, 49." [Syn. νέφος, νεφέλη: νέφος is general, νεφέλη specific; the former denotes the great, shapeless collection of vapor obscuring the heavens; the latter designates particular and definite masses of the same, suggesting form and limit. Cf. Schmidt vol. i. ch. 36.| vedpés, -οὔ, 6, a kidney (Plat., Arstph.); plur. the kidneys, the loins, as Sept. for nv 53 used of the inmost thoughts, feelings, purposes, of the soul: with the addition of καρδίας, Rev. ii. 23, with which ef. Ps. vii. 10; Jer. xi. 20; xvii. 10; Sap.…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

νέφος (nephos) — cloud.

νέφος, εος, τό,

cloud, mass of clouds, [Refs 8th c.BC+]

2. metaphorically [Refs 8th c.BC+]; σκότου ν., of blindness, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. οἰμωγῆς, στεναγμῶν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀφρύων ν. a cloud upon the brow, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

II. metaphorically, also, a cloud of men, etc., ν. πεζῶν, Τρώων, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ψαρῶν, κολοιῶν,[Refs 5th c.BC+]; πενεστάων ν.[NT]; πολέμοιο ν. the cloud of battle, thick of the fight, [Refs 8th c.BC+]. (Cf. Sanskrit nábhas 'fog', 'cloud', Slavonic nebo 'heaven', Latin nebula.)

Strong's Greek Dictionary

νέφος

nephos

apparently a primary word; a cloud:--cloud.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

νέφος, ους, τό

n.n.

a cloud, multitude, great company

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

νέφος nephos 1x

a cloud; trop. a cloud, a throng of persons, Heb. 12:1*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

νέφος νέφος, εος, a cloud, mass or pile of clouds, Hom., etc.

metaph., θανάτου νέφος the cloud of death, id. Hom.; so, σκότου ν., of blindness, Soph.; ν. οἰμωγῆς, στεναγμῶν Eur.; ν. ὀφρύων a cloud upon the brows, id. Eur.

metaph. also a cloud of men or birds, Il., Hdt.; ν. πολέμοιο the cloud of battle, Il.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Noun-ASN — Noun · accusative · singular · neuter
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular neuter.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

N-ASN Part of Speech: Noun Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Neuter

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kloud (`anan, `abh; nephele, nephos):

I. Clouds in Palestine.

In the Bible few references are found of particular clouds or of clouds in connection with the phenomena of the weather conditions. The weather in Palestine is more even and has less variety than that in other lands. It is a long, narrow country with sea on the West and desert on the East. The wind coming from the West is always moist and brings clouds with it. If the temperature over the land is low enough the clouds will be condensed and rain will fall, but if the temperature is high, as in the five months of summer, there can be no rain even though clouds are seen. As a whole the winter is cloudy and the summer clear.

1. Rain Clouds:

In the autumn rain storms often arise suddenly from the sea, and what seems to be a mere haze, "as small as a man's hand," such as Gehazi saw (

Smith's Bible Dictionary

The shelter given, and refreshment of rain promised, by clouds give them their peculiar prominence in Oriental imagery. When a cloud appears rain is ordinarily apprehended, and thus the "cloud without rain" becomes a proverb for the man of promise without performance. (Proverbs 16:15; Isaiah 18:4; 25:5; Jude 1:12) comp. Prov 25:14 The cloud is a figure of transitoriness, (Job 30:15; Hosea 6:4) and of whatever intercepts divine favor or human supplication. (Lamentations 2:1; 3:44) A bright cloud at times visited and rested on the mercy-seat. (

PILLAR OF, the miraculous token of the divine presence and care, Ex 14:24 16:10 Nu 12:5, which guided the Israelites in the desert; it was a means of protection and perhaps of shade by day, and gave them light by night, Ex 13:21,22 14:19,20. By it God directed their movements, Nu 9:15-23 14:14 De 1:33. See the beautiful application of the image to the future church in Isa 4:5.

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
100%cloud
cloud100% · 1×

1 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 1 different way. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

Concordanceνέφος · 1× in the New Testament
Hebrews
Across the New Testament1 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 21 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria Clement of Rome Josephus The Shepherd of Hermas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Unchangeableness of God 174c. AD 40

ἔπνευσέ ποτε λαμπρὸν καὶ ἐπὶ μήκιστον Αἴγυπτος, ἀλλ’ ὡς νέφος αὐτῆς ἡ μεγάλη παρῆλθεν εὐπραγία.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 16.376c. AD 75–95

ὡς ἀπόλοιτο μὲν ἡ ἀλήθεια, τὸ δὲ δίκαιον ἐκ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀνῃρημένον εἴη, κρατοίη δὲ τὰ ψεύσματα καὶ ἡ κακοήθεια καὶ τοσοῦτο νέφος ἐπάγοι τοῖς πράγμασιν, ὡς μηδὲ τὰ μέγιστα τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων παθῶν ὁρᾶσθαι τοῖς ἁμαρτάνουσιν.

Clement of RomeSecond Clement 1.6c. AD 96

ἀμαύρωσιν οὖν περικείμενοι καὶ τοιαύτης ἀχλύος γέμοντες ἐν τῇ ὁράσει, ἀνεβλέψαμεν ἀποθέμενοι ἐκεῖνο ὃ περικείμεθα νέφος τῇ αὐτοῦ θελήσει.

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
μαρτύρων,martus of witnesses, G3144 Noun · genitive · plural · masculine
35× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Hebrews as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means a witness, someone who sees or experiences something and can testify to it. In the Bible, it appears in Matthew 18:16 and Acts 10:41. It can also refer to a martyr.
Amplified meaning
those who have given testimony, martyrs
Tyndale gloss
witness
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word μάρτυς (lemma: martus) means 'witness' and can refer to both judicial and general contexts. It appears in various New Testament passages, often in relation to witnessing for Christ or God, and has evolved to also signify a 'martyr.' The term is derived from a combination of meanings related to witnessing and testimony.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

μάρτυς

(Æolic μάρτυρ), -υρος, ὁ (also ἡ),

[in LXX for עֵד;]

a witness: Ac 10:41, I Ti 6:12, II Ti 2:2, He 12:1 (Westc., in l.); in forensic sense, Mt 18:16 26:65, Mk 14:63, Ac 6:13 7:58, II Co 13:1, I Ti 5:19, He 10:28; c. gen. obj., Lk 24:48,

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

μάρτυς (Acolic μάρτυρ, a form not found in the N. T.; [etymologically one who is mindful, heeds; prob. allied with Lat. memor, ef. Vanitek p. 1201; Curtius § 466]), τυρος, acc. -upa, 6; plur. μάρτυρες, dat. plur. μάρτυσι; Sept. for 137; [Hes., Simon., Theogn., al.]; @ witness (one who avers, or can aver, what he himself has seen or heard or knows by any other means) ; a. ina legal sense: Mt. xviii. 16; xxvi. 65; Mk. xiv. 63; Acts vi. 13; vii. 58; 2 Co. xiii. 1; 1 Tim. v. 19; Heb. x. 28. b. in an historical sense: Acts x. 41; 1 Tim. vi. 12; [2 Tim. ii. 2]; one who is a spectator of anything, 6. g. of a contest, Heb. xii. 1; w. a gen. of the obj., Lk. xxiv. 48; Acts i. 22; ii. 325 ili. 15; v.32 G@LT Tr WH; x. 39; εἰς μαρτ. τῶν λαληθησομένων, who testifies for one’, Actsi.8 LT Tr WH; xiii. 31; w a gen. of the possessor and of the obj., Acts v. 32 Ree. ; μάρτυρα εἶναί τινι, to be a witness…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

μάρτυς. The plur. μάρτυρες is naturally very common, introducing the names of ‘‘ witnesses” to any contract or legal document, e.g. P Eleph 115 (B.c. 311-0) (= Se/ectrons, p. 4), P Hib I. 8919 (B.c. 239), P Magd 12° (B.c. 217) with the editor’s note, P Grenf I. 27ii.7 (B.c. 109), P Ryl 11. 15345 (A.D. 138-61). Other exx. of the word are P Lille I. 29'-31 (iii/B.c.) ἐναντίον μὴ ἔλασσον ἢ δύο μαρτύρων (cf. Mt 181°), P Par 4610 (8.6. 153) (= Witkowski,? p. 86) σὲ αὐτὸν μάρτυρα ἐπισπάσῳ, P Ryl 11. 160(a)® (A.D. 14-37) ἔπιτε[τάχα]μεν Tots μάρτυσι γράφειν, “we have instructed the witnesses to sign,’’ P Oxy X. 1298!° (iv/a.D.) σὲ yap μόνον ἔχω μάρτυρα, and the Christian 26. VIII. 11621 (iv/a.p,) *Epp(avovt))A papt(vs?), ““ Emmanuel is my witness.” For God as witness, see P Gen I. 545 (iv/A.D.) μάρτυρός ἐστιν ὁ [θ]εὸς ὅτι οὐ διὰ AF[p] Ha μάχομε, ἀλλὰ μάχομε διὰ σέ. Inthe important calendar of…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

μάρτυς (martus) — witness.

μάρτῠς, ὁ, ἡ,

Cretan dialect, Epid. μαῖτυς [Refs], Cretan dialect also μαίτυρς [Refs] see ii; genitive μάρτῠρος, accusative -ῠρα [Refs 8th c.BC+], formed from μάρτυρ (which see), except accusative μάρτῠν [Refs 4th c.BC+]; dative plural μάρτῠσι (but μάρτυρσι probably in [Refs 6th c.BC+]:—witness (not in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; μάρτυρας παρέχεσθαι produce witnesses, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μάρτυρα παράγεσθαι, μάρτυρας ἐπάγεσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τί δεῖται μάρτυρο; [Refs]

II. martyr, [NT]

III. Astrology texts, in aspect, μάρτυρες ἀλλήλων [Refs 4th c.AD+]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

μάρτυς

martus

of uncertain affinity; a witness (literally (judicially) or

figuratively (genitive case)); by analogy, a "martyr":-- martyr,

record, witness.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

μάρτυς, υρος, ὁ

n.m.

a witness

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

μάρτυς martys 35x

(1) a judicial witness, deponent, Mt. 18:16; Heb. 10:28; (2) generally, a witness to a circumstance, Lk. 24:48; Acts 10:41; in NT a witness, a testifier, of a doctrine, Rev. 1:5; 3:14; 11:3; (3) a martyr, Acts 22:20; Rev. 2:13

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

μάρτυς a witness, Hes., Theogn.; μάρτυρα θέσθαι τινά Eur.; μ. θεοὺς ποιεῖσθαι Thuc.; μάρτυρι χρῆσθαί τινι Arist.; μάρτυρας παρέχεσθαι to produce witnesses, Plat., etc.; so, μ. παριστάναι Xen.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Noun-GPM — Noun · genitive · plural · masculine
genitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

N-GPM Part of Speech: Noun Case: Genitive Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
Thompson Chain Reference topics

(1) Two or thee Required. See COURTS

(2) Disciples and Early Christians as

Lu 1:2; 24:48; Ac 1:22; 5:32; 10:39; 13:31; 1Pe 5:1; 2Pe 1:16

--SEE Witnessing, TESTIMONY, RELIGIOUS

& TESTIMONY, RELIGIOUS

Testimony, TESTIMONY, RELIGIOUS

--, Living. See TESTIMONY, RELIGIOUS

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
60%witnesses
witnesses60% · 21×witness31% · 11×witnesses?6% · 2×as witness3% · 1×

35 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 4 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
predicate40%adverbial29%object11%subject11%second object6%indirect object3%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 35 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
Article the
καίand, even, also,ΣτέφανοςStephenΧριστόςanointed, the Me
ἐγώ
εἰμίI am, existἀπόὅς
εἰμίI am, exist
ἐγώνῦνnow, already, atὅτιthat, since, bec
δύο
στόμαthe mouth, speecArticle the
ἔχωI have, hold, posses
χρείαneed, necessity,
μάρτυςof witnesses,35×
what comes after →
Article the
πιστόςtrustworthy, faiἀνάστασιςa rising again, ῥῆμαa thing spoken
εἰμίI am, exist
καίand, even, also,
οὗτος
παρατίθημιI set before, se
αὐτός
πρός
γάρfor
ἐγώ

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceμάρτυς · 35× in the New Testament
Acts Revelation 1 Thessalonians 1 Timothy 2 Corinthians Hebrews Luke Matthew 1 Peter 2 Timothy Mark Philippians
Across the New Testament13 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 36 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria Josephus Clement of Rome Ignatius of Antioch
Philo of AlexandriaAllegorical Interpretation of Genesis 2.55c. AD 40

καὶ τὸν καλοῦντα παρεσιώπησεν, ἵνα συγκινηθεῖσα ἡ ψυχὴ σκέψηται, τίς ὁ μαρτυρῶν ταῖς φιλαρέτοις διανοίαις ἐστί.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.128c. AD 75–95

μάρτυς δέ μου τῷ λόγῳ μία τῶν ἐν Κύπρῳ πόλεων ἰσχύσασα τὴν προσηγορίαν φυλάξαι·

Clement of RomeFirst Clement 63.3c. AD 96

ἐπέμψαμεν δὲ ἄνδρας πιστοὺς καὶ σώφρονας ἀπὸ νεότητος ἀναστραφέντας ἕως γήρους ἀμέμπτως ἐν ἡμῖν, οἵτινες καὶ μάρτυρες ἔσονται μεταξὺ ὑμῶν καὶ ἡμῶν.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
3rd c. BC 6th c. AD 2nd c. BC 2nd c. AD 7th c. AD
P.Giss. 1 39Theben206 BC–181 BC

θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν καὶ θεῶν Εὐργετῶν καὶ θεῶν Φιλοπατόρων καὶ θεῶν Ἐπιφανῶν τῶν πέντε φυλῶν· μάρτυρες … … … πει … … ι … πρ … … των προγεγραμμεν

P. Grenf. 1 12Latopolis151 BC

συγγενῆ, ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ Ἐσθλάδου τοῦ Ἐσθλάδου. Ἀλλωι δὲ οὐθενὶ οὐθὲν καταλείπω οὐδε δίδωμι. Μαρτυρες … … … … δεξι … … μελίχρως τετανὸς … οὐλὴ … δεξι οἱ

δὲ ὁ διατιθέμενος Παχνοῦβις ὡς ἐτῶν ν εὐμεγέθης μελίχρως τετανὸς ἀναφάλανθος μακροπρόσωπος εὐθύριν οὐλή. μάρτυρες Ἑρμίας Ἀσκληπιάδου Πέρσης τῶν μισθοφόρων ἱππέων ὡς ἐτῶν κε εὐμεγέθης μελίχρως κλαστὸς μακροπρόσωπος εὐθύριν

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
ὄγκονogkos weight G3591 Noun · accusative · singular · masculine
1× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Hebrews than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means 'burden' or 'hindrance', like a weight that slows you down. In Hebrews 12:1, it's used to describe the things that get in the way of our faith.
Amplified meaning
weight, hindrance
Tyndale gloss
impediment
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ὄγκος (i.e., *ogkos*) means bulk, mass, or weight, often referring to a burden or encumbrance. It is used metaphorically in Hebrews 12:1 to denote hindrances in a spiritual context. The word encompasses various meanings, including physical size and metaphorical weights, but there is no significant disagreement among lexicons regarding its core meanings.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

* ὄγκος, -ου, ὁ,

bulk, mass; metaph., an encumbrance: He 12:1.†

SYN.: βάρος, a weight; φορτίον, a burden, that which is borne.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ὄγκος, -ov, 6, (apparently fr. ETKQ, ἐνεγκεῖν, i. q. φόρτος, see Butimann, Lexil. i. 288 sqq. [Fishlake’s trans. p. 151 sq.], whatever is prominent, protuberance, buik, mass, hence), α burden, weight, encumbrance: Heb. xii.1. (In many other uses in Grk. writ. of all ages.)

Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

ὄγκος. For this NT Gm. εἰρ. (Heb 121) cf. P Lond 130197 (horoscope—i/ii A.D.) (=I. p. 136) ἐπίτριτος ὄγκωι, and see Kaibel 8108 cited s.v. κλισία. The meaning “ bulk”’ is seen in Menander Fragm. p. 113, No. 394— οὐπώποτ᾽ ἐζήλωσα πολυτελῆ νεκρόν" εἰς τὸν ἴσον ὄγκον τῷ σφόδρ᾽ ἔρχετ᾽ εὐτελεῖ. «1 never envied an expensive corpse: it comes to the same bulk (¢.c. a handful of ashes) as a very cheap one.” For the verb ὀγκόω cf. Kaibel 314°35— GAN’ ἑτέραν πάλι pot νόσον ἤγαγε γαστρὸς μοῖρα, σπλάγχνα μου ὀγκώσασα καὶ ἐκτήξασα τὰ λοιπά. Cf. 25. 2342 (iii/a.D.) ὀγκωτὰ . . κόνις.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ὄγκος (ogkos) — impediment.

