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N1904ἐν ταύταις κατέκειτο πλῆθος πολὺ τῶν ἀσθενούντων, τυφλῶν, χωλῶν, ξηρῶν ἐκδεχομένων τὴν τοῦ ὕδατος κίνησιν.

BSAInen theseohutos [specific, previously mentioned] were lyingkatakeimai a multitudeplēthos [large, abundant] greatpolus of thoseho ailing,astheneō [weak, feeble] blind,tuphlos [physically or spiritually unable to see] lame,chōlos [crippled] paralyzedxēros [completely unable to move] waiting forekdechomai <the>ho of theho waterhudōr, hudatos motion.kinēsis

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John 5:3quick helps
In a sentenceA large number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people lay waiting at the pool of Bethesda.
Who is speakingThe writer of the Gospel of John describes a scene in Jerusalem.
Where we areThe setting is near the Sheep Gate at a pool called Bethesda.
The hard wordἐκδέχομαι
Take awayThe people are in a state of waiting, hoping for healing.
8 commentators on this verse Gill, Jamieson, Poole, Trapp & more — read them › clause subjectπλῆθος verbκατάκειμαι The sentence as the grammar sees it Open the tree ›
How rare are these words?in the New Testament

1 of 15 occurs nowhere else in the New Testament — a word chosen on purpose.

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Deep Study — John 5:3

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Context — The Pool of Bethesdagenerated

2Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.
3On these walkways lay a great number of the sick, the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.
5One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

John 5:3 describes a scene at the pool of Bethesda, where many sick and disabled people gathered, hoping for healing. This pool, with its five covered colonnades, was a place of expectation and longing for miraculous intervention. The mention of various ailments highlights the desperate condition of those present, mirroring the physical and spiritual needs of humanity.


Cross References

ReferenceText (BSB)
1Matthew 15:30Large crowds came to Him, bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and laid them at His feet, and He healed them.
2Luke 7:22So He replied, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
31 Kings 13:4Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.
4Zechariah 11:17Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”
5Mark 3:1–4Once again Jesus entered the synagogue, and a man with a withered hand was there.

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — 9 references, hung on the phrase they belong to


The Key Word ἐκδέχομαι, ekdechomaigenerated

The term ἐκδεχομένων is a present participle of ἐκδέχομαι, meaning to wait for or expect something. It indicates an ongoing state of anticipation, as the people are actively waiting for the movement of the water, which they believed had healing properties.

The participle form suggests that this waiting is a continuous action, emphasizing the hope and desperation of those who are ailing. It captures the essence of their condition, as they are not just waiting but are in a state of expectation for healing.


How Translations Differ — measured against the Berean Standard Biblegenerated

In this verse, the Berean Standard Bible uses the phrase waiting for, which is echoed in the KJV and WEB. The ASV and YLT also use similar wording.

However, the translations diverge with the term ἐκδεχομένων. The KJV and WEB use waiting for, while the DBY and MSB opt for awaiting, showing a slight variation in the emphasis of the waiting.


Sentence Structuregenerated

The main verb in the verse is κατέκειτο, were lying, which governs the subject and several noun phrases. The structure indicates that the sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed are all part of the same group lying at the pool.

The sentence structure includes multiple noun phrases that describe the condition of the people, emphasizing their ailments and their collective state of waiting. This arrangement highlights the desperation of the scene.


Septuagint Backgroundgenerated

The term ἀσθενούντων corresponds to the Hebrew word for weakness or sickness, which appears in various contexts in the Septuagint. This connection underscores the continuity of the theme of healing and divine intervention found throughout the scriptures.

The word τυφλῶν is also present in the Septuagint, where it translates the Hebrew for blindness, further linking the physical ailments described in the New Testament to the prophetic traditions of the Old Testament.


In plain words — the whole versegenerated

John 5:3 describes a scene at the pool of Bethesda, where many sick and disabled people gathered, hoping for healing. This pool, with its five covered colonnades, was a place of expectation and longing for miraculous intervention. The mention of various ailments highlights the desperate condition of those present.


Frequently Asked Questionsgenerated

What was the significance of the pool of Bethesda?

The pool of Bethesda was believed to have healing properties, attracting many sick individuals who hoped to be cured when the waters were stirred.

Why were the people waiting by the pool?

They were waiting for the movement of the water, which they believed would heal them when they entered the pool.

What types of ailments are mentioned in this verse?

The verse mentions the sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed, indicating a range of physical disabilities.

How does this verse connect to the theme of healing in the Gospels?

This verse sets the stage for Jesus' healing miracles, demonstrating the desperate need for healing and the faith of those who sought it.


Reflection Questionsgenerated

  1. What does this scene reveal about the human condition and our need for healing?
  2. How can we, like those at the pool, cultivate a sense of expectation in our lives?
  3. In what ways do we see God working in our lives today, similar to the healings at Bethesda?
  4. How can we support those who are waiting for healing or hope in our communities?

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

Early church commentators reflect on the gathering at the pool of Bethesda, interpreting the scene in light of healing and faith.

Theodore of MopsuestiaCOMMENTARY ON John 2.5.2-5 c. 350–428
A great crowd of ill people, struck with different infirmities, had gathered here hoping to be healed as if these waters might effect something because the entrails of sheep offered as victims to God [for the temple] were washed in them.
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BedeCatena Aurea by Aquinas c. 673–735
Lastly, many kinds of impotent folk lay near the pool: the blind, i. e. those who are without the light of knowledge; the lame, i. e. those who have not strength to do what they are commanded; the withered, i. e.
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Commentators on this verse — 8 expositors, verse by verse

Each of these wrote on John 5:3 itself, not merely on the chapter around it.

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

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk,.... Sick and weak persons; who were an emblem of men under the law of works, and in a state of unregeneracy; who are enfeebled by sin, and are

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

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

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

In these apartments (called here porches) there were a great number of sick persons, some labouring under one infirmity, some under another, some blind, some lame, waiting for the time the water should be troubled.

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

3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. Ver. 3. Of impotent folk] That had tried all other ways, and could not otherwise be cured, Omnipotenti medico, nullus insanabilis occurrit morbus. (Isidore.)

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

(3) In these lay a great multitude.—The word “great” before multitude, and the latter clause of the verse “waiting for the moving of the water,” and the whole of Joh 5:4, is omitted by most of the oldest MSS., including the Sinaitic and the Vatican, and is judged to be no part of the original text by a consensus of modern editors, including Tischendorf, Tregelles, Alford, and Westcott and Hort. It is interesting to note how a gloss like this has found its way into the narrative, and, for ninety-nine out of every hundred readers, is now regarded as an integral part of St. John’s Gospel. We meet with it very early. It is found in the Alexandrian MS., and in the Latin and early Syrian…

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AdamClarkeAdam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Verse 3. Blind, halt, withered] To these the Codex Bezae, three copies of the Itala, and both the Persic, add παραλυτικων, paralytic; but they are probably included among the withered. Waiting for the moving of the water.] This clause, with the whole of the fourth verse, is wanting in some MSS. and versions; but I think there is no sufficient evidence against their authenticity. Griesbach seems to be of the same opinion; for though he has marked the whole passage with the notes of doubtfulness, yet he has left it in the text. Some have imagined that the sanative virtue was communicated to the waters by washing in them the entrails of the beasts which were offered in sacrifice; and that the…

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CambridgeThe Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

3. lay a great multitude] Better, were lying a multitude.blind, halt, withered] These are the special kinds of ‘impotent folk.’waiting for the moving of the water] These words and the whole of Joh 5:4 are almost certainly an interpolation, though a very ancient one. They are omitted by the best MSS. Other important MSS. omit John 5:4 or mark it as suspicious. Moreover, those MSS. which contain the passage vary very much. The passage is one more likely to be inserted without authority than to be omitted if genuine; and very probably it represents the popular belief with regard to the intermittent bubbling of the healing water, first added as a gloss, and then inserted into the text. The…

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Albert Barnes1798–1870Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Impotent folk - Sick people; or people who were weak and feeble by long disease. The word means those who were “feeble” rather than those who were afflicted with “acute” disease. Halt - Lame.

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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

On these walkways lay a great number of the sick, the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.

WEBWorld English Bible2000

In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;

MSBMajority Standard Bible2022

On these walkways lay a great number of the sick, the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed, awaiting the moving of the water.

NETBNew English Translation2006

A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways.

Tyndale line

KJVKing James Version1611

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

ASVAmerican Standard Version1901

In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered.

RVARevised Version, American1894

In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered.

NWBWebster's Bible1833

In these lay a great multitude of impotent persons, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

GNVGeneva Bible1599

In the which lay a great multitude of sicke folke, of blinde, halte, and withered, wayting for the mouing of the water.

Strictly literal

DBYDarby Translation1890

In these lay a multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, [awaiting the moving of the water.

YLTYoung's Literal Translation1862

in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water,

LSVLiteral Standard Version2020

in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, [[waiting for the moving of the water,

ULBUnlocked Literal Bible2017

A large number of people who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed were lying there.

From the Latin

DRADouay-Rheims (Challoner)1899

In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of withered; waiting for the moving of the water.

Simplified

FBVFree Bible Version2020

Crowds of sick people were lying in these porches—those who were blind, lame, or paralyzed.

BBEBible in Basic English1949

In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.

Word by word, the decisions they made

πλῆθοςplēthos a multitude G4128 3 different renderings
multitudeDRA GNV KJV LSV NWB WEB YLT
numberBBE BSB MSB NETB ULB
a multitudeASV DBY RVA
ἀσθενούντων,astheneō ailing, G770 2 different renderings
sickASV BSB DBY DRA FBV MSB NETB RVA ULB WEB
ailingLSV YLT
τυφλῶν,tuphlos blind, G5185 2 different renderings
blindASV DBY DRA FBV KJV LSV NETB NWB RVA ULB WEB YLT
the blindBSB MSB
ξηρῶνxēros paralyzed G3584 2 different renderings
witheredASV DBY DRA GNV KJV LSV NWB RVA YLT
paralyzedBSB FBV MSB NETB ULB WEB
ἐκδεχομένωνekdechomai waiting for G1551 2 different renderings
waiting forDRA KJV LSV NWB WEB YLT
awaitingDBY MSB

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.

clauseclauseprepositional phrase · adverbialἐνInταύταιςtheseverbκατέκειτοwere lyingnoun phrase · subjectπλῆθοςa multitudenoun phrasenoun phraseτῶνof thoseclauseverbἀσθενούντωνailingnoun phraseτυφλῶνblindχωλῶνlameξηρῶν(paralyzedclauseverbἐκδεχομένωνawaitingnoun phrase · objectτὴνthenoun phrasenoun phraseτοῦof theὕδατοςwaterκίνησινmovingclauseγὰρforclauseclausesubjectἄγγελοςAn angelprepositional phrase · adverbialκατὰduringκαιρὸν[a certain] seasonverbκατέβαινενdescendedprepositional phrase · adverbialἐνintonoun phraseτῇtheκολυμβήθρᾳpoolκαὶandclauseverbἐτάρασσεstirrednoun phrase · objectτὸtheὕδωρwaterclauseοὖνthereforeclausenoun phrase · subjectHe whoπρῶτοςfirstclause · adverbialverbἐμβὰςenteredprepositional phrase · adverbialμετὰafternoun phraseτὴνthenoun phraseταραχὴνstirringnoun phraseτοῦof theὕδατοςwaterpredicateὑγιὴςwelllinking verbἐγίνετοwas madeclausesubjectfrom whateveradverbialδήποτεat the timeverbκατείχετοhe was held byadverbialνοσήματι)disease

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

In his jacebat multitudo magna languentium, cæcorum, claudorum, aridorum, expectantium aquæ motum.

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

ܘܒܗܠܝܢ ܪܡܝܢ ܗܘܘ ܥܡܐ ܣܓܝܐܐ ܕܟܪܝܗܐ ܘܣܡܝܐ ܘܚܓܝܣܐ ܘܝܒܝܫܐ ܘܡܣܟܝܢ ܗܘܘ ܠܙܘܥܐ ܕܡܝܐ

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

ἐν ταύταις κατέκειτο πλῆθος τῶν ἀσθενούντων, τυφλῶν, χωλῶν, ξηρῶν

The standard critical text of the New Testament.

Nestle-Aland 27th edition1993 · Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft

ἐν ταύταις κατέκειτο πλῆθος τῶν ἀσθενούντων, τυφλῶν, χωλῶν, ξηρῶν

The previous edition, still widely cited.