ὄγκος, ὁ,

__B bulk, size, mass of a body, μελέων ἀριδείκετον ὄ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸν.. ὄ. τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ their total number, [Refs]; σμικρᾶς πόλεως ὄ. a city of small size, Plt.[Refs]; ἔχθρας ὄ. μέγαν [Refs]; θαυμαστὸν ὄ. ἀράμενοι τοῦ μύθου taking on my shoulders a monstrous great story, [Refs 4th c.BC+], the space filled by a body, opposed to τὸ κενόν, [Refs]in bulk, GC [Refs]

__B.b flatulent distentions, [Refs]

__B.2 bulk, mass, body, ὄ. φρυγάνων a heap of faggots, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὄ. μαλθακός mass or roll of something soft, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; σμικρὸς ὄ. ἐν σμικρῷ κύτει, of a dead man's ashes, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; γαστρὸς ὄ., of a child in the womb, [Refs 5th c.BC+]bodies, material substances, [Refs]; also ὁ ὄ. τῆς φωνῆς the volume of the…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ὄγκος

ogkos

probably from the same as 43; a mass (as bending or bulging by its

load), i.e. burden (hindrance):--weight.

see GREEK for 43

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ὄγκος, ου, ὁ

n.m.

a weight, burden

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ὄγκος onkos 1x

pr. bulk, weight; a burden, impediment, Heb. 12:1*

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Noun-ASM — Noun · accusative · singular · masculine
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

N-ASM Part of Speech: Noun Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Masculine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

wat (Measure of quantity) mishqal, (mishqol (Eze 4:10), from shaqkal, "to weigh" 'ebhen, "a stone" used for weighing in the balance): Weights were commonly of stone or bronze (or of lead, Zec 5:7,8). They were of various forms, such as the lion-shaped weights of Babylonia and Assyria, or in the form of birds and other animals. The Hebrew and Phoenician weights, when made of stone, were barrel-shaped or spindle-shaped, but in bronze they were often cubical or octagonal or with numerous faces (see illustration under WEIGHTS AND MEASURES). Hemispherical or dome-shaped stone weights have been found in Palestine (PEFS, 1902, p. 344; 1903, p. 117; 1904, p. 209).

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
100%weight
weight100% · 1×

1 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 1 different way. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

Concordanceὄγκος · 1× in the New Testament
Hebrews
Across the New Testament1 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria Josephus
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 1c. AD 40

Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 8.215c. AD 75–95

οἱ δʼ ἅπερ εἰκὸς τοὺς εὔνους καὶ φύσιν ὄχλων εἰδότας παρῄνουν αὐτῷ φιλοφρόνως ὁμιλῆσαι τῷ λαῷ καὶ δημοτικώτερον ἢ κατὰ βασιλείας ὄγκον·

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
4th c. AD
P.Lond. 6 1915Herakleopolites bzw. KynopolitesAD 330–AD 340

τῶν ἐν τῇ αὐτοῦ πατρίδι ἀρχόντων παρὰ τὴν δύναμιν αὐτοῦ εἰσπράττεσθαι καὶ ἐκ τούτου ὄγκον ἀργυρίου δανεισάμενος καὶ ταῦτα ἀπαιτηθεὶς καὶ μὴ δυνάμενος ἀπαντᾶν πρὸς τὰ χρεωστούμενα ἠναγκάσθη ὑπὸ

P.Ross.Georg. 3 10AD 301–AD 500

θεός. θελήσατε οὖν καὶ ἐὰν μίαν ἐπιστολὴν πέμψειν μοι περὶ τῆς ὑγιείας ὑμῶν, μὴ ὄγκον ἕλξετε ὁ φέρων ὑμῖν τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἀντʼ ἐμοῦ δέξασθε αὐτὸν· τὴν χάριν ταύτην ποιῆτε

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
ἀποθέμενοιapotithēmi having laid aside G659 Verb · second aorist · middle · participle · nominative · plural · masculine
9× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Hebrews than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
To put something aside or away, like taking off a garment, as seen in Acts 7:58 and Romans 13:12. This can also mean to stop doing something, like laying aside bad habits. It's about letting go of something that's holding you back.
Amplified meaning
lay aside, cast away
Tyndale gloss
to put aside
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ἀποτίθημι (i.e., *apotithemi*) means to put off or aside, often used in a metaphorical sense to indicate renouncing or laying aside something, such as garments or ethical behaviors. In the New Testament, it appears in contexts like Acts 7:58 and Romans 13:12, always in the middle voice, suggesting an action taken by oneself. The lexicons do not present significant disagreements on its meaning.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἀπο-τίθημι,

[in LXX chiefly for נוּחַ hi.;]

to put off or aside; in NT always mid.,

to put off from oneself as a garment: τ. ἱμάτια, Ac 7:58; metaph., in ethical sense, to put of, lay aside: Ro 13:12, Eph 4:22, 25, Col 3:8, He 12:1, Ja 1:21, I Pe 2:1;

to stow away, put: ἐν τ. φυλακῇ (MM, s.v.), Mt 14:3.†

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ἀπο-τίθημι : 2 aor. mid. ἀπεθέμην ; [fr. Hom. down]; to put off or aside; in the N. T. only mid. to put off from one’s self: τὰ ἱμάτια, Acts vii. 58 ; [to lay up or away, ἐν τῇ φυλακῇ (i. e. put), Mt. xiv. 3 L T Tr WH (so εἰς φυλακήν, Lev. xxiv. 12; Num. xv. 34; 2 Chr. xviii. 26; Polyb. 24, 8, 8; Diod. 4, 49, etc.)]; trop. those things are said to be put off or away which any one gives up, renounces: as τὰ ἔργα τοῦ σκότους, Ro. xiii. 12; — Eph. iv. 22 [οἵ W. 347 (325); B.274 (236) ], 25; Col. iii. 8; Jas. i. 21; 1 Pet. ii. 1; Heb. xii. 1 ; (τὴν ὀργήν, Plut. Coriol. 19; τὸν πλοῦτον, τὴν μαλακίαν, etc. Luc. dial. mort. 10, 8; τ. ἐλευθερίαν kx. παρρησίαν, ibid. 9, ete.).

Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

ἀποτίθημι. The phrase of Mt 143 (LXX a/.) is found nearly in P Eleph 12 (B.C. 223-2) γεγράφαμεν . . . τῶι φυλακίτηι . .. ἀποθέσθαι αὐτοὺς εἰς THY φυλακήν. The label on a mummy, Preisigke 3553, has ἀποτεθ(ειμένη) following ἔνδον ἐστίν, ““ 15 enclosed within.” In P Flor II. 1252 (A.D. 254) τὰ ἀποτεθέντα γένη ἐν Φιλαγρίδι is “ the goods that were stored at P.” So P Ryl II. 125*4 (a.p. 28-9) τὰ ὑπὸ τῆς μητρός μου ἀποτεθειμένα ἐν πυξιδίῳ ἔτι ἀπὸ τοῦ ts [ἔτους) Καίσαρος͵ “certain articles deposited ina little box by my mother as far back as in the 16th year of Augustus” (Edd.). A weakening of the sense of the verb is seen in the fourth century P Oxy I. 120!%; παραμένοντά pot ἄχρις ἂν γνῶ πῶς τὰ κατ᾽ αἰμαὶ ἀποτίθαιται, ““ἴο stay with me until I know the position of my affairs”…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἀποτίθημι (apotithēmi) — to put aside.

ἀποτίθημι,

put away, stow away, δέπας δ᾽ ἀπέθηκ᾽ ἐνὶ χηλῷ[Refs 8th c.BC+]: metaphorically, 'pigeon-hole', class, [Refs 6th c.AD+]

2. expose a child, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. middle (aorist I participle ἀποθησαμένη[Refs 5th c.AD+], put away from oneself, lay aside, τεύχεα κάλ᾽ ἀποθέσθαι ἐπὶ χθονί[Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὴν Σκυθικὴν στολὴν ἀ. put it off, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. κόμας cut it off, in mourning, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τὸν νόμον set aside, i.e. disregard, the law, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τὰν Ἀφροδίταν quell desire, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.2. put away from oneself, avoid, ἀποθέσθαι ἐνιπήν wipe away the reproach, [Refs 8th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἀποτίθημι

apotithemi

from 575 and 5087; to put away (literally or figuratively):--cast off,

lay apart (aside, down), put away (off).

see GREEK for 575

see GREEK for 5087

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἀποτίθημι

v.

I lay off or aside, renounce

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἀποτίθημι apotithēmi 9x

mid: to lay off, lay down or aside, as garments, Acts 7:58; me

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ἀποτίθημι to put away, stow away, Il.

Mid. to put away from oneself, lay aside, of arms and clothes, id. Il., Hdt.; ἀπ. τὸν νόμον to put aside, i. e. disregard, the law, Thuc.

to avoid, escape, of something odious, Il.

to put by for oneself, stow away, Ar., Xen.

ἀποτίθεσθαι εἰς αὖθις to put off, defer Eur., Xen., etc.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-2AMP-NPM — Verb · second aorist · middle · participle · nominative · plural · masculine
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-2AMP-NPM Part of Speech: Verb Tense: second Aorist Voice: Middle Mood: Participle Case: Nominative Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

a-sid': "Distinct from others," "privately," such is the sense of the word in 2Ki 4:4; Mr 7:33. Also "to withdraw" (Lu 9:10 the King James Version; Ac 23:19: hupochoreo, also anachoreo). One is said to have turned aside when he departs from the path of rectitude (Ps 14:3; Sirach 2:7; 1Ti 1:6). In a figurative sense it is used to express the thought of putting aside, to renounce, every hindrance or impediment to a consecrated earnest Christian life (Heb 12:1: apotithemi).

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
22%having put aside
having put aside22% · 2×laid aside11% · 1×we may cast off11% · 1×to have put off11% · 1×having put off11% · 1×do put off11% · 1×having laid aside11% · 1×put aside11% · 1×

9 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 8 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
verb100%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 9 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
διόwherefore
φυλακήa watching, guard, p
ἐν
μάρτυςa witness
Article the
ἐγγίζωI come near, approac
ἡμέραa day
δέbut, on the other ha
νυνίnow, already, at
ἀποτίθημιhaving laid aside
what comes after →
Article the
ἱμάτιονouter garmentψεῦδοςa lie
οὖνtherefore, then
Article theπᾶςall, the whole,
πᾶςall, the whole, ever
καίand, even, also,ῥυπαρίαfilth, pollution
διά
ἩρῳδιάςHerodias
σύ
κατά

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceἀποτίθημι · 9× in the New Testament
Ephesians 1 Peter Acts Colossians Hebrews James Matthew Romans
Across the New Testament8 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The company it keepswords that stand beside it more often than chance
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 8 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Clement of Rome The Shepherd of Hermas Philo of Alexandria
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Special Laws 2.102c. AD 40

οἱ δ’ ἀποθέμενοι πολὺ βάρος πραγματειῶν, ὅσον ἕωθεν εἰς ἑσπέραν ἦσαν ἐπηχθισμένοι, καὶ ἐπανελθόντες οἴκαδε πρὸς ἡσυχίαν τρέπονται καὶ καταδαρθόντες ὕπνῳ βαθεῖ τὸν μεθημερινὸν πόνον ἐκνοσηλεύονται, καὶ πάλιν νεαλεῖς καὶ ἀκμῆτες γενόμενοι σπεύδουσιν…

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 4.171c. AD 75–95

λαβόντες οὖν ἐπὶ τούτοις τὴν χώραν καὶ κτίσαντες πόλεις καρτερὰς τέκνα τε καὶ γυναῖκας καὶ τἆλλα ὅσα συμπεριάγειν μέλλουσιν αὐτοῖς ἂν ἦν ἐμπόδια τοῦ πονεῖν ἀπέθεντο εἰς αὐτάς.

Clement of RomeFirst Clement 43.2c. AD 96

ἐκεῖνος γάρ, ζήλου ἐμπεσόντος περὶ τῆς ἱερωσύνης καὶ στασιαζουσῶν τῶν φυλῶν, ὁποία αὐτῶν εἴη τῷ ἐνδόξῳ ὀνόματι κεκοσμημένη, ἐκέλευσεν τοὺς δώδεκα φυλάρχους προσενεγκεῖν αὐτῷ ῥάβδους ἐπιγεγραμμένας ἑκάστης φυλῆς κατ̓ ὄνομα: καὶ λαβὼν αὐτὰς ἔδησεν καὶ…

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
6th c. AD 3rd c. BC 2nd c. AD 2nd c. BC 3rd c. AD
P.Tebt. 3.2 789Oxyrhyncha? (Arsinoites)141 BC

ἡμᾶς … … αὐτοῦ δεδομένας διαστολὰς τὸν μὲν κωμάρχην … … … ς ἡμῶν ἀπέθεντο εἰς τὴν ἐν τῆι κώμηι ἅλω … … τὸν θησαυρὸν ἀπόντων ἡμῶν ἐξέλαβον

Chrest.Wilck. p. 125Hermopolis (?)AD 116

r Εὐδαιμονὶς Ἀλίνηι τῆι θυγατρὶ χαίρειν. εὔχομαί σε πρὸ πάντων εὐκαίρως ἀποθέσθαι τὸ βάρος καὶ λαβεῖν φάσιν ἐπὶ ἄρρενος. τῆι κθ ἀνέπλευσας καὶ τῆι ἑξῆς κατέσπακα.

P.Ryl. 2 245 VoArsinoitesAD 201–AD 300

δός, ὅπου δύναται τα … υνη ποιῆσαι τέσσαρας … ας ἢ καὶ πρός, δύνασθε ἀποθέσθαι ἐν τῇ ε … … ὅπου εἰσὶν οἱ τα … … εἰς τοὺς μείζονας

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
πάνταpas every G3956 Adjective · accusative · singular · masculine
1,242× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Hebrews as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means all or every, as in Matthew 3:10 and Romans 7:8, where it refers to everything or all people, emphasizing the universal nature of God's message.
Tyndale gloss
all
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word πᾶς (i.e., *pas*) means 'all' or 'every' and appears in various forms, including masculine, feminine, and neuter. It is used in the New Testament to denote totality, as in 'all things' or 'every kind,' and can function as an adjective or pronoun. Notably, it can also imply 'the whole' when used with definite articles, as seen in verses like Matthew 28:18.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

πᾶς, πᾶσα, πᾶν, gen., παντός, πάσης, παντός,

[in LXX chiefly for כֹּל;]

all, every.

As adj.,

c. subst. anarth., all, every, of every kind: Mt 3:10 4:23, Mk 9:49, Lk 4:37, Jo 2:10, Ac 27:20, Ro 7:8, Re 18:17, al. mult.; pl., all, Ac 22:15, Ro 5:12, He 1:6, al.; of the highest degree, π. ἐξουσία (προθυμία, χαρά), Mt 28:18,

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

πᾶς, πᾶσα, πᾶν, en. παντός, πάσης, παντός, [dat. plur. Lchm. πᾶσι ten times, -σιν seventy-two times; Tdf. -σι five times (see Proleg. p. 98 sq.), -ow seventy-seven times; Treg. -ow eighty-two times; WH -ox fourteen times, -ow sixty-eight times; see N, v (ἐφελκυστικόν)], Hebr. 75, [fr. Hom. down], all, every; it is used I. adjectively, and 1. with anarthrous nouns; a. any, every one (86. of the class denoted by the noun annexed to mas); with the Singular: as πᾶν δένδρον, Mt. iii. 10; πᾶσα θυσία, Mk. ix. 49 [T WH Tr mrg. om. Tr txt. br. the cl.]; add, Mt. v.11; xv. 13; Lk. iv. 37; Jn.ii. 10; xv.2; Acts ii.43; v.42; Ro. xiv. 11; 1 Co. iv. 17; Rev. xviii. 17, and very often; πᾶσα ψυχὴ ἀνθρώπου, Ro. ii. 9 (πᾶσα ἀνθρ. ψυχή, Plat. Phaedr. p- 249e.); πᾶσα συνείδησις ἀνθρώπων, 2 Co. iv. 2; mas λεγόμενος θεός, 2 Th. ii. 4; πᾶς ἅγιος ἐν Χριστῷ, Phil. iv. 21sqq. with the Plural, all or any that are…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

παῖς. In Gnomon 41 (¢. A.D. 150) it is laid down—éav Αἰγύπτιος ἐκ κοπρίας [ἀν]έληται παῖδα καὶ τοῦτον υἱοποιήσηται, μετὰ θάνατον τεταρτολο[ γεῖτ]αι, ““1Γ an Egyptian shall take up a child from the dungheap, and adopt him as a son, he shall be mulcted after his death to the extent of one fourth of his property.” For παῖς applied to a female child see P Strass I. 41° (A.D. 250) ἐκδικῆσαι τὰ τῆς παιδός, and P Oxy 1 5215 (A.D. 325) εΠδαμὲν τὴν παῖδα ἔχουσαν κατὰ τῶν εἰσχίων ἀμυχὰς μετὰ πελιωμάτων (see 76. II. p. 319), ““νγῈ saw that the girl had wounds on her hips with livid spots”: cf. Lk 8° (for voc. of address see Pro/eg. pp. 70, 235). The word is commonly applied to slaves, as in Lk 77 a/., e.g. P Lille 27 (iii/B.c.), where 11 male slaves are enumerated under the heading παῖδες, then 2 female slaves, and then again 3 male slaves: cf. P Strass I. 405 (a. p. 569) Κολλοῦθος Βίκτορος…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

πᾶς (pas) — all.