SBL Greek New Testament2010 · Michael Holmes

ἐν ταύταις κατέκειτο πλῆθος τῶν ἀσθενούντων, τυφλῶν, χωλῶν, ξηρῶν

The Society of Biblical Literature edition, freely licensed.

Westcott–Hort1881 · Westcott and Hort

ἐν ταύταις κατέκειτο πλῆθος τῶν ἀσθενούντων, τυφλῶν, χωλῶν, ξηρῶν

The edition that turned scholarship toward the earliest manuscripts.

Tregelles1857–1879 · Samuel Prideaux Tregelles

ἐν ταύταις κατέκειτο πλῆθος τῶν ἀσθενούντων, τυφλῶν, χωλῶν, ξηρῶν

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

Tyndale House Greek NT2017 · Tyndale House, Cambridge

ἐν ταύταις κατέκειτο πλῆθος τῶν ἀσθενούντων, τυφλῶν, χωλῶν, ξηρῶν

A recent critical edition following documentary evidence closely.

Byzantine majority text2018 · Robinson–Pierpont

ἐν ταύταις κατέκειτο πλῆθος πολὺ τῶν ἀσθενούντων, τυφλῶν, χωλῶν, ξηρῶν ἐκδεχομένων τὴν τοῦ ὕδατος κίνησιν.

The reading of the majority of surviving manuscripts.

Textus Receptus1550/1894 lineage

ἐν ταύταις κατέκειτο πλῆθος πολὺ τῶν ἀσθενούντων, τυφλῶν, χωλῶν, ξηρῶν ἐκδεχομένων τὴν τοῦ ὕδατος κίνησιν.

The printed tradition behind the King James Version.

Every witness on this verse they differ
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

WordEditions carrying itMissing from
πολὺ greatTR, ByzNA28, NA27, SBL, WH, Treg, Tyn
ἐκδεχομένων waiting forTR, ByzNA28, NA27, SBL, WH, Treg, Tyn
τὴν <the>TR, ByzNA28, NA27, SBL, WH, Treg, Tyn
τοῦ of theTR, ByzNA28, NA27, SBL, WH, Treg, Tyn
ὕδατος waterTR, ByzNA28, NA27, SBL, WH, Treg, Tyn
κίνησιν. motion.TR, ByzNA28, NA27, SBL, WH, Treg, Tyn

Apparatus — SBL Greek New Testament, CC BY 4.0


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.

John 5:3ἐνInInἐνοὗτοςthesetheseοὗτοςκατάκειμαιwere lyingwere lyingκατάκειμαιπλῆθοςa multitudea multitudeπλῆθοςπολύςgreatgreatπολύςof thoseof thoseἀσθενέωailing,ailing,ἀσθενέωτυφλόςblind,blind,τυφλόςχωλόςlame,lame,χωλόςξηρόςparalyzedparalyzedξηρόςἐκδέχομαιwaiting forwaiting forἐκδέχομαι<the><the>of theof theὕδωρwaterwaterὕδωρκίνησιςmotion.motion.κίνησιςἐκPrep. fromPrep. from out,ἐκκατάPrep. downPrep. down fromκατάπίμπλημιv. I fillv. I fillπίμπλημιἀσθενήςAdj weak, Adj weak, infirἀσθενήςκινέωv. I move,v. I move, stirκινέωεἰςPrep. intoPrep. into, in,εἰςτυφόωv. I puff v. I puff up, mτυφόωξέστηςn.m. a Romn.m. a Roman meξέστηςὑετόςn.m. rainn.m. rainὑετόςσυναγωγήn.f. an asn.f. an assemblσυναγωγήἔρημοςAdj desertAdj deserted, dἔρημοςγενεάn.f. a genn.f. a generatiγενεάἄρχωνn.m. a ruln.m. a ruler, pἄρχωνΣίμωνn.m. Simonn.m. SimonΣίμωνἐπίPrep. on, Prep. on, to, aἐπίἅπαςAdj all, tAdj all, the whἅπαςἰχθύςn.m. a fisn.m. a fishἰχθύςπλῆθοςn.n. a muln.n. a multitudπλῆθος
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 John 5:3

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Every entry below is the lexicographer's own text. Imported from the CrossWire SWORD modules — Abbott-Smith, the full Liddell-Scott-Jones, Strong's, Dodson, the Intermediate LSJ, Robinson and Packard on the Greek, Webster and Cawdrey on the English the translators were using. Where a cell says a work has no entry, that work genuinely has none for this word.

In these were lying a multitude great of those ailing, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for <the> of the water motion.
ἐνen In G1722 Preposition
2,743× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word is a preposition that means in, on, or among something. It's used in many places, like Matthew 7:3 and Luke 7:37, to describe a location or relationship. It can also mean by, with, or during.
Tyndale gloss
in/on/among
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The most frequent preposition in the New Testament, 2,752 occurrences. In, on, at, among, within — its force comes almost entirely from the word it is attached to. What it does here is put the events inside a community rather than at a distance: they were fulfilled among us.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἐν,

prep, (the most freq. of all in NT), c. dat. (= Heb. בְּ, Lat. in, c. abl.).

Of place, c. dat. rei, pers., in, within, on, at, by, among: ἐν τ. πόλει, Lk 7:37; τ. οφθαλμῷ, Mt 7:3; τ. κοιλίᾳ, Mt 12:40; τ. ὄρει, II Pe 1:18; τ. θρόνῳ, Re 3:21; τ. δεξιᾷ τ. θεοῦ, Ro 8:34; ἐν ἡμῖν , Lk 1:1; of books, ἐν τ. βιβλίῳ, Ga 3:10; τ. νόμῳ, Mt 12:5, al.; ἐν τοῖς τ. Πατρός, in my Father's house (RV; cf. M, Pr., 103)…