πᾶς, πᾶσα, πᾶν,

__AAeolic dialect παῖς, παῖσα [Refs 7th c.BC+] feminine πάνσα [Refs 8th c.BC+], Epic dialect and Delph. πάντεσσι [Refs 8th c.BC+]; also Locrian dialect πάντεσιν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πάντοις [Refs 2nd c.BC+] as accusative masculine in [LXX+7th c.BC+], etc. (but in compounds sometimes long in Attic dialect, [Refs].]—Coll. pronoun, when used of a number, all; when of one only, the whole; of the several persons in a number, every.

__A.I in plural, all, πάντες τε θεοὶ πᾶσαί τε θέαιναι [Refs 8th c.BC+]; πάντες ὅσοι.. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; πάντας ᾧ ἂνπεριτυγχάνῃ, for ὅσοις ἄν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: also with the Article, see.below [Refs 5th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

πᾶς

pas

including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all,

any, every, the whole:--all (manner of, means), alway(-s), any (one),

X daily, + ever, every (one, way), as many as, + no(-thing), X

thoroughly, whatsoever, whole, whosoever.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

πᾶς, πᾶσα, πᾶν

Adj

all, the whole, every kind of

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

πᾶς pas 1x

all; in the sg. the whole, entire, usually when the substantive has the article, Mt. 6:29; 8:32; Acts 19:26; every, only with an anarthrous subst., Mt. 3:10; 4:4; pl. all, Mt. 1:17, et al. freq.; πάντα, in all respects, Acts 20:35; 1 Cor. 9:25; 10:33; 11:2; by a Hebraism, a negative with πᾶς is sometimes equivalent to οὐδείς or μηδείς, Mt. 24:22; Lk. 1:37; Acts 10:14; Read the full entry →

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Adj-ASM — Adjective · accusative · singular · masculine
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

A-ASM Part of Speech: Adjective Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Masculine

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
62%all
all62% · 789×all things12% · 156×every12% · 150×everyone6% · 76×everything3% · 34×other renderings3% · 40×other renderings2% · 19×

1,264 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 28 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
subject40%adverbial30%object21%predicate5%indirect object3%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 1,242 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
αὐτόςσύλόγοςa word, speech,
ἐν
καίand, even, also,ἀλλάbut, exceptἐγώ
Article the
αὐτόςὅςArticle the
αὐτός
λέγωI say, speakδείκνυμιI point out, shoπροσφέρωI bring to, offe
ἐπί
καίand, even, also,ἐγώεἰμίI am, exist
πᾶςevery1242×
what comes after →
Article the
ἔθνοςa race, people, λαόςa people, the crπιστεύωI believe, have
καίand, even, also, nam
Article theχορτάζωI feed, satisfyδιά
σύ
εἰμίI am, existἐνκαίand, even, also,
γάρfor
Article theσύοὗτος
δέbut, on the other ha
Article theοὗτοςὅς

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceπᾶς · 1,242× in the New Testament
Acts Luke Matthew 1 Corinthians Romans Mark John Revelation Hebrews 2 Corinthians Ephesians Colossians

27 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The company it keepswords that stand beside it more often than chance
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria Josephus The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome Ignatius of Antioch
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 10c. AD 40

καὶ γὰρ πατὴρ ἐκγόνων καὶ δημιουργὸς τῶν δημιουργηθέντων στοχάζεται τῆς διαμονῆς καὶ ὅσα μὲν ἐπιζήμια καὶ βλαβερὰ μηχανῇ πάσῃ διωθεῖται, τὰ δὲ ὅσα ὠφέλιμα καὶ λυσιτελῆ κατὰ πάντα τρόπον ἐκπορίζειν ἐπιποθεῖ·

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.argc. AD 75–95

ὡς οἱ Νώχου ἔγγονοι πᾶσαν τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐπῴκησαν.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 2.4c. AD 100

πεφανέρωκεν γὰρ ἡμῖν διὰ πάντων τῶν προφητῶν, ὅτι οὕτε θυσιῶν οὔτε ὁλοκαυτωμάτων οὔτε προσφορῶν χρῄζει, λέγων ὅτε μέν:

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 6th c. AD 4th c. AD 1st c. AD
P.Stras. 2 89Pathyris100 BC

γῆ Σενπελαίας, βορρᾶ γῆ Πανᾶτος ἀπηλιώτου ποταμός, λιβὸς Ἀραμείους, ἢ οἳ ἂν ὦσι γείτονες πάντων πάντοθεν. ἐπρίατο Πετεαρσεμθεὺς Πανοβχούνιος ὡς ἐτῶν μ χαλκοῦ τάλαντα δύο . προπωλητὴς καὶ βεβαιωτὴς

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

ἐτῶν λ χαλκοῦ δραχμῶν τρισχιλίων . προπωληταὶ καὶ βεβαιωταὶ τῶν κατὰ τὴν ὠνὴν ταύτην πάντων Νεχούτης καὶ ὁ σὺν αὐτῷ οἱ ἀποδόμενοι, ὃν ἐδέξατο Πακοῖβις ὁ πριάμενος. Ἑρμίας ὁ

BGU 3 1000Pathyris99 BC

χαλκοῦ δραχμὰς δισχιλίας καὶ διακοσίας . προπωλητὴς καὶ βεβαιωτὴς τῶν κατὰ τὴν ὠνὴν ταύτην πάντων Πανοβχοῦνις ὁ ἀποδόμενος, ὃν ἐδέξατο Εὔνους ὁ πριάμενος. Ἑρμίας ὁ παρὰ Πανίσκου κεχρημάτικα.

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
καὶkai and G2532 Conjunction
8,978× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Hebrews as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
And or also, a connecting word used to join ideas or words, like in Matthew 2:18 and Hebrews 1:1.
Tyndale gloss
and
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

καί (kai) is a conjunction meaning 'and,' used to connect words, phrases, and clauses. It serves various functions, including copulative and adjunctive uses, and can express cumulative ideas like 'also' or 'even.' The New Testament frequently employs it to link terms and sentences, as seen in verses like Matthew 2:18 and John 10:3. Abbott-Smith notes its use in both simple and complex structures, while Thayer emphasizes its role as the most common particle in the New Testament.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

καί,

conj.,

and.

Copulative.

Connecting single words;

in general: Mt 2:18 16:1, Mk 2:15, Lk 8:15, He 1:1, al. mult.; repeated before each of the terms in a series, Mt 23:23, Lk 14:21, Ro 7:12 9:4, al.;

connecting numerals (WM, § 37, 4): Jo 2:20, Ac 13:20;

joining terms which are not mutually exclusive, as the part with the whole: Mt 8:33 26:59, Mk 16:17,

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

καί, a conj., and; the most freq. by far of all the particles in the N. T. [On its uses see W. § 53, 3sqq.; B. 361 (310) sqq., and ef. Ellicott on Phil. iv. 12; on the difference between it and τέ see 8. v. τέ ad init. ] I. It serves as a copulative i.e. to connect (Lat. et, atque, Germ. und) ; 1. it connects single words or terms: a. univ., as of Φαρισαῖοι καὶ Σαδδουκαῖοι, Mt. xvi. 1; ὁ θεὸς καὶ πατήρ, he who is God and Father (see θεός, 3); ἐν καρδίᾳ καλῇ καὶ ἀγαθῇ, Lk. viii. 15; πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως, ΗΘ}. 1. 1; it is repeated before single terms, to each of which its own force and weight is thus given: ἡ υἱοθεσία καὶ ἡ δόξα καὶ ai διαθῆκαι καὶ ἡ νομοθεσία καὶ ἡ λατρεία καὶ αἱ ἐπαγγελίαι, Ro. ix. 4 ; ἁγία καὶ δικαία καὶ ἀγαθή, Ro. vii. 12; add, Mt. xxiii. 23; Lk. xiv. 21; Jn. xvi. 8; Acts xv. 20, 29; xxi. 25; Heb. ix. 10; Rey. v. 12; xviii. 12 sq.; ef. W. 519 sq. (484). b. it…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

και. In LAE p. 129 ff. Deissmann discusses the thoroughly popular character of the Johannine style with its short paratactic sentences, introduced by kal. . . καί. To illustrate this, he cites amongst other exx. a Dream from the Serapeum, P Par 51 (B.C. 160) (= Selections, p. 18 ff. : see especially the amended readings in Archiv vi. p. 204), which runs—** ὦμ[ην] βατί -- δ)ίζειν pe [ἀπ]ὸ λειβὸς ἕως ἀ[ πηλι]ώτου, καὶ ἀναπίπτομαι ἐπ᾿ ἄχυρον" καὶ [ἄν]θρωπ[ος9] ἀπὸ λιβός μου, ἐχόμενός μου’ ἀναπίπτει καὶ αὐτός, καὶ ὥσπερ κεκλειμμ[évot] μου ἦσαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου, καὶ ἐξαί[φνης] ἀνύγω τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς pov, καὶ ὁρῶ kTA., “ I dreamed that I was going from West to East, and I lie down upon chaff. And there | αὐτὸ (deleted in the original) Σεμφθεῖ. | ἐκ καινῆς ἐν Σομολ(ῶ)…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

καί (kai) — and.

καί,

conjunction, copulative, joining words and sentences,

__A and; also adverb, even, also, just, frequently expressing emphatic assertion or assent, corresponding as positive to the negative οὐ (μή) or οὐδέ (μηδέ). copulative, and,

__A.I joining words or sentences to those preceding, ἦ, καὶ κυανέῃσιν ἐπ᾽ ὀφρύσινεῦσε Κρονίων [Refs 8th c.BC+]: repeated with two or more Nouns, αἱ δὲ ἔλαφοι κ. δορκάδες κ. οἱ ἄγριοι οἶες κ. οἱ ὄνοι οἱ ἄγριοι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; joining only the last pair, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὁ ὄχλος πλείων κ. πλείων ἐπέρρει more and more, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; to add epithets after πολύς, πολλὰ κ. ἐσθλά [Refs 8th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

καί

kai

apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also

a cumulative force; and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in

connection (or composition) with other particles or small words:--and,

also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when,

yet.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

καί

Cj.

and, even, also, namely

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

καί kai 9x

(1) and, Mt. 2:2, 3, 11; 4:22; (2) καί ... καί, both ... and; (3) as a cumulative particle, also, too, Mt. 5:39; Jn. 8:19; 1 Cor. 11:6; (4) emphatic, even, also, Mt. 10:30; 1 Cor. 2:10; in NT adversative, but, Mt. 11:19; also introductory of the apodosis of a sentence, Gal. 3:28; Jas. 2:4

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Conj — Conjunction
conjunction — it joins clauses, and never changes form.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

CONJ CONJunction or conjunctive particle

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
89%and
and89% · 8448×also8% · 714×other renderings2% · 191×other renderings1% · 124×

9,477 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 42 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial16%subject13%object10%predicate3%verb2%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 8,978 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
αὐτός
ἐνἐπίπρός
σύ
χάριςgrace, favor, kiπρόςπατήρfather, Father,
ἐγώ
πατήρfather, Father, πρόςθεόςGod, a god
εἰμίI am, exist
αὐτόςArticle theἐγώ
θεόςGod, a god
Article theθέλημαwill, wish, desiδέbut, on the othe
καίand8978×
what comes after →
Article the
ἀδελφόςa brotherπατήρfather, Father, μήτηρa mother
λέγωI say, speak
αὐτόςArticle theπρός
οὐNeg
εἰμίI am, existμήNegδύναμαιI am powerful, a
ὁράωI see, look upon, ex
Article theαὐτόςἀνήρa male human bei
ἐν
Article theπᾶςall, the whole, ὅλοςall, the whole,

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceκαί · 8,978× in the New Testament
Luke Matthew Revelation Acts Mark John 1 Corinthians Romans Hebrews 2 Corinthians Ephesians 1 John

3 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome Ignatius of Antioch
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 1c. AD 40

Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.argc. AD 75–95

ἡ τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.1c. AD 100

Χαίρετε, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἐν εἰρήνῃ.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 1st c. AD 6th c. AD
P.Stras. 2 89Pathyris100 BC

r βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν καὶ κανηφόρου τῶν

P.Adl. 11Pathyris99 BC

1 ἔτους ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν καὶ κανηφόρου τῶν

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
τὴνho the G3588 Article · accusative · singular · feminine
19,783× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Hebrews as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
The Greek word for 'the' or 'this', used to point out a specific person or thing, like in Acts 17:28. It can also mean 'he', 'she', or 'it'.
Tyndale gloss
the/this/who
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The definite article — the commonest word in the Greek New Testament at 19,867 occurrences. Greek uses it more freely than English does and can drop it deliberately, so its presence and its absence both carry weight for a translator; but no single occurrence carries a message of its own. Here it simply gathers “the things” into one definite bundle.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ὁ, ἡ, τό,

the prepositive article (ἄρθρον προτακτικόν), originally a demonstr. pron. (so usually in Hom.), in general corresponding to the Eng. definite article.

As demonstr. pron.

As freq. in Hom., absol., he (she, it), his (etc.): Ac 17:28 (quoted from the poet Aratus).

Distributive, ὁ μὲν . . . ὁ δέ, the one . . . the other: I Co 7:7, Ga 4:22; pl., Ac 14:4, 17:32, Phl 1:16, al.; οἱ μὲν . . . ἄλλοι δέ, Mt 16:14, Jo 7:12; οἱ μεν̀ . . . ὁ δέ, He 7:21, 23.

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ὁ 435 ὁ tives of quantity, ὅλος, πᾶς, πολύς, see each in its own place. d. What has been said concerning adjectives holds true also of all other limitations added to substantives, as ἡ κατ᾽ ἐκλογὴν πρόθεσις, Ro. ix. 11; ἡ παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ διαθήκη, Ro. xi. 27; 6 λόγος 6 τοῦ σταυροῦ, 1 Co. i. 18; ἡ εἰς Χριστὸν πίστις, Col. ii. 5; on the other hand, ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν ἡ πρὸς τὸν θεόν, 1 Th. i. 8; τῆς διακονίας τῆς εἰς τοὺς ἁγίους, 2 Co. viii. 4; see many other exx. of each usage in W. 131 (124) sqq.; [B. 91 (80) sqq.]. e. The noun has the article before it when a demonstrative pronoun (υὗτος, ἐκεῖνος) belonging to it either precedes or follows [W. § 18, 4; B. § 127, 29-31]; as, ὁ ἄνθρωπος οὗτος, Jn. ix. 24 [οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρ. 1, Tr mrg. WH); Acts vi. 13; xxii. 26; ὁ λαὸς οὗτος, Mt. xv. 8; 6 vids σου οὗτος, Lk. xv. 30; plur. Lk. xxiv. 17, and numberless other exx.; οὗτος 6 ἄνθρωπος, Lk. xiv. 30; οὗτος ὁ…

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ὃ, ἡ τό. (1) Apart from connexion with μέν or δέ (see below) the demonstrative use of the art. in the NT is confined to a poetical quotation Ac 1778, but it is not uncommon in the papyri, e.g. P Par 45® (B.C. 153) (= Witkowski®, p. 85) τὰ (for ἃ) πράσεις (Δ πράσσεις), P Oxy VIII. 1160! (iii/iv A.D.) Ta (for ἃ) σεσύλληχα (for συνείληχα) δὲ κέρμα {ταν τηρῶ αὐτὰ εἰς τὴν δίκην, “1 am keeping for the trial the money that I have collected” (Ed.). For the distributive Opéev.. - 6 8€, as in 1 Cor7’, cf. P Lond 535 (B.c. 161) (=I. p. 19, U.P.Z. i. p. 239) kal τὰ μὲν ἡμῶν ἐληφότων εἰς τὴν γινομένην ἡμῖν συντάξειν, τὰ δ᾽ ἔτι διὰ τὴν τῶν ὑποτεταγμένων {(.. ... > παρελκομένων. (2) The use of the art. as a relative, of which there is no trace in the NT, may again be illustrated by the following papyrus citations from ¢c. A.D. 346—P Lond 414® (= II. Ῥ. 292) γεινῴσκιν oe θέλω περὶ τοῦ βρεουίου…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ὁ (ho) — the/this/who.