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

ἐν Χριστῷ, ἐν Χριστῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ, ἐν κυρίῳ, (οἴ. Fritzsche, Com. on Rom. vol. ii. p. 82 544.; W. 389 (364); Weiss, Bibl. Theol. des N. T. §§ 84 b., 149 c.), ingrafied as it were in Christ, in fellowship and union with Christ, with the Lord: Ro. iii. 24; vi. 11, 23; viii. 39; 1Co.i.4; 2 Co. iii. 14; Gal. ii. 4; iii. 14, 26, 28; v. 6; Eph.i. 3 [Rec. om. ἐν]; ii. 6 sq. 10,13; 1 Tim.i.14; 2 Tim.i. 1,13; ii-1; 1 Pet. iii. 16; v.10; στήκειν ἐν κυρίῳ, Phil. iv. 1; iva εὑρεθῶ ἐν αὐτῷ, that I may be found (by God and Christ) most intimately united to him, Phil. iii. 9; εἶναι ἐν Χριστῷ "Inc. 1 Co. i. 30; οἱ ἐν Xp. "Ina. Ro. viii. 1; 1 Pet. v. 14; κοιμᾶσθαι ἐν Χριστῷ, θνήσκειν ἐν κυρίῳ, to fall asleep, to die, mindful of relationship to Christ and confiding in it [W. u.s.], 1 Co. xv. 18; Rey. xiv. 13. Since such union with Christ is the basis on which actions and virtues rest, the expression is…

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

ἐν 210 contract—time of Augustus) ἱμάτια γυναικεῖα ἐν apyv(plov) δραχμαῖς ἑκατόν, P Oxy IV. 7247 (A.D. 155) ἐξ ὧν ἔσχες τὴν πρώτην δόσιν ἐν δραχμαῖς τεσσαράκοντα, 70. I. 565 (A.D. 211) δανειζομένη. .. ἀργύριον ἔντοκον ἐν δραχμαῖς ἑξακισχειλίαις, and P Grenf II. 778 (iii/iv a.p.) (=Selections, Pp. 120) το]ὺς μισθοὺς. . ὄντας ἐν δραχμαῖς τριακοσίαις τεσσαράκοντα. Similar are P Oxy IV. 7084 (a.p. 188) yopou . . ἐν (1vpod)(apraBats) ’B, BGU 1. 724 (a.p. 191) ἐξέκοψαν πλεῖστον τόπον ἐν ἀρούραις πέντε: with which may be compared Eph 2!° τὸν νόμον τῶν ἐντολῶν ἐν δόγμασιν, “consisting in.” In P Lond 9215 (ii/iii a.p.) (ΞΞ 111. P- 134) γεγονέναι ἐν ἀμπέλῳ = ‘to be planted with vines.” A predicative use of ἐν is seen in P Hib I. 421° (B.c. 262) δώσομεν Λευκίωι ἐν ὀφειλήματι, ‘asa debt,” P Petr I. 1215 (cf. II. p. 22) ὅσα δὲ ᾿Αξιοθέα προσενήνεγκται ἐμ φερνῆι, “ἐᾷς dowry,” and P Tebt I. 120 135…

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ἐν (en) — in/on/among.

ἐν,

poetry ἐνί, εἰν, εἰνί [Refs 8th c.BC+], forms used by Epic dialect and Lyric Poets as the metre requires, but only as falsa lectio in Trag., εἰν [Refs 5th c.BC+] ἰν [Refs]

__PREP. WITH DAT. AND ACC. Radical sense, in, into.

__A WITH DAT.

__A.I OF PLACE,

__A.I.1 in, νήσῳ ἐν ἀμφιρύτῃ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; with names of cities or islands, as ἐν Ἀθήνῃς, ἐν Τροίῃ, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; where ἐν is used, it = in the district of.., ὲν Ἐλευσῖνι [Refs] in my arms, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν αὑτῷ εἶναι to be in one's senses, be oneself, ἔτ᾽ ἐν σαυτῷ (variant -τοῦ) γενοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+]

__A.I.1.b ἐν τοῖς ἰχθύσιν in the fish-market, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; so ἐν τοῖν δυοῖν ὀβολοῖν ἐθεώρουν ἄν in the two-obol seats, [Refs 4th…

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ἐν

en

a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or

state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or

constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519

and 1537); "in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.:--about, after, against, +

almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+

all means), for (... sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to,

-wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly,

one, X quickly,

X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on),

through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while,

with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same

import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate

direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different)

preposition.

see GREEK for 1519

see GREEK for 1537

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἐν

Prep.

in, on, among

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἐν en 2x

followed by the dat., in, Mt. 8:6; Mk. 12:26; Rev. 6:6,; upon, Lk. 8:32; among, Mt. 11:11; before, in the presence of, Mk. 8:38; in the sight, estimation of, 1 Cor. 14:11; before, judicially, 1 Cor. 6:2; in, of state, occupation, habit, Mt. 21:22; Lk. 7:25; Rom. 4:10; in the case of, Read the full entry →

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ἐν

e)nprepe)ni/prep ei)nprep ei)ni/prep in, among. c. dat.

Lat. in.

PREP. WITH DAT.:

OF PLACE

in, ἐν νήσῳ, ἐν Τροίῃ, etc., Hom., etc.:—elliptic, ἐν Ἀλκινόοιο (sc. οἴκῳ) Od.; εἰν Ἀΐδαο Il.; ἐν παιδοτρίβου at the school of the training master, Ar.

in, upon, ἐν οὔρεσι Hom., etc.

in the number of, amongst, ἐν Δαναοῖς, etc., Hom.; and with Verbs of ruling, ἄρχειν, ἀνάσσειν ἐν πολλοῖς to be first or lord among many, i. e. over them, id. Hom.; cf. ὁ, τό B. III. 3.

in one's hands, within one's reach or power, Lat. penes, Hom., etc.; ἐν σοὶ γάρ ἐσμεν Soph.; ἐν τῷ θεῷ τὸ τέλος ἦν Dem.

in respect of, ἐν γήρᾳ in point of age, Soph.

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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

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

A principal thing to notice about this preposition, which in the King James Version represents about 16 Hebrew and as many Greek words and prepositions, is that, in hundreds of cases (especially in the Old Testament, but frequently also in the New Testament) in the Revised Version (British and American) the rendering is changed to more exact forms ("to," "unto," "by," "upon," "at," "with," "among," "for," "throughout," etc.; compare e.g. Ge 6:16; 13:8; 17:7,9,12; 18:1; Ex 8:17; Le 1:9, etc.); while, nearly as often, "in" is substituted for divergent forms of the King James Version (e.g. Ge 2:14; 17:11; 31:54; 40:7; 49:17; Ex…

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
In these were lying a multitude great of those ailing, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for <the> of the water motion.
ταύταιςohutos these G3778 Demonstrative pronoun · dative · plural · feminine
1,388× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This refers to a specific person or thing, like when Jesus says 'this is my body' in Matthew 26:26 and Mark 14:22.
Amplified meaning
specific, previously mentioned
Tyndale gloss
this/he/she/it
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word οὗτος (i.e., *houtos*) is a demonstrative pronoun meaning 'this' or 'this one.' It is used to refer to something nearby or recently mentioned, often with a connotation of contempt in certain contexts. In the New Testament, it appears in various forms, such as in Matthew 3:17 and John 1:15, and can also serve to emphasize or clarify a subject.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

οὗτος, αὕτη, τοῦτο, gen., τούτου, ταύτης, τούτου,

[in LXX chiefly for זֶה, זֹאת;]

demonstr. pron. (related to ἐκεῖνος as hic to ille),

this;

as subst., this one, he;

absol.: Mt 3:17, Mk 9:7, Lk 7:44, 45, Jo 1:15, Ac 2:15, al.; expressing contempt (cl.), Mt 13:55, 56, Mk 6:2, 3, Jo 6:42, al.; εἰς τοῦτο, Mk 1:38, Ro 14:9; μετὰ τοῦτο (ταῦτα; V. Westc. on Jo 5:1), Jo 2:12 11:7, al.;

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οὗτος, αὕτη, τοῦτο, demonstrative pron. [ef. Curtius p. 543], Hebr. 71, ΠΝ, this; used I. absolutely. 1. a. this one, visibly present here: Mt. iii. 17; xvii.5; Mk. ix. 7; Lk. vii. 44 sq.; ix. 35; 2 Pet.i.17. Mt.ix.3; xxi. 38; Mk. xiv. 69; Lk. 11. 34; xxiii. 2; Jn. i. 15, 30; vii. 25; ix. 8 54. 19; xviii. 21,50; xxi. 21; Actsii. 15; iv. 10; ix. 21; according to the nature and character of the person or thing mentioned, it is used with a suggestion —either of contempt, as Mt. xiii. 55 sq.; Mk. vi. 2 sq.: Lk. v. 21; vii. 39,49; Jn. vi. 42,52; vii. 15; or of admiration, Mt. xxi. 11; Actsix.21; οἵ, Wahl, Clavis apocryphor. V. T. p- 370% b. it refers to a subject immediately preceding, the one just named: Lk. i. 32; ii. 37 [RGL]; Jn. i. 2; vi. 71; 2 Tim. iii. 6,8, ete.; at the beginning of a narrative about one already mentioned, Mt. iii. 3; Lk. xvi. 1; Jn. i. 41 (42); ili. 2; xii. 21; xxi.…

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οὗτος. A few of the prepositional phrases with this common demonstrative pron. may be illustrated διὰ τοῦτο, ‘on this account,” cf. P Ryl IT. 845 (a.p. 146) τὴν ἄνεσιν τὴν διὰ τοῦτο γενομένην τῶν ὑπαρχόντων, “the ensuing remission “ OUT@S, O’.TO@ of the lands’ (Edd.): ἐκ τούτου, ‘for this reason,’’ Jn 6° cf. 26. 81°4 (c, A.D, 104) ἐκ τούτου δὲ [φανεῖρόν ἐστιν [καὶ] μηδένα χρῇζειν, “‘it is evident from this that nobody wants it’’ (Edd.), BGU 11. 423!7 (ason to his father—ii/a.D.) (= Selections, p. 91) με ἐπαίδευσας καλῶς, Kal ἐκ τούτου ἐλπίζω ταχὺ προκόσί-- par τῶν θε[ῶ]ν θελόντων, “you have brought me up well, and for this reason I hope to be quickly promoted, if the gods will”: τούτου ἕνεκα, ‘‘ for this purpose,” cf. P Oxy I. 1138 (ii/a.p.) ἐὰν δ᾽ dpa μή, ; ἅμα τῷ vide μου ἐξέρχομαι τούτου ἕνεκα, “otherwise I and my son will come for this purpose’’ (Edd.): ἐπὶ τούτων, ““upon this,” ‘in…

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οὗτος (ohutos) — this/he/she/it.

οὗτος, αὕτη, τοῦτο,

genitive τούτου, ταύτης, τούτου, etc.: the dual feminine never in Attic dialect, see ὁ, ἡ, τό, [near the start]:—demonstrative pronoun, this, common from [Refs 8th c.BC+]

__A ORIGIN and FORMS: οὗτος, αὕτη, τοῦτο probably arose from a reduplication of the demonstrative ὁ, ἡ, τό with insertion of -υ- (= Sanskrit Particle u), e.g. ταῦτα from τα-υ-τα: Doric dialect genitive singular feminine τούτας [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc., the latter is uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+], as genitive singular neuter οὕτω [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; accusative singular feminine οὕταν [Refs 6th c.BC+] —In _Attic dialect_ οὗτος was frequently strengthened by the _demonstrative_ -ί, οὑτοσί, αὑτηί, τουτί, _genitive_ τουτουί, _dative_ τουτῳί, _accusative_ τουτονί; plural nominative οὑτοιί, neuter ταυτί, etc., this man here…

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Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

οὗτος, αὕτη, τοῦτο

Dem.pr.

this, he, she, it

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

οὗτος houtos 1x

this, this person or thing, Mt. 3:3, 9, 17; 8:9; 10:2; 24:34, et al. freq.; used by way of contempt, this fellow, Mt. 13:55; 27:47; αὐτὸ τοῦτο, this very thing, this same thing, 2 Cor. 2:3; 7:11; εἰς αὐτὸ τοῦτο, and elliptically, αὐτὸ τοῦτο, for this same purpose, on this account, Eph. 6:18, 22; 2 Pet. 1:5; καὶ οὗτος, and moreover, Lk. 7:12; 16:1; 20:30; καὶ τοῦτο, and that too, 1 Cor. 6:6, 8; tοῦτο μὲν ... τοῦτο δέ, partly ... partly, Heb.…

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Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

οὗτος demonstr. Pron. this, Lat. hic, to designate the nearer of two things, opp. to ἐκεῖνος, the more remote (cf. ὅδε), Hom., etc.

when, of two things, one precedes and the other follows, ὅδε generally refers to what follows, οὗτος to what precedes, Soph., etc.

so also, οὗτος is used emphat., generally in contempt, while ἐκεῖνος (like Lat. ille) denotes praise, ὁ πάντ᾽ ἄναλκις οὗτος, i. e. Aegisthus, id. Soph.; οὗτος ἀνήρ Plat.; τούτους τοὺς συκοφάντας id. Plat.