ὁ,

ἡ, τό, is, when thus written,

__A demonstrative Pronoun.

__B in Attic dialect, definite or prepositive Article.

__C in Epic dialect, the so-called postpositive Article, = relative Pronoun, ὅς, ἥ, ὅ.—The nominative masculine and feminine singular and plural, ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ, have no accent in codices and most printed books, except when used as the relative; but ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ differ only in writing from ὃ, ἣ, οἳ, α; the nominative forms of the article are said by Hdn.Gr.1.474 to be oxytone, and by [Refs 2nd c.AD+] in Aeolic dialect accusative to [Refs 8th c.BC+] genitive and dative dual τοῖιν [Refs 8th c.BC+]— In Doric dialect and all other dialects except Attic dialect and Ionic dialect the feminine forms preserve the old ᾱ instead of changing it to η, hence Doric dialect etc. ἁ, τάν, τᾶ; the genitive plural τάων contracts in many dialects to τᾶ; the genitive…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ὁ ἡ τό

ho

he hay, and the neuter

to to

in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be

supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this, that, one,

he, she, it, etc.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ὁ, ἡ, τό

Article

the

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ὁ ho 19x

the prepositive article, answering, to a considerable extent, to the English definite article; but, for the principle and facts of its usage, consult a grammar; ὁ μὲν ... ὁ δέ, the one ... the other, Phil. 1:16, 17; Heb. 7:5, 6, 20, 21, 23, 24; pl. some ... others, Mt. 13:23; 22:5, 6; ὁ δέ, but he, Mt. 4:4; 12:48; οἱ δέ, but others, Mt. 28:17; used, in a poetic quotation, for a personal pronoun, Acts 17:28

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ὁ the, that

ὁ, ἡ, τό, is

demonstr. Pronoun.

the definite Article.

in epic, the relative Pronoun, when it is written with the accent ὅ, ἥ, τό ῀ ὅς, ἥ, ὅ. Besides the common forms, note epic gen. sg. τοῖο for τοῦ; pl. nom. τοί, ταί; gen. fem. τάων [α^], dat. τοῖσι, τῇς and τῇσι; dual gen, and dat. τοῖιν:— in Trag. we find τοὶ μέν . . , τοὶ δέ . . , for οἱ μέν . . , οἱ δέ . . ; dat. pl. also τοῖσι, ταῖσι: the dual has commonly but one gender, τώ for τά, τοῖν for ταῖν.

DEMONSTR. PRONOUN:

joined with a Subst., not as the Art., but like Lat. ille, ὁ Τυδείδης Tydeus's famous son, Il.; Νέστωρ ὁ γέρων Nestor— that aged man, id. Il.; τιμῆς τῆς Πριάμου for honour, namely that of Priam, id. Il.

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Art-ASF — Article · accusative · singular · feminine
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

T-ASF Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Feminine

English usagewhat the translators’ English meant
Webster's Dictionary (1828), Webster's Unabridged (1913), Webster's Dictionary (1806)

THE, an adjective or definitive adjective.

1. This adjective is used as a definitive, that is, before nouns which are specific or understood; or it is used to limit their signification to a specific thing or things, or to describe them; as the laws of the twelve tables. the independent tribunals of justice in our country, are the security or private rights, and the best bulwark against arbitrary power. the sun is the source of light and heat.

This he calls the preaching of the cross.

2. the is also used rhetorically before a noun in the singular number, to denote a species by way of distinction; a single thing representing the whole. the fig tree putteth forth her green figs; the almond tree shall flourish; the grasshopper shall be a burden.

3. In poetry, the sometimes loses the final vowel before another vowel.

Th' adorning thee with so much art,

Is but a barb'rous skill.

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
64%the
the64% · 13160×<the>28% · 5846×those3% · 597×other renderings4% · 788×other renderings1% · 294×

20,685 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 83 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
subject34%adverbial32%object24%predicate5%indirect object4%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 19,783 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
αὐτόςεἰμίI am, existἐγώ
ἐν
καίand, even, also,αὐτόςArticle the
εἰς
αὐτόςεἰσέρχομαιI go in, come inἔρχομαιI come, go
αὐτός
λέγωI say, speakδέbut, on the otheπρός
εἰμίI am, exist
οὗτοςσύἐγώ
the19783×
what comes after →
θεόςGod, a god
Article theκαίand, even, also,ἐγώ
δέbut, on the other ha
λέγωI say, speakἸησοῦςJesusἀποκρίνομαιI answer, reply
ἸησοῦςJesus
λέγωI say, speakκαίand, even, also,Article the
κύριοςlord, Lord, master,
ἐγώἸησοῦςJesusArticle the
πατήρfather, Father, ance
ἐγώσύαὐτός

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordance · 19,783× in the New Testament
Matthew Acts Luke John Revelation Mark Romans 1 Corinthians Hebrews 2 Corinthians Ephesians 1 John

40 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 1c. AD 40

Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.argc. AD 75–95

τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.1c. AD 100

Χαίρετε, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἐν εἰρήνῃ.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 1st c. AD 3rd c. BC 6th c. AD
P.Stras. 2 89Pathyris100 BC

r βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν

P.Adl. 11Pathyris99 BC

ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει Παθύρεως χαλκοῦ Γ. ἐπρίατο Ὧρος Νεχούτου.

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
εὐπερίστατονeuperistatos easily entangling G2139 Adjective · accusative · singular · feminine
1× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Hebrews than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means to surround or hinder someone. In Hebrews 12:1, it talks about sins that easily beset or surround us, hindering our progress.
Amplified meaning
besets, surrounds
Tyndale gloss
thwarting
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word εὐπερίστατος (*euperistatos*) is built from the prefix εὐ- (well) and a form of περίστημι (to stand around). It means 'easily besetting' or 'easily surrounding,' particularly in reference to sin, as noted in Hebrews 12:1. Moulton & Milligan highlight a potential connection to distress, suggesting various interpretations, including 'easily avoided' and 'dangerous.'

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

* εὐ-περί-στατος, -ον

(< εὖ, περιΐστημι),

of sins, readily besetting: He 12:1 (on form and sense of the word, v. Westc., in l.).†

Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

εὐπερίστατος. Deissmann’s reference (2S, p. 150) to the use of the subst. περίστασις in the evil sense of ‘‘distress,” ‘‘calamity,” as in 2 Macc 428, in the vernacular P Lond 42?! (B.c. 168) (=I. p. 30, Selections, p. 10) μηδ᾽ ἐνβεβλοφέναι eis τὴν ἡμετέραν περίστασιν, ‘nor spared a look for our miserable state,” may perhaps be taken as supporting Theophylact’s explanation of the compound adj. in Heb 12, ‘‘ because of which one easily falls into distresses (περιστάσεις). As against Westcott (Comm. ad /oc.), Moulton [G*. 11. § 106 (c)] has shown that there is nothing in the form of the verbal to forbid this interpretation, and he enumerates the various meanings as follows—(1) ‘‘ easily avoided,” (2) ‘* admired” (lit. ‘‘well-surrounded”’), (3) ‘‘ easily surrounding,” ‘‘ besetting,” or (4) ‘‘ dangerous ”’ (lit. ‘“‘ having easy distress…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

εὐπερίστατος (euperistatos) — thwarting.

εὐπερί-στᾰτος, ον,

easily besetting, ἁμαρτία [NT]; perhaps leading to distress, compare περίστασις; εὐπερίστατον, ={εὔκολον},{εὐχερῆ}, [Refs 5th c.AD+]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

εὐπερίστατος

euperistatos

from 2095 and a derivative of a presumed compound of 4012 and 2476;

well standing around, i.e. (a competitor) thwarting (a racer) in every

direction (figuratively, of sin in genitive case):--which doth so

easily beset.

see GREEK for 2095

see GREEK for 4012

see GREEK for 2476

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

εὐπερίστατος, ον

Adj

easily encircling

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

εὐπερίστατος euperistatos 1x

easily or constantly distracted, Heb. 12:1*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

εὐπερίστατος εὐ-περίστα^τος, ον περιστῆναι easily besetting, NTest.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Adj-ASF — Adjective · accusative · singular · feminine
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

A-ASF Part of Speech: Adjective Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Feminine

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
100%easily entangling
easily entangling100% · 1×

1 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 1 different way. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

Concordanceεὐπερίστατος · 1× in the New Testament
Hebrews
Across the New Testament1 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
ἁμαρτίαν,hamartia sin, G266 Noun · accusative · singular · feminine
173× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Hebrews than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
In the Bible, sin refers to missing the mark or falling short of God's standards, as seen in Romans. It's a principle of action that leads to guilt and fault. Jesus teaches about sin in various parables.
Amplified meaning
transgression, missing the mark
Tyndale gloss
sin
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ἁμαρτία (i.e., *hamartia*) primarily means 'sin' or 'failure to hit the mark.' It encompasses ethical wrongdoing and is used in the New Testament to describe both individual acts of sin and the overarching principle of sin as a dominating force in human life. Various lexicons note its use in contexts such as guilt and the nature of sin, with references in Romans and John highlighting its significance in Christian theology.

Trench, Synonyms of the New Testament — ἁμαρτία, ἁμάρτημα, παρακοή, ἀνομία, παρανομία, παράβασις, παράπτωμα, ἀγνόημα, ἥττημα from a scan

παράβασις, παράπτωμα, ἀγνόημα, ἥττημα. A MOURNFULLY numerous group of words, and one which it would be only too easy to make larger still. Nor is it hard to see why. For sin, which we may define in the 240 SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. ϑιυχνι. language of Augustine, as ‘ factum vel dictuin yel concuvitum aliquid contra eternam legem’ (Con. Faust. xxii. 27; cf. the Stoic definition, ἁμάρτημα, νόμου ἀπαγόρευμα, Plutarch, De Rep. Stoic. 11); or again, ‘ voluntas admittendi vel retinendi quod justitia vetat, et unde liberum est abstinere’ (Con. Jul. i. 47), may be regarded under an infinite number of aspects, and in all languages has been so regarded; and as the diagnosis of it belongs most of all to the Scriptures, nowhere else are we likely to find it contemplated on so many sides, set forth under such various images. It may be regarded as the missing of a mark or aim; it is then ἁμαρτία…

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Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἁμαρτία, -ας, ἡ

(< ἁμαρτάνω, q.v.),

[in LXX chiefly for חַטָּאת and cogn. forms, also for פֶּשַׁע ,עָוֹן, etc.;]

prop. a missing the mark; in cl. (v. reff. to CR in MM, VGT, s.v.);

guilt, sin (Plat., Arist., al.);

more freq., from Æsch. down, a fault, failure. In NT (as LXX) always in ethical sense;

as a principle and quality of action, = τὸ ἁμαρτάνειν, a sinning, sin: Ro 5:12, 13 20; ὑφ’ ἁμαρτίαν εἶναι, Ro 3:9; ἐπιμένειν, Ro 6:1; ἀποθνήσκειν, νεκρὸν εἶναι τῇ ἁ., Ro 6:2, 11; τὴν ἀ. γινώσκειν, Ro 7:7; σῶμα τῆς ἁ., Ro 6:6; ἀπάτη τῆς ἁ.,

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ἁμαρτία, -as, 9, (fr. 2 aor. ἁμαρτεῖν, as ἀποτυχία fr. ἀποτυχεῖν), a failing to hit the mark (see ἁμαρτάνω). In Grk. writ. (fr. Aeschyl. and Thue. down). 1st, an error of the understanding (cf. Ackermann, Das Christl. im Plato, p. 59 Anm. 3 [Eng. trans. (S. R. Asbury, 1861) Ρ. ὅΤ η. 997). 2d, a bad action, evil deed. In the N. T. always in an ethical sense, and 1. equiv. to τὸ ἁμαρravew α sinning, whether it occurs by omission or commission, in thought and feeling or in speech and actior (cf. Cie. de fin. 3, 9): Ro. v. 12 sq. 20; ὑφ᾽ ἁμαρτίαν εἶναι held down in sin, Ro. iii. 9; ἐπιμένειν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, Ro. Vi. 1; ἀποθνήσκειν τῇ dp. and ζῆν ἐν αὐτῇ, Ro. vi. 2; τὴν dp. γινώσκειν, Ro. vii. 7; 2 Co. v. 21; νεκρὸς τῇ dp. Ro. vi. 11; περὶ ἁμαρτίας to break the power of sin, Ro. viii. 3 [cf. Mey.]; σῶμα τῆς ἅμ. the body as the instrument of sin, Ro. vi. 6; ἀπάτη τῆς ἅμ. the craft by which sin is…

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ἁμαρτία. In an inscription of Cyzicus territory (JAS xxvii. (1907) p- 63), which F. ΝΥ. Hasluck supposes to belong to iii/B.c., we find ἁμαρτίαν μετανόει, and the word is also found in the interesting Sy// 633 151 (ii/a.p.) which illustrates so many NT words, ὃς ἂν [sic /eg.] δὲ πολυπραγμονήσῃ τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ ἢ περιεργάσηται, ἁμαρτίαν ὀφιλέτω Μηνὶ Τυράννωι, ἣν οὐ μὴ δύνηται ἐξειλάσασθαι. See also P Lips I. 119 vecfo® (A.D. 274) - - - τ]ῶν ἁμαρτιῶ[ν] τὰς πονηρίας συνεχῶς ἀ]νορθουμένων, P Oxy VIII. 1110}} (A.p. 254) αὐτὸς ὑπέσχετο ἀντὶ τῆς ἁμα]ρτίας, ἀγνοίας πρίόϊφασιν ὑποτειμησάμενος, ὑποστήσεσθαι τὸ [με]τὰ τοῦτο τὰς λειτουργίας. On the Greek conception of ἁμαρτία see CX XXV. pp. 195-7, and xxiv. pp. 88…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἁμαρτία (hamartia) — sin.

ἁμαρτ-ία, ἡ,

a failure, fault, τῶνδ᾽ ἁ. δόμων[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἁ. δόξης error of judgement, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. in Philos. and Religion, guilt, sin, [NT+5th c.BC+]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἁμαρτία

hamartia

from 264; a sin (properly abstract):--offence, sin(-ful).

see GREEK for 264

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἁμαρτία, ας, ἡ

n.f.

a sin

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἁμαρτία hamartia 173x

error; offence, sin, Mt. 1:21; a principle or cause of sin, Rom. 7:7; proneness to sin, sinful propensity, Rom. 7:17, 20; guilt or imputation of sin, Jn. 9:41; Heb. 9:26; a guilty subject, sin-offering, expiatory victim, 2 Cor. 5:21

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ἁμαρτία ἁμαρτάνω a failure, fault, sin, Aesch., etc.; ἁμ. τινός a fault committed by one, id. Aesch.; ἁμ. δόξης fault of judgment, Thuc.

generally, guilt, sin, Plat., Arist., NTest.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Noun-ASF — Noun · accusative · singular · feminine
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

N-ASF Part of Speech: Noun Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Feminine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
Easton's Bible Dictionary

Sin

Is “any want of conformity unto or transgression of the law of God” (1 John 3:4; Rom. 4:15), in the inward state and habit of the soul, as well as in the outward conduct of the life, whether by omission or commission (Rom. 6:12-17; 7:5-24). It is “not a mere violation of the law of our constitution, nor of the system of things, but an offence against a personal lawgiver and moral governor who vindicates his law with penalties. The soul that sins is always conscious that his sin is (1) intrinsically vile and polluting, and (2) that it justly deserves punishment, and calls down the righteous wrath of God. Hence sin carries with it two inalienable characters, (1) ill-desert, guilt (reatus); and (2) pollution (macula).”, Hodge’s…

Smith's Bible Dictionary

a city of Egypt, mentioned only by Ezekiel. (Ezekiel 30:15,16) The name is Hebrew, or at least Semitic, perhaps signifying clay . It is identified in the Vulgate with Pelusium, "the clayey or muddy" town. Its antiquity may perhaps be inferred from the mention of "the wilderness of Sin" in the journeys of the Israelites. (Exodus 16:1; Numbers 33:11) Ezekiel speaks of Sin as "Sin the strongholds of Egypt." (Ezekiel 30:15) This place was held by Egypt from that time until the period of the Romans. Herodotus relates that Sennacherib advanced against Pelusium, and that near Pelusium Cambyses defeated Psammenitus. In like manner the decisive battle in which Ochus defeated the…

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

1. Any thought, word, desire, action, or omission of action, contrary to the law of God, or defective when compared with it.