in attic law-language, οὗτος is commonly applied to the opponent, whether plaintiff or defendant, whereas in Lat. hic was the client, iste the opponent, Dem.

often much like an adv., in local sense (cf. ὅδε init.), τίς δ᾽ οὗτος κατὰ νῆας ἔρχεαι; who art thou here that comest . . ? Il.; often in attic, τίς οὑτοσί; who's this…

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Dem-DPF — Demonstrative pronoun · dative · plural · feminine
dative — to, for, with — the one it is done to or by.
Agrees with anything else marked plural feminine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

D-DPF Part of Speech: Demonstrative pronoun Case: Dative Number: Plural Gender: Feminine

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
55%this
this55% · 781×these things16% · 231×these14% · 196×he3% · 49×other renderings5% · 73×other renderings7% · 94×

1,424 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 49 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
subject36%object32%adverbial26%predicate4%indirect object2%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 1,388 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
αὐτόςδέbut, on the otheλέγωI say, speak
διά
καίand, even, also,αὐτόςεἰμίI am, exist
ἐν
καίand, even, also,γάρforοὔτεNeg
αὐτός
λέγωI say, speakεἰςγάρfor
ὅτιthat, since, because
λέγωI say, speakοἶδαI know, rememberγράφωI write
οὗτοςthese1388×
what comes after →
Article the
λόγοςa word, speech, θεόςGod, a godἄνθρωποςa man, one of th
εἰμίI am, exist
Article theκαίand, even, also,ὅς
καίand, even, also, nam
Article theκατακρίνωI condemnεἰμίI am, exist
δέbut, on the other ha
λέγωI say, speakεἰμίI am, existαὐτός
λέγωI say, speak
σύArticle theαὐτός

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

Concordanceοὗτος · 1,388× in the New Testament
John Acts Luke Matthew Mark 1 Corinthians Romans Revelation Hebrews 2 Corinthians 1 John 2 Peter

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

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

Counted over the 2,054 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 The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 12c. AD 40

ἀλλ’ ὅ γε μέγας Μωυσῆς ἀλλοτριώτατον τοῦ ὁρατοῦ νομίσας εἶναι τὸ ἀγένητον — πᾶν γὰρ τὸ αἰσθητὸν ἐν γενέσει καὶ μεταβολαῖς οὐδέποτε κατὰ ταὐτὰ ὄν — τῷ μὲν ἀοράτῳ καὶ νοητῷ προσένειμεν ὡς ἀδελφὸν καὶ συγγενὲς ἀιδιότητα, τῷ δ’ αἰσθητῷ γένεσιν οἰκεῖον…

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

ὡς πύργος, ὃν οἱ παῖδες αὐτοῦ ἐφ' ὕβρει τοῦ θεοῦ ᾠκοδόμησαν, καὶ ὡς τὰς φωνὰς αὐτῶν μετέβαλε καὶ ὁ τόπος, ἐν ᾧ τοῦτο γέγονε, Βαβυλὼν ἐκλήθη.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.4c. AD 100

πεπεισμένος οὖν τοῦτο καὶ συνειδὼς ἐμαυτῷ, ὅτι ἐν ὑμῖν λαλήσας πολλὰ ἐπίσταμαι, ὅτι ἐμοὶ συνώδευσεν ἐν ὁδῷ δικαιοσύνης κύριος, καὶ πάντως ἀναγκάζομαι κἀγὼ εἰς τοῦτο, ἀγαπᾶν ὑμᾶς ὑπὲρ τὴν ψυχήν μου, ὅτι μεγάλη πίστις καὶ ἀγάπη ἐγκατοικεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν ἐπ’…

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

ὡς ἐτῶν μ χαλκοῦ τάλαντα δύο . προπωλητὴς καὶ βεβαιωτὴς τῶν κατὰ τὴν ὠνὴν ταύτην πάντων Πετεαρσεμθεὺς ὁ ἀποδόμενος, ὃν ἐδέξατο Πετεαρσεμθεὺς ὁ πριάμενος. Ἑρμίας ὁ παρὰ Πανίσκου κεχρημάτικα.

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

ὡς 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

BGU 3 1000Pathyris99 BC

εὐθύριν 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.

In these were lying a multitude great of those ailing, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for <the> of the water motion.
κατέκειτοkatakeimai were lying G2621 Verb · imperfect · no voice stated · indicative · third person · singular
12× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This verb means to lie down or recline, often for a meal or due to illness. In Mark 2 and Luke 5, it describes people reclining at Jesus' table.
Tyndale gloss
to recline
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

κατάκειμαι (katakeimai) means to lie down or recline, often in the context of being sick or resting. It can also refer to reclining at meals, as seen in several New Testament passages like Mark 1:30 and Luke 5:25. The word is built from the prefix κατά and the root κεῖμαι. Some entries note its use in various contexts, including lying idle or stored up, but no significant disagreements among lexicons are present.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

κατά-κειμαι,

[in LXX: Pr 6:9 23:34 (שׁכב), Jth 13:15, Wi 17:7*;]

to lie down.

to lie sick: Mk 1:30 2:4, Jo 5:6, Ac 28:8; seq. ἐπί c. gen., Ac 9:33; id. c. acc., Lk 5:25; ἐν, Jo 5:3.

to recline at meals (cf. ἀνάκειμαι): Mk 14:3, Lk 5:29; seq. ἐν, Mk 2:15, Lk 7:37, I Co 8:10.†

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

κατάκειμαι. For this verb used of one ill, as in Mk 189 a/., cf. P Ryl II. 685 (B.C. 89) [ore] διὰ τὰς πληγὰς ἀρρωστήσασα (/. --σαν) κατακεῖσαι (/. -κεῖσθαι) κινδυνεύρυσα (1. - σαν) τῶι βίωι, ‘the blows caused me to be laid up with sickness and my life is endangered ’’ (Edd.), P Tebt II. 422° (iii/A.D.) kataκιται, ‘‘she is laid up,’’ and see Field Mores, p. 25. The , κατακλαω word has a technical significance in P Oxy VII. 1040%* (a.D. 225) κύρια [τὰ γ]ράμματα δισσὰ γραφέντα ὡς ἐν [δ]ημοσίῳ κατακείμενα, ‘this bond, which is written in duplicate, is valid as if publicly registered” (Ed.), 73. X. 12571 (iii/A.D.) τῷ kar ἄνδρα τῷ ἐν δίη)μοσ[ίῳ κατα]κειμένῳ, “to the individual list lodged in the archives” (Edd.). See also P Strass I. 4129 (A.D. 250) δύο ταλάντ]ων παρ᾽ ἐκείνῳ κ[ατ]ακειμένων, “‘indem die zwei Talente bei ihm beruhten” (Ed.), and the contracted karak in Meyer Ostr 767 (A.D.…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

κατάκειμαι (katakeimai) — to recline.

κατάκειμαι,

Epic dialect 3rd.pers. plural κατακείαται [Refs 8th c.BC+]: Ionic dialect pluperfect κατεκέατο [Refs 5th c.BC+]; subjunctive -κέωμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, only in present and imperfect with future middle -κείσομαι:—lie down, μῆλα τὰ δὴ κατάκειτ᾽ ἐσφαγμένα [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ πλευρὰς κ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; νέκυς κ. [Refs 7th c.BC+]

2. lie hid, ἐν λόχμῃ.. κατέκειτο μέγας σῦς [Refs 8th c.BC+]

3. lie stored up, δοιοὶ γάρ τε πίθοι κατακείαται ἐν Διὸς οὔδει [Refs 8th c.BC+]

3. b to be deposited, of deeds in a registry, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]

4. lie sick, keep one's bed, [NT+5th c.BC+]; lie in bed, [NT+5th c.BC+]

5. lodge, reside, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

κατάκειμαι

katakeimai

from 2596 and 2749; to lie down, i.e. (by implication) be sick;

specially, to recline at a meal:--keep, lie, sit at meat (down).

see GREEK for 2596

see GREEK for 2749

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

κατάκειμαι

v.

I recline, am lying ill

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

κατάκειμαι katakeimai 12x

to lie, be in a recumbent position, be laid down, Mk. 1:30; 2:4; Lk. 5:25; Jn. 5:3, 6; Acts 9:33; 28:8; to recline at table, Mk. 2:15; 14:3; Lk. 5:29; 7:37; 1 Cor. 8:10*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

κατάκειμαι epic 3rd pl. κατακείαται ionic -κέαται subj. -κέωμαι Pass., only in pres. and imperf. fut. mid. -κείσομαι to lie down, lie outstretched, Hom., Ar.; κατακείω used as fut. of κατάκειμαι κατακείετε οἴκαδ᾽ ἰόντες, Od.; σπείσαντες κατακείομεν (epic for -κείωμεν), id. Od.; κακκείοντες ἔβαν (epic part.) they went to lie down, Hom.

to lie hid, lurk, Hom.

to lie stored up, Lat. reponi, Il., Hes.

to lie sick, Hdt.:— also to lie idle, Xen.

to recline at meals, Lat. accumbere, πῖνε, κατάκεισο Ar.

of land, to lie sloping to the sea (so Hor. Usticae cubantis), Pind.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-INI-3S — Verb · imperfect · no voice stated · indicative · third person · singular
imperfect no voice stated indicative — a continuing action in past time.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-INI-3S Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Imperfect Voice: middle or passive depoNent Mood: Indicative Person: third Number: Singular

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

li'-ing.

See LIE.

Nave's Topical Bible

→ Lying spirit from God 1Ki 22:21-23; 2Ch 18:20-22

→ See FALSEHOOD

→ See HYPOCRISY

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

- Forbidden

Le 19:11; Col 3:9

- Hateful to God

Pr 6:16-19

- An abomination to God

Pr 12:22

- A hindrance to prayer

Isa 59:2,3

- The devil, the father of

Joh 8:44

- The devil excites men to

1Ki 22:22; Ac 5:3

- SAINTS

. Hate

Ps 119:163; Pr 13:5

. Avoid

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
42%lying
lying42% · 5×reclining17% · 2×eating8% · 1×laying sick8% · 1×when is reclining8% · 1×he was lying8% · 1×reclines back8% · 1×

12 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 7 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 12 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
ΣίμωνSimon
πενθεράa mother-in-law
παραλυτικόςafflicted with paral
Article the
γίνομαιI come into being, a
καίand, even, also,
λεπρόςa leper
Article the
ὅς
ἐπί
κατάκειμαιwere lying12×
what comes after →
αὐτός
ἐνἔρχομαιI come, go
πυρέσσωI am sick with a fev
καίand, even, also,
ἀπέρχομαιI come or go away fr
εἰς
ἐν
Article the
πλῆθοςa multitude
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

Concordanceκατάκειμαι · 12× in the New Testament
Mark Luke Acts John 1 Corinthians
Across the New Testament5 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
Philo of AlexandriaOn Dreams 2.265c. AD 40

ἔστι δὲ καὶ τούτου δεῖγμα τὸ ἐν ταῖς ἱεραῖς ἀναγραφαῖς κατακείμενον, τὸ „κύριος πολεμήσει ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν, καὶ ὑμεῖς σιγήσεσθε“ (Exod.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 6.214c. AD 75–95

ἐπεὶ δὲ πάλιν αὐτὸν προσελθὸν τὸ δαιμόνιον ἐθορύβει πνεῦμα καὶ συνετάραττε, καλέσας εἰς τὸ δωμάτιον ἐν ᾧ κατέκειτο κατέχων τὸ δόρυ προσέταξε τῷ ψαλμῷ καὶ τοῖς ὕμνοις ἐξᾴδειν αὐτόν.