The origin of sin is a subject which baffles all investigation; and our inquiries are much better directed when we seek through Christ a release from its penalty and power, for ourselves and the world. Its entrance into the world, and infection of the whole human race, its nature, forms, and effects, and its fatal possession of every unregenerate soul, are fully described in the Bible, Ge 6:5 Ps 51:5 Mt 15:19 Ro 5:12 Jas 1:14,15.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

bush

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
53%sin
sin53% · 93×sins45% · 78×other renderings2% · 3×

174 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 4 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
object36%adverbial29%subject25%predicate8%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 173 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
Article the
σύἀπόἐν
περί
καίand, even, also,ἐγώκόσμοςthe world, unive
ἄφεσιςdeliverance, pardon,
εἰςἐνκαίand, even, also,
ἀφίημιI send away, release
γῆthe earth, soil,δύναμαιI am powerful, aἄνθρωποςa man, one of th
νόμοςa law, the Mosaic La
γάρforArticle theσάρξflesh, body
ἁμαρτίαsin,173×
what comes after →
αὐτός
καίand, even, also,Article theοὐNeg
σύ
DisjἀποθνῄσκωI am dying, am aἐάνCond
Article the
δέbut, on the otheκόσμοςthe world, univeθάνατοςdeath
καίand, even, also, nam
περίArticle theβλασφημίαabusive or scurr
οὐNeg
ἔχωI have, hold, poποιέωI do, makeγινώσκωI come to know,

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceἁμαρτία · 173× in the New Testament
Romans Hebrews 1 John John Luke Acts James Matthew 1 Peter Mark 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians

Every reference is on the Strong's page.

Across the New Testament20 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 294 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
The Shepherd of Hermas Josephus Clement of Rome Philo of Alexandria The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Confusion of Tongues 179c. AD 40

„ποιήσωμεν ἄνθρωπον“, ἵνα αἱ μὲν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου κατορθώσεις ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ἀναφέρωνται μόνον, ἐπ’ ἄλλους δὲ αἱ ἁμαρτίαι.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.48c. AD 75–95

Ἄδαμος δὲ παρῃτεῖτο τῆς ἁμαρτίας αὑτὸν καὶ παρεκάλει τὸν θεὸν μὴ χαλεπαίνειν αὐτῷ τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ γεγονότος αἰτιώμενος καὶ λέγων ὑπʼ αὐτῆς ἐξαπατηθεὶς ἁμαρτεῖν, ἡ δʼ αὖ κατηγόρει τοῦ ὄφεως.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 4.6c. AD 100

ἔτι δὲ καὶ τοῦτο ἐρωτῶ ὑμᾶς ὡς εἶς ἐξ ὑμῶν ὤν, ἰδίως δὲ καὶ πάντας ἀγαπῶν ὑπὲρ τὴν ψυχήν μου, προσέχειν νῦν ἑαυτοῖς καὶ μὴ ὁμοιοῦσθαί τισιν ἐπισωρεύοντας ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις ὑμῶν λέγοντας, ὅτι ἡ διαθήκη ἐκείνων καὶ ἡμῶν.

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6th c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 7th c. AD
P.Horak 25AD 211–AD 217

καὶ διὰ τὰ νει … … σθαι μηδ … … μάλιστα ἂν πειθαρχ … ἁμαρτίαν … εἶναι συνον

η … υ … προφάσει ἐνοχλεῖν ἡμῖν τε καὶ τοῖς ἑκασταχόθι ἄρχουσι … τῶν ἁμαρτίας καὶ πονηρίας συνεχῶς διορθουμένων. ἔτους … Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Σεουήρου Ἀντωνίνου Παρθικοῦ μεγίστου

P.Oxy. 8 1119OxyrhynchosAD 253

εὐλαβῶς ἔχων τὸν ἐπηρτημένον αὐτῷ ἐκ τοῦ παρανομήματος κίνδυνον … αὐτὸς ὑπέσχετο ἀντὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ἀγνοίας πρόφασιν ὑποτιμησάμενος, ὑποστήσεσθαι τὸ μετὰ τοῦτο τὰς λειτουργίας. ὅθεν καὶ νῦν ὑπὲρ τοῦ

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
δι᾽dia with G1223 Preposition
667× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Hebrews than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
Means through or because of, like in Matthew 2:12 where the wise men left by another route. It shows cause or occasion, as in 1 Corinthians 3:15, being saved through fire. It can also describe a state or condition, like in Romans.
Tyndale gloss
through/because of
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

διά (dia) is a preposition meaning 'through' and can govern both the genitive and accusative cases. It covers a range of uses, including indicating motion through space or time, causation, and means or instrumentality. In the New Testament, it appears in various contexts, such as in Matthew 2:12 and Romans 8:25. The lexicons do not present significant disagreement regarding its meanings.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

διά (before a vowel δ’, exc. Ro 8:10, II Co 5:7, and in pr. names; Tdf., Pr., 94),

prep. c. gen., acc, as in cl.;

c. gen., through;

of Place, after verbs of motion or action: Mt 2:12 12:43, Mk 2:23, Lk 4:30, Jo 4:4, II Co 11:33, al.; σώζεσθαι (διας-) δ. πυρός, ὕδατος, I Co 3:15, I Pe 3:20; βλέπειν δ. ἐσόπτρου, I Co 13:12; metaph., of a state or condition:

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

διὰ παντός [so L WH Tr (exc. Mk. ν. 5; Lk. xxiv. 53)], or written together διαπαντός [so GT (exe. in Mt.) ; ef. W. 46 (45); Lipsius, Gram. Unters. p. 125], continually, always: Mt. xviii. 10; Mk. ν. 5; Lk. xxiv. 53; Acts ii. 25 (fr. Ps. xv. (xvi.) 8); x. 2; xxiv. 16; Ro. xi. 10 (fr. Ps. Ixviii. (Lxix.) 24); 2 Th. iii. 16; Heb. ix. 6; xiii. 15, (often in Grk. writ.). b. of the time within which a thing is done: διὰ τῆς νυκτός (1, Τ Tr WH διὰ νυκτός), by night, Acts ν. 19; xvi. 9; xvii. 10; xxiii. 31, (Palaeph. 1,10); δύ ἡμερῶν τεσσαράκοντα, repeatedly within the space of forty days, Acts i. 3;— (denying this use of the prep., C. F. A. Fritzsche in Fritzschiorum Opusce. p. 164 sq. would refer these instances to the use noted under a. [see Win., Ellic., Mey. u. s.]). 2. of time elapsed, and which has, so to say, been passed through: Gal. ii. 1 [ef. W. 380 (356)]; δὲ ἡμερῶν, (some) days…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

διά (A.D. 58) ἀπεσχηκυῖαι [παρὰ τοῦ ᾿Αντ]ιφάνους διὰ χειρὸς [ἐϊξ οἴκου ὃ καὶ ἐπε[ίσθη]σαν κεφάλαιον, ‘have received from Antiphanes from hand to hand in cash the sum which they severally consented to accept ” (Edd.). Among other stereotyped phrases may be mentioned διὰ παντός, common in papyri as in Bibl. Greek in place of the obsolescent ἀεί : thus P Lond 42° (B.c. 168) (=I. p. 30, Selections Ὁ. 9) σοῦ διὰ παντὸς μνείαν ποιούμενοι, LGU IV. 1078* (A.p. 39) Σαραπίων Σαραπιάδι τῇ ἀδελφῇ πλεῖστα χαίρειν καὶ διὰ παντὸς ὑγιαίνειν. A rather different temporal use appears in διὰ νυκτός, “by night’ (Ac 519 etc.), as P Ryl II. 1381 (A.D. 34) κατέλαβα τοῦτον διὰ νυκτὸς ἡλμένον ἐξ ὑπερβατῶν els τὠιὸ τῆς οὐσίας ἐποίκιον Δρομήως λεγώμενου (7. ε. -όμενον), “ΕἼ detected him when under cover of night he had sprung into the farmstead” (Edd.): it is hard to imagine Fritzsche (see Grimm) arguing that here…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

διά (dia) — through/because of.

διά,

poetry διαί (Aeolic dialect ζά, which see), preposition governing genitive and accusative — Rad. sense, through; never anastrophic [Prop. δῐᾰ: but [Refs 8th c.BC+] uses ῑ at the beginning of a line, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: also ᾱ, for the sake of meter, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+] uses διαί in Lyric poetry, [Refs]

__A WITH GEN.

__A.I of Place or Space:

__A.I.1 of motion in a line, from one end to the other, right through, in [Refs 8th c.BC+] frequently of the effect of weapons, διὰ μὲν ἀσπίδος ἦλθε.. ἔγχος καὶ διὰ θώρηκος.. [Refs 8th c.BC+] out through the Scaean gate, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; δι᾽ ἠέρος αἰθέρ᾽ ἵκανεν quite through the lower air even to the ether, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; διὰ Τρώων πέτετο straight through them,[Refs 5th c.BC+]: also in Compos. with πρό and ἐκ, see at {διαπρό},{διέκ}: in adverbial phrases, διὰ πασῶν (i.e.…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

διά

dia

a primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through (in very

wide applications, local, causal, or occasional):--after, always,

among, at, to avoid, because of (that), briefly, by, for (cause) ...

fore, from, in, by occasion of, of, by reason of, for sake, that,

thereby, therefore, X though, through(-out), to, wherefore, with

(-in). In composition it retains the same general importance.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

διά

Prep.

through, on account of

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

διά dia 667x

(1) gen., through, used of place or medium, Mt. 7:13; Lk. 6:1; 2 Cor. 11:33; through, of time, during, in the course of, Heb. 2:15; Acts 5:19; through, of immediate agency, causation, instrumentality, by means of, by, Jn. 1:3; Acts 3:18; of means or manner, through, by, with, Lk. 8:4; 2 Cor. 5:7; 8:8; of state or condition, in a state of, Rom.…

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Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

διά through c. gen. through, by means of c. acc.

through.

WITH GEN.:

of Place or Space:

of motion in a line, through, right through, διὰ μὲν ἀσπίδος ἦλθε ἔγχος Il.; δι᾽ ἠέρος αἰθέρ᾽ ἵκανεν quite through the lower air even to the ether, id. Il.; διὰ πάντων ἐλθεῖν to go through all in succession, Xen.

of motion through a space, but not in a line, all through, over, διὰ πεδίοιο Il.; δι᾽ ἄστεος Od.

of Intervals of Space, διὰ δέκα ἐπάλξεων at every 10th battlement, Thuc.; διὰ πέντε σταδίων at a distance of 5 stades, Hdt.

of Time:

throughout, during, διὰ παντὸς τοῦ χρόνου Hdt.; δι᾽ ἡμέρης all day long, id. Hdt.; διὰ παντός continually, Aesch.; δι᾽ ὀλίγου for a short time, Thuc.

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Prep — Preposition
preposition — its sense depends on the case of the word it governs.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

PREP PREPosition

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
57%through
through57% · 391×because of22% · 153×on account of10% · 67×for2% · 14×the sake of2% · 14×other renderings6% · 44×

683 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 21 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial96%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 667 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
θεόςGod, a godπᾶςall, the whole, καυματίζωI burn, scorch
αὐτός
λέγωI say, speakμαθητήςa learner, disciἐνώπιονbefore the face
θεόςGod, a god
Article theδέbut, on the otheσοφόςwise
σύ
ἐνπρόςδίδωμιI offer, give
ἐγώ
καίand, even, also,εἶπονI say, speakἐνώπιονbefore the face
διάwith667×
what comes after →
Article the
λόγοςa word, speech, ὄνομαname, character,προφήτηςa prophet, poet
οὗτος
λέγωI say, speakArticle theκαίand, even, also,
ὅς
Article theαἰτίαa cause, reason,καίand, even, also,
αὐτός
Article theγίνομαιI come into beinκαίand, even, also,
τίςIrg
οὐNegArticle theμετά

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceδιά · 667× in the New Testament
Romans Acts John Matthew Hebrews 2 Corinthians 1 Corinthians Luke Mark Ephesians Galatians 1 Peter

Every reference is on the Strong's page.

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 663 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome Ignatius of Antioch
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 5c. AD 40

οὐ μὴν διὰ τοῦθ’ ἡσυχαστέον, ἀλλ’ ἕνεκα τοῦ θεοφιλοῦς καὶ ὑπὲρ δύναμιν ἐπιτολμητέον λέγειν, οἴκοθεν μὲν οὐδέν, ὀλίγα δ’ ἀντὶ πολλῶν, ἐφ’ ἃ τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην διάνοιαν φθάνειν εἰκὸς ἔρωτι καὶ πόθῳ σοφίας κατεσχημένην.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.4c. AD 75–95

τὸν μὲν γὰρ πρὸς τοὺς Ῥωμαίους πόλεμον ἡμῖν τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις γενόμενον καὶ τὰς ἐν αὐτῷ πράξεις καὶ τὸ τέλος οἷον ἀπέβη πείρᾳ μαθὼν ἐβιάσθην ἐκδιηγήσασθαι διὰ τοὺς ἐν τῷ γράφειν λυμαινομένους τὴν ἀλήθειαν,

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.7c. AD 100

ἐγνώρισεν γὰρ ἡμῖν ὁ δεσπότης διὰ τῶν προφητῶν τὰ παρεληλυθότα καὶ τὰ ἐνεστῶτα, καὶ τῶν μελλόντων δοὺς ἀπαρχὰς ἡμῖν γεύσεως, ὧν τὰ καθ̓ ἕκαστα βλέποντες ἐνεργούμενα, καθὼς ἐλάλησεν, ὀφείλομεν πλουσιώτερον καὶ ὑψηλότερον προσάγειν τῷ φόβῳ αὐτοῦ.

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2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 6th c. AD 4th c. AD 1st c. AD
P.Adl. 12Pathyris102 BC

ἀρουρῶν ἑπτὰ ἀρούρας τρεῖς · γείτονες μιᾶς μὲν νότου γῆ Πατήφιος, βορρᾶ γῆ Πακοίβιος διὰ τῶν Φίβιος υἱῶν, ἀπηλιώτου ὁδὸς βασιλική, λιβὸς γῆ Ψεμμώνθου τοῦ Πανεχάτου καὶ τῶν μετόχων,

P.Adl. 14Pathyris101 BC

ἐν σφραγῖσι δυσίν , ὧν γείτονες μιᾶς μὲν νότου γῆ Πατήφιος, βορρᾶ γῆ Πακοίβιος διὰ τῶν Φίβιος υἱῶν, ἀπηλιώτου ὁδὸς βασιλική, λιβὸς γῆ Ψεμμώνθου τοῦ Πανεχάτου καὶ τῶν μετόχων,

P.Amh. 2 51Pathyris89 BC

ἀπὸ ἀπηλιώτου μέρει Παθύρεως οἰκίαν ᾠκοδομημένην καὶ δεδοκωμένην καὶ τεθυρωμένην ἧς αἱ γειτνίαι δεδήλωνται διὰ τῆς ὠνῆς.

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
ὑπομονῆςhupomonē endurance G5281 Noun · genitive · singular · feminine
32× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Hebrews than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
Perseverance or endurance, like patiently waiting for something, as described in Luke 8:15 and Romans 5:3-4 where believers endure hardships with hope.
Amplified meaning
patience, perseverance
Tyndale gloss
perseverance
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

ὑπομονή is derived from ὑπομένω and means endurance or steadfastness. It encompasses patient waiting and the ability to withstand trials, often referenced in the New Testament, including in Luke and Romans. The lexicons note its use in both positive and negative contexts, with some suggesting a distinction between it and similar terms like μακροθυμία, though this distinction is debated.

Trench, Synonyms of the New Testament — μακροθυμία, ὑπομονή, ἀνοχή from a scan

BETWEEN μακροθυμία and ὑπομονή, which occur together at Col. i. 11, and in the same context 2 Cor. vi. 4,6 ; 2 Tim. iii. 10; Jam. v. 10, 11 (cf. Clement of Rome, 64 ; Ignatius, Hphes. 8), Chrysostom draws the following distinction ; that a man paxpoθυμεῖ, who having power to revenge himself, yet refrains from the exercise of this power ; while he ὑπομένει, who having no choice but to bear, and only the alternative of a patient or impatient bearing, has grace to choose theformer. Thus the faithful, he concludes, would commonly be called to exercise the former grace among themselves (1 Cor. vi. 7), the latter in their commerce with those that were without: μακροθυμίαν πρὸς ἀλλήλους, ὑπομονὴν πρὸς τοὺς ἔξω" μακροθυμεῖ γάρ τις πρὸς ἐκείνους οὺς δυνατὸν καὶ ἀμύνασθαι, ὑπομένει δὲ ods οὐ δύναται ἀμύνασθαι. This distinction, however, will not endure a closer examination ; for see decisively…

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Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ὑπο-μονή, -ῆς, ἡ

(ὑπομένω)

[in LXX for מִקְוֶה and cogn. forms; freq. in IV Mac ;]

a remaining behind (Arist.).

patient enduring, endurance: Lk 8:15 21:19, Ro 5:3, 4 15:4, 5, II Co 6:4 12:12, Col 1:11, II Th 1:4, I Ti 6:11, II Ti 3:10, Tit 2:2, He 10:36, Ja 1:3, 4 5:11, II Pe 1:6, Re…

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ὑπο-μονή, -7s, ἡ, (ὑπομένω) ; 1. steadfastness, constancy, endurance, (Vulg. in 1 Th. i. 3 sustinentia, in Jas. v. 11 sufferentia); in the N. T. the characteristic of a man who is unswerved from his deliberate purpose and his loyalty to faith and piety by even the greatest trials and sufferings: Lk. viii. 15; xxi. 19; Ro. v. 3 sq.; xv. 4 βα.; 2 Co. vi. 4; xii. 12; Col. i. 11; 2 Th.i.4; 1 Tim. vi. 11; 2 Tim. iii.10; Tit. ii. 2; Heb. x. 36; Jas. i. 3sq.; v.11; 2 Pet.i.6; Rev. ii. 2 sq. 19; xiii. 10; xiv. 12, (ef. 4 Mace. i. 11; ix. 8, 30; xv. 30 (27); xvii. 4, 12, 23); with agen. of the thing persevered in [W. § 30, 1 fin.]: τοῦ ἔργου ἀγαθοῦ, Ro. ii. 7; τῆς ἐλπίδος, 1 Th. i. 3 [ef. B. 155 (136)]; δὲ ὑπομονῆς, [with patience (cf. W. § 51, 1b.) 1. 6.1 patiently and steadfastly, Ro. viii. 25; Heb. xii. 1. 2. a patient, steadfast waiting for; [8]. question this sense in the New Test., and…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

ὑπομονή, τ ρξαάίαξε endurance,” denoting ‘‘an inward feeling, as well as outward conduct, but directed only towards aggression” (Hort ad Rev 25: cf. also Lightfoot /Vofes, p. 11, and Ropes 700 ad Jas 1%). Hence in late Jewish literature the word is frequently applied to the virtue shewn by martyrs, e.g. 4 Macc 11} θαυμασθέντες . . . ἐπὶ τῇ ἀνδρίᾳ καὶ τῇ ὑπομονῇ : cf Pss. Sol. ii. 40 ὅτι χρηστὸς 6 κύριος τοῖς ἐπικαλουμένοις αὐτὸν ἐν ὑπομονῇ. In Zest. χἕΐ. ῥαΐγ. Jos. x. I ὁρᾶτε. .. πόσα κατεργάζεται ἡ ὑπομονή, the reference is to resistance to the wiles of the Egyptian woman.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ὑπομονή (hupomonē) — perseverance.

ὑπομονή, ἡ,

remaining behind, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

II. endurance, τῶν ἀκουσίων πόνων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; [θανάτου] [Refs 1st c.AD+]; ἡ τῆς μαχαίρας ὑ. τῶν πληγῶν the sword's power to sustain blows, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]

II.2. in bad sense, obstinacy, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]

II.3. of plants, power to endure, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

III. enduring to do, αἰσχρῶν ἔργων [Refs]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

ὑπομονή

hupomone

from 5278; cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy:--enduring,

patience, patient continuance (waiting).

see GREEK for 5278

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ὑπομονή, ῆς, ἡ

n.f.

endurance, steadfastness

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ὑπομονή hypomonē 32x

patient endurance, 2 Cor. 12:12; Col. 1:11; patient awaiting, Lk. 21:19; a patient frame of mind, patience, Rom. 5:3, 4; 15:4, 5; Jas. 1:3; perseverance, Rom. 2:7; endurance in adherence to an object, 1 Thess. 1:3; 2 Thess. 3:5; Rev. 1:9; ἐν ὑπομονῇ and δι’ ὑπομονῆς, constantly, perseveringly, Lk. 8:15; Read the full entry →

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ὑπομονή ὑπομονή, ἡ, ὑπομένω a remaining behind, Arist.

a holding out, patient endurance, id. Arist.:— the enduring to do, αἰσχρῶν ἔργων Theophr.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Noun-GSF — Noun · genitive · singular · feminine
genitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

N-GSF Part of Speech: Noun Case: Genitive Number: Singular Gender: Feminine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
Nave's Topical Bible

→ See PERSEVERANCE

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
63%endurance
endurance63% · 20×perseverance25% · 8×patient endurance6% · 2×patience3% · 1×steadfastness3% · 1×

32 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 5 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial47%object34%subject19%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 32 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
Article the
καίand, even, also,ἀγάπηloveἐν
ἐν
καρποφορέωI bear fruitἐνεργέωI work, accompliδιάκονοςa waiter, servan
δέbut, on the other ha
Article the
διά
ἐλπίζωI hope, hope forἁμαρτίαa sin
πᾶςall, the whole, ever
ἐνεἰς
ὑπομονήendurance32×
what comes after →
Article the
αὐτόςἐλπίςhope, expectatioΧριστόςanointed, the Me
σύ
καίand, even, also,κτάομαιI win, get, buy,
καίand, even, also, nam
Article theδιάμακροθυμίαpatience, forbea
ἔργονwork, labor, action,
ἀγαθόςgoodτέλειοςperfect, full-gr
ἐν
δέbut, on the otheἸησοῦςJesus

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceὑπομονή · 32× in the New Testament
Revelation Romans 2 Corinthians James 2 Peter 2 Thessalonians Hebrews Luke 1 Thessalonians 1 Timothy 2 Timothy Colossians
Across the New Testament13 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 4 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria Ignatius of Antioch Clement of Rome Polycarp The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Cherubim 78c. AD 40

τλῆναι γὰρ ἔδει καὶ ἀντιτάξασθαι καὶ ἀντερείσασθαι γνώμην ὀχυρωσάμενον καὶ ἀναφραξάμενον τῇ ἑαυτοῦ καρτερίᾳ καὶ ὑπομονῇ, δυνατωτάταις ἀρεταῖς.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 2.7c. AD 75–95

οὐδενὸς γὰρ ὅλως ὑστέρουν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸς ἔργα χειρῶν καὶ πόνων ὑπομονὴν ἦσαν εὔψυχοι καὶ δεινοὶ συνιέναι.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 2.2c. AD 100

τῆς οὖν πίστεως ἡμῶν εἰσιν βοηθοὶ φόβος καὶ ὑπομονή, τὰ δὲ συμμαχοῦντα ἡμῖν μακροθυμία καὶ ἐγκράτεια:

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
τρέχωμενtrechō may run G5143 Verb · present · active · subjunctive · first person · plural
20× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Hebrews as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means to run or walk hastily, used in passages like Mark 5:6 and John 20:2 to describe physical movement. It can also be used metaphorically to describe effort or swiftness, as in Romans 9:16 and Galatians 2:2.
Amplified meaning
walk hastily, persevere
Tyndale gloss
to run
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

τρέχω (trechō) means 'to run' and is used both literally and metaphorically in various contexts. It can refer to physical running, as seen in Mark 5:6 and John 20:2, or to striving towards a goal, as in Romans 9:16 and Galatians 5:7. The word is built from the root related to running and includes various compound forms. Notably, it appears in the metaphor of a race in Hebrews 12:1.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

τρέχω

[in LXX chiefly for רוּץ ;]

to run: Mk 5:6, Jo 20:2, 4, I Co 9:24, 26; c. inf., Mt 28:8; seq. ἐπί, Lk 24:12 [T |[WH]| R, mg., om.]; εἰς, Re 9:9; ptcp., δραμών, c. indic., Mt 27:48, Mk 15:36, Lk 15:20. Metaph., from runners in a race, of swiftness or of effort to attain an end: Ro 9:16, Ga 2:2 5:7, Phl 2:16; τ. ἀγῶνα (Hdt., Eur., al.), Read the full entry →

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

τρέχω ; impf. ἔτρεχον ; 2 aor. ἔδραμον ; fr. Hom. down; Sept. for y95 torun; a. prop.: of persons in haste, Mk. v. 6; Jn. xx. 2,4; with a telic inf. Mt. xxviii. 8; δραμών with a finite verb, Mt. xxvii. 48; Mk. xv. 36; Lk. xv. 20; τρέχω ἐπί with an ace. of place, Lk. xxiv. 12[T om. LTr br. WH reject the vs.]; εἰς πόλεμον, Rey. ix. 9; of those who run in a race-course (ἐν σταδίῳ), 1 Co. ix. 24, 26. b. metaph.: of doctrine rapidly propagated, 2 Th. iii. 1[R.V. run]; by a metaphor taken from the runners in a race, to exert one’s self, strive hard; to spend one’s strength in performing or attaining something: Ro. ix. 16; Gal. v. 7; εἰς κενόν, Gal. ii. 2 [W. 504 (470); B. § 148, 10]; Phil. ii. 16; τὸν ἀγῶνα, Heb. xii. 1 (see ἀγών, 2); the same expression occurs in Grk. writ., denoting to incur extreme peril, which it requires the exertion of all one’s efforts to overcome, Hat. 8, 102; Eur.…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

τρέχω in the lit. sense ‘‘ run” occurs in a criminal process of an Alexandrian gymnasiarch before the Emperor Commodus, P Oxy I. 33 versoiii12 (= Chrest. I. p. 35) © ἠβό[κατο]ς εὐθὺς δραμὼν παρέθετο [τῷ] κυρίῳ λέγων, “‘Kipte, κάθῃ, “Ῥωμαῖοι γονγύζο[υσ]ι,᾿ “the veteran forthwith ran and told his lord, saying, ‘ Lord, while you are sitting in judgment, the Romans are murmuring.’’” The same document shows τρέχω in its derived sense ‘‘ strive” —! 1 τρέχε, τέκνον, τελεύτα. κλέος σοί ἐστιν ὑπὲρ τῆς γλυκυτάτης σου πατρίδος τελευτῆσαι, ‘onward, my son, to death, it is a glory for you to die for your beloved country” (Edd.). See also P Lond 1307? (horoscope—i/ii A.D.) (=I. p. 135) μοίρας ἔτρεχε δεκατρεῖς, and J/enandrea p. 73} ἵν᾿ ἀναπηδήσας τρέχῃ, ‘‘that he might jump up and come at a run.” We may add a wooden tablet, apparently for school use, published in Afé/. Weco/e p. 181 (= Katbel Praef.…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

τρέχω (trechō) — to run.

τρέχω,

[Refs 8th c.BC+]future θρέξομαι (ἀπο-) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; θρέξω only in [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; but ἀπο-θρέξεις [Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist 1 ἔθρεξα (see. below):—but the usual future and aorist come from the root δραμ-, i.e. δρᾰμοῦμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect δραμέομαι [LXX+6th c.BC+]; δράμομαι in compound ἀναδράμεται [Refs 1st c.AD+]aorist 2 ἔδρᾰμον (see. below): perfect δεδράμηκα [ᾰ] [Refs 5th c.BC+]pluperfect ἐδεδραμήκεσαν (κατ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+]perfect δέδρομα (ἀνα-, ἐπι-) [Refs 8th c.BC+] —passive, perfect δεδράμημαι (ἐπι-) [Refs 5th c.BC+]—The Verb is not common in [Refs 8th c.BC+], who has present in [Refs 8th c.BC+] was also old Attic dialect, epigram cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; but the common aorist was ἔδραμον, [Refs 8th c.BC+]—Doric dialect τράχω [ᾰ] [Refs 5th c.BC+]: future θραξοῦμαι [Refs 5th c.AD+]:—run, of men, ἰθὺς δράμε [Refs 8th…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

τρέχω

trecho

apparently a primary verb (properly, threcho; compare 2359); which

uses dremo drem'-o (the base of 1408) as alternate in certain tenses;

to run or walk hastily (literally or figuratively):--have course, run.

see GREEK for 2359

see GREEK for 1408

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

τρέχω

v.

I run, exercise myself

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

τρέχω trechō 20x

to run, Mt. 27:48; 28:8; to run a race, 1 Cor. 9:24; met. 1 Cor. 9:24, 26; Heb. 12:1; in NT to run a certain course of conduct, Gal. 5:7; to run a course of exertion, Rom. 9:16; Gal. 2:2; Phil. 2:16; to run, to progress freely, to advance rapidly, 2 Thess. 3:1

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

τρέχω δραμοῦμαι and ἔδραμον from Root ΔΡΕΜ or ΔΡΑΜ to run, Lat. curro, Hom., etc.:—of horses, Il.:—of things, to run, move quickly, Hom., etc.

c. acc. loci, to run over, Eur., Xen.

c. acc. cogn., τρ. δρόμον, ἀγῶνα to run a course, a heat, Eur., etc.: often metaph., ἀγῶνα δρ. to run a risk, id. Eur.; πολλοὺς ἀγῶνας δραμεῖν περὶ σφέων αὐτέων to run many risks for their lives, Hdt.:—sometimes the acc. is omitted, τρ. περὶ ἑωυτοῦ to run the risk of his life, id. Eur.; τρ. περὶ τῆς νίκης Xen.

παρ᾽ ἓν πάλαισμα ἔδραμε νικᾶν he was within one bout of carrying off the victory, Hdt.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-PAS-1P — Verb · present · active · subjunctive · first person · plural
present active subjunctive — an action in progress.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-PAS-1P Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Present Voice: Active Mood: Subjunctive Person: first Number: Plural

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
15%running
running15% · 3×having run15% · 3×run10% · 2×he ran10% · 2×do run5% · 1×i may be running5% · 1×have run5% · 1×you were running5% · 1×other renderings30% · 6×

20 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 14 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
verb95%adverbial5%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 20 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
οὕτωthus, so, in this ma
βραβεῖονa prizeτοίνυνDisj
κενόςempty, vain, hollow
εἰς
εὐθέωςimmediately, soon
καίand, even, also,
μέγας
χαράjoy, gladness
μακρόθενfrom a distance
ἀπό
τρέχωmay run20×
what comes after →
εἷςone
ἐκδέbut, on the othe
καίand, even, also, nam
προσκυνέωI worshipδοξάζωI glorify, honor
δέbut, on the other ha
τὶςArticle the
ἀπαγγέλλωI report, bring a re
Article the
ἐπιπίπτωI fall upon, press u
ἐπί

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceτρέχω · 20× in the New Testament
1 Corinthians Galatians John Luke Matthew Mark 2 Thessalonians Hebrews Philippians Revelation Romans
Across the New Testament11 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 25 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria Polycarp
Philo of AlexandriaOn Joseph 200c. AD 40

κατευξάμενος δ’ ἐκείνῳ καὶ θεοφιλέστατον προσειπών, τὸν ὁμομήτριον περιβλεψάμενος ἀδελφὸν ὡς εἶδεν, οὐ κατασχὼν ἀλλ’ ἤδη νικώμενος ὑπὸ τοῦ πάθους, πρὶν γενέσθαι καταφανής, ἐπιστρέφεται καὶ δραμὼν πρόφασιν ἐπί τι τῶν κατεπειγόντων—ἐκλαλῆσαι γὰρ…

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 6.14c. AD 75–95

θέρους γὰρ ὥρᾳ πάντες ἐπὶ τὴν συγκομιδὴν τῶν καρπῶν ἐν ταῖς ἀρούραις ὑπάρχοντες ὡς εἶδον τὴν κιβωτὸν ὑφʼ ἡδονῆς ἁρπαγέντες καὶ τὸ ἔργον ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν ἀφέντες ἔδραμον εὐθὺς ἐπὶ τὴν ἅμαξαν.

PolycarpPolycarp to the Philippians 9.2c. AD 110

πεπεισμένους ὅτι οὗτοι πάντες οὐκ εἰς κενὸν ἔδραμον, ἀλλ̓ ἐν πίστει καὶ δικαιοσύνῃ, καὶ ὅτι εἰς τὸν ὀφειλόμενον αὐτοῖς τόπον εἰσὶ παρὰ τῷ κυρίῳ, ᾧ καὶ συνέπαθον.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
3rd c. BC
P.Col. 4 115 eArsinoites (?)276 BC–227 BC

χαίρειν. … ν πωλεῖσθαι … ἐν Κροκοδίλων πόλει χόρτον. καλῶς οὖν ποιήσεις … αν δραμὼν περὶ τῆς … … … … … ἵπποι τ … … ολωι … ἀπεστείλαμεν

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
τὸνho the G3588 Article · accusative · singular · masculine
19,783× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Hebrews as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
The Greek word for 'the' or 'this', used to point out a specific person or thing, like in Acts 17:28. It can also mean 'he', 'she', or 'it'.
Tyndale gloss
the/this/who
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The definite article — the commonest word in the Greek New Testament at 19,867 occurrences. Greek uses it more freely than English does and can drop it deliberately, so its presence and its absence both carry weight for a translator; but no single occurrence carries a message of its own. Here it simply gathers “the things” into one definite bundle.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ὁ, ἡ, τό,

the prepositive article (ἄρθρον προτακτικόν), originally a demonstr. pron. (so usually in Hom.), in general corresponding to the Eng. definite article.

As demonstr. pron.

As freq. in Hom., absol., he (she, it), his (etc.): Ac 17:28 (quoted from the poet Aratus).

Distributive, ὁ μὲν . . . ὁ δέ, the one . . . the other: I Co 7:7, Ga 4:22; pl., Ac 14:4, 17:32, Phl 1:16, al.; οἱ μὲν . . . ἄλλοι δέ, Mt 16:14, Jo 7:12; οἱ μεν̀ . . . ὁ δέ, He 7:21, 23.

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ὁ 435 ὁ tives of quantity, ὅλος, πᾶς, πολύς, see each in its own place. d. What has been said concerning adjectives holds true also of all other limitations added to substantives, as ἡ κατ᾽ ἐκλογὴν πρόθεσις, Ro. ix. 11; ἡ παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ διαθήκη, Ro. xi. 27; 6 λόγος 6 τοῦ σταυροῦ, 1 Co. i. 18; ἡ εἰς Χριστὸν πίστις, Col. ii. 5; on the other hand, ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν ἡ πρὸς τὸν θεόν, 1 Th. i. 8; τῆς διακονίας τῆς εἰς τοὺς ἁγίους, 2 Co. viii. 4; see many other exx. of each usage in W. 131 (124) sqq.; [B. 91 (80) sqq.]. e. The noun has the article before it when a demonstrative pronoun (υὗτος, ἐκεῖνος) belonging to it either precedes or follows [W. § 18, 4; B. § 127, 29-31]; as, ὁ ἄνθρωπος οὗτος, Jn. ix. 24 [οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρ. 1, Tr mrg. WH); Acts vi. 13; xxii. 26; ὁ λαὸς οὗτος, Mt. xv. 8; 6 vids σου οὗτος, Lk. xv. 30; plur. Lk. xxiv. 17, and numberless other exx.; οὗτος 6 ἄνθρωπος, Lk. xiv. 30; οὗτος ὁ…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

ὃ, ἡ τό. (1) Apart from connexion with μέν or δέ (see below) the demonstrative use of the art. in the NT is confined to a poetical quotation Ac 1778, but it is not uncommon in the papyri, e.g. P Par 45® (B.C. 153) (= Witkowski®, p. 85) τὰ (for ἃ) πράσεις (Δ πράσσεις), P Oxy VIII. 1160! (iii/iv A.D.) Ta (for ἃ) σεσύλληχα (for συνείληχα) δὲ κέρμα {ταν τηρῶ αὐτὰ εἰς τὴν δίκην, “1 am keeping for the trial the money that I have collected” (Ed.). For the distributive Opéev.. - 6 8€, as in 1 Cor7’, cf. P Lond 535 (B.c. 161) (=I. p. 19, U.P.Z. i. p. 239) kal τὰ μὲν ἡμῶν ἐληφότων εἰς τὴν γινομένην ἡμῖν συντάξειν, τὰ δ᾽ ἔτι διὰ τὴν τῶν ὑποτεταγμένων {(.. ... > παρελκομένων. (2) The use of the art. as a relative, of which there is no trace in the NT, may again be illustrated by the following papyrus citations from ¢c. A.D. 346—P Lond 414® (= II. Ῥ. 292) γεινῴσκιν oe θέλω περὶ τοῦ βρεουίου…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ὁ (ho) — the/this/who.

ὁ,

ἡ, τό, is, when thus written,

__A demonstrative Pronoun.

__B in Attic dialect, definite or prepositive Article.

__C in Epic dialect, the so-called postpositive Article, = relative Pronoun, ὅς, ἥ, ὅ.—The nominative masculine and feminine singular and plural, ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ, have no accent in codices and most printed books, except when used as the relative; but ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ differ only in writing from ὃ, ἣ, οἳ, α; the nominative forms of the article are said by Hdn.Gr.1.474 to be oxytone, and by [Refs 2nd c.AD+] in Aeolic dialect accusative to [Refs 8th c.BC+] genitive and dative dual τοῖιν [Refs 8th c.BC+]— In Doric dialect and all other dialects except Attic dialect and Ionic dialect the feminine forms preserve the old ᾱ instead of changing it to η, hence Doric dialect etc. ἁ, τάν, τᾶ; the genitive plural τάων contracts in many dialects to τᾶ; the genitive…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ὁ ἡ τό

ho

he hay, and the neuter

to to

in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be

supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this, that, one,

he, she, it, etc.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ὁ, ἡ, τό

Article

the

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ὁ ho 19x

the prepositive article, answering, to a considerable extent, to the English definite article; but, for the principle and facts of its usage, consult a grammar; ὁ μὲν ... ὁ δέ, the one ... the other, Phil. 1:16, 17; Heb. 7:5, 6, 20, 21, 23, 24; pl. some ... others, Mt. 13:23; 22:5, 6; ὁ δέ, but he, Mt. 4:4; 12:48; οἱ δέ, but others, Mt. 28:17; used, in a poetic quotation, for a personal pronoun, Acts 17:28

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ὁ the, that

ὁ, ἡ, τό, is

demonstr. Pronoun.

the definite Article.

in epic, the relative Pronoun, when it is written with the accent ὅ, ἥ, τό ῀ ὅς, ἥ, ὅ. Besides the common forms, note epic gen. sg. τοῖο for τοῦ; pl. nom. τοί, ταί; gen. fem. τάων [α^], dat. τοῖσι, τῇς and τῇσι; dual gen, and dat. τοῖιν:— in Trag. we find τοὶ μέν . . , τοὶ δέ . . , for οἱ μέν . . , οἱ δέ . . ; dat. pl. also τοῖσι, ταῖσι: the dual has commonly but one gender, τώ for τά, τοῖν for ταῖν.

DEMONSTR. PRONOUN:

joined with a Subst., not as the Art., but like Lat. ille, ὁ Τυδείδης Tydeus's famous son, Il.; Νέστωρ ὁ γέρων Nestor— that aged man, id. Il.; τιμῆς τῆς Πριάμου for honour, namely that of Priam, id. Il.

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Art-ASM — Article · accusative · singular · masculine
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

T-ASM Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Masculine

English usagewhat the translators’ English meant
Webster's Dictionary (1828), Webster's Unabridged (1913), Webster's Dictionary (1806)

THE, an adjective or definitive adjective.

1. This adjective is used as a definitive, that is, before nouns which are specific or understood; or it is used to limit their signification to a specific thing or things, or to describe them; as the laws of the twelve tables. the independent tribunals of justice in our country, are the security or private rights, and the best bulwark against arbitrary power. the sun is the source of light and heat.

This he calls the preaching of the cross.

2. the is also used rhetorically before a noun in the singular number, to denote a species by way of distinction; a single thing representing the whole. the fig tree putteth forth her green figs; the almond tree shall flourish; the grasshopper shall be a burden.

3. In poetry, the sometimes loses the final vowel before another vowel.

Th' adorning thee with so much art,

Is but a barb'rous skill.

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
64%the
the64% · 13160×<the>28% · 5846×those3% · 597×other renderings4% · 788×other renderings1% · 294×

20,685 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 83 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
subject34%adverbial32%object24%predicate5%indirect object4%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 19,783 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
αὐτόςεἰμίI am, existἐγώ
ἐν
καίand, even, also,αὐτόςArticle the
εἰς
αὐτόςεἰσέρχομαιI go in, come inἔρχομαιI come, go
αὐτός
λέγωI say, speakδέbut, on the otheπρός
εἰμίI am, exist
οὗτοςσύἐγώ
the19783×
what comes after →
θεόςGod, a god
Article theκαίand, even, also,ἐγώ
δέbut, on the other ha
λέγωI say, speakἸησοῦςJesusἀποκρίνομαιI answer, reply
ἸησοῦςJesus
λέγωI say, speakκαίand, even, also,Article the
κύριοςlord, Lord, master,
ἐγώἸησοῦςJesusArticle the
πατήρfather, Father, ance
ἐγώσύαὐτός

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordance · 19,783× in the New Testament
Matthew Acts Luke John Revelation Mark Romans 1 Corinthians Hebrews 2 Corinthians Ephesians 1 John

40 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 1c. AD 40

Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.argc. AD 75–95

τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.1c. AD 100

Χαίρετε, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἐν εἰρήνῃ.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 1st c. AD 3rd c. BC 6th c. AD
P.Stras. 2 89Pathyris100 BC

r βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν

P.Adl. 11Pathyris99 BC

ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει Παθύρεως χαλκοῦ Γ. ἐπρίατο Ὧρος Νεχούτου.

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
προκείμενονprokeimai lying before G4295 Verb · present · no voice stated · participle · accusative · singular · masculine
5× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Hebrews than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
To set before or be present in someone's mind, as in Hebrews 6:18 and 12:1-2 where examples are set forth. This word means to be an example or to present oneself. It's about being a model or a representation.
Amplified meaning
laid before, proposed
Tyndale gloss
to set before
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

πρόκειμαι (prokeimai) is built from the prefix πρό meaning 'before' and κεῖμαι meaning 'to lie.' It covers meanings such as being set before someone, being present, or proposed as an example or reward. In the New Testament, it appears in Hebrews 6:18, 12:1-2, and Jude 7, where it conveys the idea of something being presented or set forth.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

πρό-κειμαι,

[in LXX: Ex 39:18 (36), Nu 4:7 (פָּנִים), etc.;]

used as pass. of προτίθημι;

to be set before one, to be set forth: He 6:18 12:1, 2, Ju 7.

to present oneself, be present: II Co 8:12 (v. Mey., in l.).†

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

πρό-κειμαι ; (πρό [q. v.d.a.] and κεῖμαι) ; fr. Hom. down; 1. prop. to lie or be placed before (a person or thing), or in front (often so in Grk. writ.). 2. to be set before, i. 6. a. to be placed before the eyes, to lie in sight; to stand forth: with a pred. nom., δεῖγμα, as an example, Jude 7 (καλὸν ὑπόδειγμά σοι πρόκειται, Joseph. b. j. 6, 2, 1). Ὁ. i. q. to be appointed, destined: προκειμένη ἐλπίς, the hope open to us, offered, given, Heb. vi. 18; used of those things which by any appointment are destined to be done, borne, or attained by any one; SO προκείμενος ἀγών, Heb. xii. 1; προκειμ. χαρά, the destined joy (see ἀντί, 2 b.), ibid. 2 (the phrase τὰ ἄθλα προκεῖσθαι occurs often in prof. writ. fr. Hdt. down; cf. Bleek, Br. an die Heb. ii. 2 p. 268 sqq.). c. to be there, be present, be at hand, (so that it can become actual or available) : 2 Co. viii.…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

πρόκειμαι (prokeimai) — to set before.

πρόκειμαι,

used as passive of προτίθημι, to be set before one, ὀνείαθ᾽ ἑτοῖμα προκείμενα the meats laid ready, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. δαίς, δεῖπνον, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄρτοι προκείμενοι shew-bread, [LXX]

2. lie exposed, ὁρέω παιδίον προκείμενον [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a tuft of wool, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄτιμος ὧδε πρόκειμαι, says Ajax of himself, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially lie dead, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; προκείμενον νέκυν laid out for burial, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἐξενεχθείς, [Refs 5th c.BC+] (also, to be buried first, [Refs 3rd c.AD+] to be exposed to.., [Refs 1st c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

πρόκειμαι

prokeimai

from 4253 and 2749; to lie before the view, i.e. (figuratively) to be

present (to the mind), to stand forth (as an example or reward):--be

first, set before (forth).

see GREEK for 4253

see GREEK for 2749

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

πρόκειμαι

v.

I am set before

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

πρόκειμαι prokeimai 5x

to lie or be placed before; met. to be proposed or set before, as a duty, example, reward, etc., Heb. 6:18; 12:1, 2; Jude 7; to be at hand, be present, 2 Cor. 8:12*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

πρόκειμαι ionic inf. -κέεσθαι fut. -κείσομαι used as Pass. of προτίθημι to be set before one, of meats, Hom., Hdt.

to lie exposed, of a child, Hdt.:— to lie dead, Aesch., Soph.; ὁ προκείμενος the corpse laid out for burial, Soph., etc.

to be set before all, as the prize of a contest, Hes.:—metaph. to be set before all, be set forth, proposed, Lat. in medio poni, γνῶμαι τρεῖς προεκέατο three opinions were set forth, proposed, Hdt., etc.:—of contests, struggles, πόνος τε καὶ ἀγὼν πρόκειται Plat.:—in partic., ἄεθλος προκείμενος a task proposed, Hdt., etc.; τὰ προκείμενα, opp. to μέλλοντα, Soph.; τὸ προκείμενον πρῆγμα the matter in hand, Hdt.

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-PNP-ASM — Verb · present · no voice stated · participle · accusative · singular · masculine
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-PNP-ASM Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Present Voice: middle or passive depoNent Mood: Participle Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Masculine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

be-for': The translation of a great variety of Hebrew and Greek words. "Haran died before (the English Revised Version "in the presence of," literally "before the face of") his father Terah" (Ge 11:28). To be "before" God is to enjoy His favor (Ps 31:22). "The Syrians before" (Isa 9:12 the Revised Version, margin "on the east," as "behind," owing to the position of Canaan, relative to Syria, implies the west).

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
40%lying before
lying before40% · 2×present20% · 1×being set before20% · 1×set forth as20% · 1×

5 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 4 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
verb80%object20%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 5 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
Article the
κρατέωI lay hold of, oτρέχωI run, exercise ἀντί
προθυμίαinclination, readine
Article the
ἕτεροςanother, different
σάρξflesh, body
πρόκειμαιlying before
what comes after →
καθόas, according as
ἐάνCond
ἐλπίςhope, expectation
ἐγώ
ἀγώνa contest
αὐτός
χαράjoy, gladness
δεῖγμαan example, type
πῦρfire, trials

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Concordanceπρόκειμαι · 5× in the New Testament
Hebrews 2 Corinthians Jude
Across the New Testament3 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria Josephus Ignatius of Antioch Clement of Rome
Philo of AlexandriaAllegorical Interpretation of Genesis 3.4c. AD 40

εἰ δὲ μὴ ἀλληγορήσειέ τις, ἀδύνατον παραδέξασθαι τὸ προκείμενον·

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.14c. AD 75–95

τὸ σύνολον δὲ μάλιστά τις ἂν ἐκ ταύτης μάθοι τῆς ἱστορίας ἐθελήσας αὐτὴν διελθεῖν, ὅτι τοῖς μὲν θεοῦ γνώμῃ κατακολουθοῦσι καὶ τὰ καλῶς νομοθετηθέντα μὴ τολμῶσι παραβαίνειν πάντα κατορθοῦται πέρα πίστεως καὶ γέρας εὐδαιμονία πρόκειται παρὰ θεοῦ·

Clement of RomeFirst Clement 63.1c. AD 96

Θεμιτὸν οὖν ἐστὶν τοῖς τοιούτοις καὶ τοσούτοις ὑποδείγμασιν προσελθόντας ὑποθεῖναι τὸν τράχηλον καὶ τὸν τῆς ὑπακοῆς τόπον ἀναπληρῶσαι, ὅπως ἡσυχάσαντες τῆς ματαίας στάσεως ἐπὶ τὸν προκείμενον ἡμῖν ἐν ἀληθείᾳ σκοπὸν δίχα παντὸς μώμου καταντήσωμεν.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
6th c. AD 2nd c. AD 4th c. AD 3rd c. AD 1st c. AD
P. Grenf. 1 29Pathyris106 BC

ιγ τοῦ καὶ ι ἔτους· ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἀποδῶι ἐν τῷ ὡρισμένωι χρόνωι καθότι πρόκειται, ἀποτεισάτωι ἐν τῶ Φαμενὼθ πυροῦ ἀρτάβας … · ἡ δὲ πρᾶξις ἔστω Σεννήσει ἐκ

P.Grenf. 2 32Pathyris102 BC

ὠνῆς Ἐτπεσοῦχος Νεθανούπιος γῆς ἠπείρου σιτοφόρου ἄρουραν α, ὧν αἱ γειτνίαι δεδήλωνται διὰ τῆς προκειμένης συνγραφῆς, ἣν ἠγόρασεν παρὰ Πετεαρσεμθέως τοῦ Πανεβχούνιος πρὸς χαλκοῦ τάλαντα β, τέλος Ασ, γίνονται

γῆς, ἀπηλιώτου ὁδὸς καὶ οἰκία, ὧν τριῶν τὸ ἐπιβάλλον μοι τέταρτον, ὧν αἱ γειτνίαι πρόκεινται. ἐπρίαντο Ἑτπεσοῦχος Νεχθανούφιος καὶ οἱ τούτου ἀδελφοὶ πρὸς χαλκοῦ ταλάντων δέκα . προπωλητὴς καὶ

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
ἡμῖνegō us G3165 Personal pronoun · first person · dative · plural
1,872× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
In plain English
Tyndale gloss
I/we
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἐγώ, gen, etc., ἐμοῦ, ἐμοί, ἐμέ (enclitic μου, μοι, με), pl. ἡμεῖς, -ῶν, -ῖν, -ᾶς,

pers. pron.

I.

The nom. is usually emphatic, when expressed as subjc, as in Mt 3:11, Mk 1:8, Lk 3:16, al. But often there is no apparent emphasis, as Mt 10:16, Jo 10:17; ἰδοὺ ἐ. (= Heb. הִנֵּנִי, cf. I Ki 3:8), Ac 9:10; ἐ. (like Heb. אֲנִי), I am, Jo 1:23 (LXX), Ac 7:32 (LXX).

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ἐγώ, gen. ἐμοῦ, enclitic pod; dat. ἐμοί, enclitic μοί; acc. ἐμέ, enclitic μέ; plur. ἡμεῖς, ete.; personal pronoun, J. 1. The nominatives ἐγώ and ἡμεῖς, when joined to a verb, generally have force and emphasis, or indicate antithesis, as Mt. iii. 11; Mk.i. 8; Lk. iii. 16 (ἐγὼ pev... ὁ δέ); Mt. iii. 14 (ἐγὼ... ἔχω, καὶ σύν ; V. 22, 28, 39, and often; ἡμεῖς, contrasted with God, Mt. vi. 12; ἡμεῖς x. of Φαρισαῖοι, Mt. ix. 14; cf. W. § 22,6. But sometimes they are used where there is no emphasis or antithesis in them, as Mt. x. 16; Jn. x. 17; and in many edd. in Mk. i. 2; Lk. vii. 27; οἵ. B. §129, 12. ἰδοὺ ἐγώ, 1397, behold me, hereamT: Acts ix.10 (1S. iii. 8). ἐγώ, like 38, Jam: Jn. i. 23; Acts vii. 32, [ef. W.585 (544); B. 125 (109)]. 2. The enclitic (and monosyllabic) gen., dat., and ace. are connected with nouns, verbs, adverbs, but not with prepositions: ἔμπροσθέν pov, Jn. i. 15; ὀπίσω…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

ἐγώ. Deissmann (ZAZ p. 134 ff.) has drawn attention to the parallels to the solemn use of the first personal pronoun in the Fourth Gospel that may be adduced from inscriptions and magical texts. Thus in an inscr. in honour of Isis from Ios, written in ii/iii A.p., the contents of which are preChristian, we find —Elows ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ τ[ύρανν]ος πάσης χόρας.. ἐγὼ νόμους ἀνθρώποις ἐθέμην . . ἐγώ εἰμι Kpdvov θυγάτηρ πρεσβυτάτη α΄. And similarly in the magical papyrus P Lond 4645 (iv/a.p.) (=I. p. 69) ἐγώ εἰμι ὃ ἀκέφαλος δαίμων . . ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ ἀλήθεια ὁ μεισῶν ἀδικήματα γείνεσθαι ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ α΄. With the construction of the phrase τί ἐμοὶ καὶ σοί ; in Jn 24 we may compare BGU IV. 1141°8 (n.c. 14) ἐδίδουν αὐτῷ διαστολὰς μηδὲν αὐτῶι καὶ ἐκείνωι εἶναι : for its meaning see Ε΄. C. Burkitt in 77:5 xiii. p- 594f., where it is rendered, ‘‘ What have I and thou to do with that ?” On the difficult…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

μέ (me) — me.

ἐγώ,

I: pronoun of the first person:—Epic dialect mostly ἐγών before vowels (so in Doric dialect, before consonants, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect ἱών [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:— strengthened ἔγωγε, I at least, for my part, indeed, for myself (more frequently in Attic dialect than in [Refs 8th c.BC+]: Doric dialect ἐγώνγα [Refs 7th c.BC+]: Boeotian dialect ἱώνγα [Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἱώνει [Refs]; ἰώγα [Refs 5th c.BC+]: Laconian dialect and Tarentum dialect ἐγώνη, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

II. oblique cases from a different root, genitive ἐμοῦ, enclitic μο; Ionic dialect and Epic dialect ἐμέο, ἐμεῦ, μευ, also ἐμέθεν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect ἔμεθεν [Refs 7th c.BC+]; Doric dialect ἐμέος, ἐμεῦς, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect ἐμοῦς [Refs 6th c.BC+] — _dative_ ἐμοί, enclitic μοι (which may be compared with Sanskrit…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἐγώ

me

a shorter (and probably originally) from of 1691; me:--I, me, my.

see GREEK for 1691

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἐγώ egō 2x

I, gen., ἐμοῦ [μου], dat., ἐμοί [μοι], acc., ἐμέ [με]

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Pron-1DP — Personal pronoun · first person · dative · plural
dative — to, for, with — the one it is done to or by.
Agrees with anything else marked plural.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

P-1DP Part of Speech: Personal pronoun Person: first Case: Dative Number: Plural

English usagewhat the translators’ English meant
Webster's Dictionary (1828), Webster's Unabridged (1913), Webster's Dictionary (1806)

US, pronoun objective case of we.

Give us this day our daily bread.

Us , pron. [OE. us, AS. s; akin to OFries. & OS. s, D. ons, G. uns, Icel. & Sw. oss, Dan. os, Goth. uns, L. nos we, us, Gr. we, Skr. nas us. . Cf. Nostrum, Our.] The persons speaking, regarded as an object; ourselves; — the objective case of we. See We. “Tell us a tale.” Chaucer.

Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11.

Us, pron. oblique case of we

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
35%us
us35% · 717×me32% · 644×mine20% · 402×we ourselves6% · 124×my2% · 45×other renderings5% · 97×

2,029 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 27 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

Therefore also we ourselves such a great having encompassing us a cloud of witnesses, weight having laid aside every and the easily entangling sin, with endurance may run the lying before us race
ἀγῶναagōn race G73 Noun · accusative · singular · masculine
6× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Hebrews than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means a struggle or fight, like the challenges of the Christian life. It appears in Philippians 1:30 and 1 Timothy 6:12.
Amplified meaning
contest, struggle
Tyndale gloss
fight
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

ἀγών is derived from ἄγω and primarily refers to a gathering or assembly, especially for contests like athletic games. It encompasses meanings related to struggle, trial, and anxiety, particularly in the context of the Christian life as a contest (Philippians 1:30, 1 Timothy 6:12). The term can also denote a place of contest or a metaphorical struggle for one's highest interests.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἀγών, -ῶνος, ὁ

(< ἄγω),

[in LXX: Is 7:13 (לאה), Es 4:17, Wi 4:2 10:12, II Mac6, IV Mac5*;]

a gathering, esp. for games.

a place of assembly.

a contest, struggle, trial; metaph. (MM, VGT, s.v.),

of the Christian life as a contest and struggle: Phl 1:30, I Th 2:2, I Ti 6:12, II Ti 4:7 He 12:1;

solicitude, anxiety: Col 2:1.†

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ἀγών, -ὥνος, 6, (ἄγω); 1. a place of assembly (Hom. Tl. 7, 298; 18,376); spec. the place in which the Greeks assembled to celebrate solemn games (as the Pythian, the Olympian); hence 2. a contest, of athletes, runners, charioteers. In a fig. sense, a. in the phrase (used by the Greeks, see τρέχω, b.) τρέχειν τὸν ἀγῶνα, Heb. xii. 1, that is to say ‘ Amid all hindrances let us exert ourselves to the utmost to attain to the goal of perfection set before the followers of Christ’; any struggle with dangers, annoyances, obstacles, standing in the way of faith, holiness, and a desire to spread the gospel: 1 Th. ii. 2; Phil. i. 30; 1 Tim. vi. 12; 2 Tim. iv. 7. b. intense solicitude, anxiety: περί τινος, Col. ii. 1 [ef. Eur. Ph. 1350; Polyb. 4, 56,4]. On the ethical use of figures borrowed from the Greek Games οἵ. Grimm on Sap. iv. 1; [Howson, Metaphors of St. Paul, Essay iv.; Conyb. and Hows.…

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ἀγών. The ethical meaning of ἀγών is requent in late Greek, e. g. P Flor I. 3628 (iv/A.b.) τ[ὸ]ν περὶ ψυχῆς ἀγῶ[ν]α. In Col 2}, however, Field (Votes, p. 195) prefers to think of outward, rather than of inward, conflict, and compares Plut. ΚΔ. Flam. XVI. πλεῖστον δ᾽ ἀγῶνα καὶ πόνον αὐτῷ παρεῖχον αἱ περὶ “Καλκιδέων δεήσεις πρὸς τὸν Μάνιον, where Langhorne translates, ‘‘ but he had much greater difficulties to combat, when he applied to Manius in behalf of the Chalcidians.” In a petition of B.c. 5, BGU IV. 11397", we find διὸ ἀξιοῦμέν [σε] τὸν πάντων σωτῆρα Kal avTiAnp Tropa ὑπὲρ σπλάγχνου τὸν ἀγῶνα ποιούμενοι to compel restitution of a stolen daughter. For the literal meaning, see Sy// 524 where various τῶν τε παίδων καὶ τῶν ἐφήβω[ν] ... ἀγώνες in reading, music, etc., are enumerated; BGU IV. 1074%° (iii/A.D.) of great games at Oxyrhynchus, etc.…

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ἀγών (agōn) — fight.

ἀγών [ᾰ], ῶνος, ὁ,

Aeolic dialect ἄγωνος, ου, ὁ, [Refs 7th c.BC+]; Elean dative plural ἀγώνοιρ[Refs]: (ἄγω):—gathering, assembly, ἵζανεν εὐρὺν ἀ.[Refs 8th c.BC+]: especially assembly met to see games, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ὑπερβορέων ἀ. Pi [Refs 4th c.BC+]

2. place of contest, lists, course, βήτην ἐς μέσσον ἀ.[Refs 8th c.BC+] out of the lists or course, i.e. beside the mark, [Refs 8th c.BC+]

II. assembly of the Greeks at the national games, ὁ ἐν Ὀλυμπίῃ ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+]:— hence, contest for a prize at the games, ἀ. γυμνικός, ἱππικός, μουσικός, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τῶν ἀνδρῶν contest in which the chorus was composed of men, opposed to to παίδων or ἀγενείων (which see), [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀ. στεφανηφόρος or στεφανίτης contest where the prize is a crown, [Refs 5th…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἀγών

agon

from 71; properly, a place of assembly (as if led), i.e. (by

implication) a contest (held there); figuratively, an effort or

anxiety:--conflict, contention, fight, race.

see GREEK for 71

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἀγών, ῶνος, ὁ

n.m.

a contest

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἀγών agōn 6x

place of contest, race-course, stadium; a contest, strife, contention; peril, toil

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ἀγών ἄγομαι a number of people brought together, a gathering, assembly, like ἀγορά, ἵζανεν εὐρὺν ἀγῶνα, λῦτο δ᾽ ἀγών, ἐν ἀγῶνι νεῶν Hom.: esp. an assembly met to see games, id. Hom., etc.

a place of contest, the arena, id. Hom., etc.; βήτην ἐς μέσσον ἀγῶνα Il.

an assembly of the Greeks at their great national games, ὁ ἐν Ὀλυμπίῃ ἀγών Hdt.; ὁ Ὀλυμπικὸς ἀγών Ar.

the contest for a prize at the games, ἀγὼν ἱππικός, γυμνικός Hdt., etc.; ἀγὼν τῶν ἀνδρῶν, in which the chorus was composed of men, opp. to τῶν παίδων, Dem., etc.:— hence, ἀγῶνα ἄγειν, καθιστάναι, τιθέναι, προτιθέναι, ποιεῖν, to hold or propose a contest; ἀγῶν or ἐν ἀγῶνι νικᾶν, to win one or at…

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Noun-ASM — Noun · accusative · singular · masculine
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

N-ASM Part of Speech: Noun Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Masculine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ras (merox; agon, dromos).

See GAMES, I, 2; II, 3.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

[GAMES]

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

Ps 19:5 Ec 9:11. Various games were instituted among the Greeks and Romans, in honor of their gods, and with the design of training young men to personal vigor and activity, and to intrepidity and skill in war. These games were celebrated at stated places and times, with great pomp; renowned statesmen, legislators, and kings engaged in them; and it was deemed the highest of all honors to be crowned with a simple chaplet of laurel, olive, pine, or parsley, in the presence of the vast assemblage of witnesses who delighted to honor the victor.

The preparatory training was very severe, and every weakening indulgence was forbidden. Among the most famous games were those celebrated on the isthmus of Corinth, hence called the Isthmian games; and to these Paul alludes in his letters to…

Nave's Topical Bible

1. Human

Unity of Ge 3:20; Mal 2:10

2. FOOT RACE

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
33%conflict
conflict33% · 2×fight33% · 2×struggle17% · 1×race17% · 1×

6 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 4 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
object83%adverbial17%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 6 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καλόςbeautiful, good, wor
Article the
αὐτός
Article the
ἡλίκοςof what size, how mu
οἶδαI know, remember
πολύςmuch, many, often
ἐν
ἐγώ
πρόκειμαιI am set before
ἀγώνrace
what comes after →
ἔχωI have, hold, posses
οἷοςὑπέρ
Article the
πίστιςfaith, belief, t
ἀγωνίζομαιI strive, contend
Article the

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceἀγών · 6× in the New Testament
1 Thessalonians 1 Timothy 2 Timothy Colossians Hebrews Philippians
Across the New Testament6 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria Clement of Rome
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 33c. AD 40

ἔμελλε γὰρ γειτνιῶντα σύγχυσιν ἀπεργάζεσθαι τῷ περὶ δυναστείας ἀγῶνι κατὰ πολλὴν καὶ ἄπαυστον φιλονεικίαν ἐπαποδυόμενα, εἰ μὴ μέσοι παγέντες ὅροι διέζευξαν καὶ διέλυσαν τὴν ἀντεπίθεσιν.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.315c. AD 75–95

σὺ δὲ οὔτε τῆς μητρὸς τῆς σαυτοῦ καὶ ἧς ἔχεις πρὸς ἐμὲ συγγενείας οὔτε γυναικῶν ἃς ἔγημας αἰδῶ ποιησάμενος, οὐδὲ τέκνων ὧν εἰμι πάππος φροντίσας, ἐχρήσω μοι πολέμου νόμῳ, κτῆσιν μὲν ἄγων τὴν ἐμὴν θυγατέρας δὲ ἀναπείσας ἀποδρᾶναι τὸν γεγεννηκότα,

Clement of RomeFirst Clement 2.4c. AD 96

ἀγὼν ἦν ὑμῖν ἡμέρας τε καὶ νυκτὸς ὑπὲρ πάσης τῆς ἀδελφότητος, εἰς τὸ σώζεσθαι μετ̓ ἐλέους καὶ συνειδήσεως τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν αὐτοῦ.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
3rd c. AD 2nd c. AD 3rd c. BC 4th c. AD 2nd c. BC
P.Iand. 4 52Theadelphia (Arsinoites)AD 96

Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ καὶ λελογχέναι τὸν μὲν Μύσθαν εἰς τὸ ἐπιβάλλον αὐτῷ ἥμισυ μέρος τὸ Ἀγῶνα λεγόμενον ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνόντος διαβάτου εἰς τὸν νότον μέχρι παλαιοῦ ἐκβλύσματος λεγομένου Φ

P.Customs 194Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)AD 145

τετελώνηται διὰ πύλης Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου ἐρημοφυλακίας Στοτοῆτις ε … άγων πρὸς ἀπεργασίαν ὄνον ἕνα . ἔτους ὀγδόου Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Μεσορὴ εἰκάδι, κ.

P.Stras. 7 650Philadelphia (Arsinoites)AD 158

τετελώνηται διὰ πύλης Φιλαδελφίας ἑκατοστῆς πεντηκοστῆς Ε … … άγων πυροῦ … … … ἀρτάβας πέντε τέλος δραχμὴ μία ὀβολὸς ἡμιωβέλιον . ἔτους εἰκοστοῦ

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