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 4th c. AD 1st c. BC 7th c. AD
P.Oslo 3 107AD 101–AD 125

οἰκονομίας μὴ διεστρῶσθαι τὸν Ψενοσῖριν Φο … μητρὸς Θενφατρῆτος Θενπνεφερῶτα Ψεντασεῦτος μητρὸς Θενφατρῆτος μηδὲ κατακεῖσθαι. καὶ τῇ α ἐπαγομένων τοῦ αὐτοῦ β ἔτους διʼ ἀγορανόμων μητροπόλεως ἡ Ταυσῖρις μετὰ

P.Stras. 4 256Selilais (Hermopolites)AD 132

τε χειρόγραφον τοῦτο κύριον ἔστω πάντῃ ἐπιφερόμενον καὶ παντὶ τῷ ἐπιφέροντι ὡς ἐν δημοσίῳ κατακείμενον. ἔτους ιϛ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Μεχὶρ κθ Ἑρμαῖος Ἑρμαίου ὁ καὶ τὸ

Stud.Pal. 22 69Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)AD 186–AD 187

τόδε τὸ χειρόγραφον δισσὸν ἐγράφη χωρὶς ἄλλων ὧν ὀφείλω σοι κύριον ὡς ἐν δημοσίῳ κατακείμενον … ἔτους κζ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Κομμόδου Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου

In these were lying a multitude great of those ailing, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for <the> of the water motion.
πλῆθοςplēthos a multitude G4128 Noun · nominative · singular · neuter
31× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
rarer in John than elsewhere in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word refers to a large group of people or things, like a crowd or multitude, as seen in Luke 2:13 and Acts 21:22. It can also describe a great number of something.
Amplified meaning
large, abundant
Tyndale gloss
multitude
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

πλῆθος is a neuter noun meaning a great number or multitude, often referring to crowds of people or large quantities of things. It appears in various contexts in the New Testament, such as in Luke and Acts, where it describes groups of people or large amounts of items. The word is built from the root related to fullness and magnitude, and it has been used since ancient Greek literature.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

πλῆθος, -ους, τό,

[in LXX chiefly for רֹב, also for הָמוֹן, etc.;]

a great number, a multitude;

of things: ἰχθύων, Lk 5:6, Jo 21:6; φρυγάνων, Ac 28:3; ἁμαρτιιῶν, Ja 5:20, I Pe 4:8; τ. πλήθει, in multitude, He 11:12;

of persons: Ac 21:22 (WH, R, om.); c. gen., Lk 2:13, Jo 5:3, Ac 5:14; π. πολύ (πολὺ π.), Mk 3:7, 8; id. c. gen., Lk 6:17 23:27,

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

πλῆθος is used (1) of things—P Hib I. 52ὅ (c. B.c. 245) τὰ P Lille I. 378 (B.c. 241-0) ἱκανὰ πλήθη, ‘‘des sommes considérables’’ (Ed.), P Tebt II. 2824 (late ii/p.c.) εἶ μὴ (ν) παρειληφέναι τὰ ὑπογεγρί(αμμένα) πλήθηι, “that 1 have in truth received the hereinafter mentioned amounts ἡ (Edd.), P Ryl IL. 1192? (a.D. 54-67) διὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν κατ᾽ ἔτος γενημάτων, “owing to its great yearly productivity ’’ (Edd.) ; and (2) of persons—Chrest, I. 11Ai 1! (B.C, 123) παραγενομένων τῶν αὐτῶν πληθῶν σὺν ὅπλοις, and P Tebt Il. 3104 (A.D. 186) τῷ πλήθι τῶν ἱερέων, ‘the corporation of priests ’’ (Edd.).

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

πλῆθος (plēthos) — multitude.

πλῆθος, εος, τό,

Doric dialect and [Refs 4th c.AD+] πλῆθος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect πλεῖθος [Refs]; pseudo-Doric dialect and pseudo-Aeolic dialect πλᾶθος [Refs 1st c.BC+] see at {πίμπλημι}):—great number, multitude, especially of people, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; στρατοῦ π., periphrastic for στρατὸς πολύς, [Refs]; ὡς πλήθει for the mass of men, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. τὸ π. the greater number, the mass, main body, τὸ π. τοῦ στρατοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ π. τῆς ψυχῆς the largest part of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]: as Noun of Multitude with plural Verb, Ἀθηναίων τὸ π. οἴονται [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ π. ἐψηφίσαντο πολεμεῖν the majority,[Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῷ π. by a majority, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence, people, population, σμικρὸν τὸ π. τῆσδε γῆς [Refs 5th…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

πλῆθος

plethos

from 4130; a fulness, i.e. a large number, throng, populace:--bundle,

company, multitude.

see GREEK for 4130

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

πλῆθος, ους, τό

n.n.

a multitude

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

πλῆθος plēthos 31x

fullness, amplitude, magnitude; a multitude, a great number, Lk. 1:10; 2:13; 5:6; a multitude, a crowd, throng, Mk. 3:7, 8; Lk. 6:17

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

πλῆθος πλῆθος, ος, εος, τό, πίμπλημι a great number, a throng, crowd, multitude, Il., Hdt., etc.

τὸ πλῆθος, the greater number, the greater part, the mass, main body, Hdt., Xen., etc.:— the majority, the people, like δῆμος, Lat. plebs, Hdt., attic: —also the populace, mob, Xen.

quantity or number, Hdt., attic; πλήθει παρόντες in force, Thuc.: —absol. in acc., κόσοι πλῆθος Hdt.; πλῆθος ἀνάριθμοι Aesch.

magnitude, size or extent, ὄρος πλήθεϊ μέγιστον Hdt.; πεδίον πλῆθος ἄπειρον id. Hdt., etc.

quantity or amount, Thuc., Plat., etc.

of Time, length, Thuc., etc.

with Preps., or with ὡς, in adv. sense, ἐς πλ. in great numbers, id. Thuc.: —ὡς πλήθει upon the whole, in general, Plat.; so, ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πλ. usually, mostly, Lat. ut plurimum, id.…

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Noun-NSN — Noun · nominative · singular · neuter
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked singular neuter.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

N-NSN Part of Speech: Noun Case: Nominative Number: Singular Gender: Neuter

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
88%multitude
multitude88% · 28×multitudes3% · 1×number3% · 1×crowd3% · 1×quantity3% · 1×other renderings0% · 0×

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
subject68%object19%adverbial13%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 31 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
ἅπαςall, the wholeπᾶςall, the whole, ἀπό
πολύςmuch, many, often
καίand, even, also,αὐτόςἝλληνa Hellene, a Gre
καλύπτωI veil, hide, concea
καίand, even, also,ἀγάπηlove
ΣιδώνSidon
καίand, even, also,
ἄγγελοςan angel, messenger
Article the
πλῆθοςa multitude31×
what comes after →
Article the
μαθητήςa learner, disciλαόςa people, the crπερίχωροςneighboring
καίand, even, also, nam
συγχέωI bewilder, stirἐκλέγωI choose, electἀκούωI hear, listen
πολύςmuch, many, often
ἀκούωI hear, listenArticle theγυνήa woman, wife, m
ἁμαρτίαa sin
ἀπό
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

Concordanceπλῆθος · 31× in the New Testament
Acts Luke John Mark 1 Peter Hebrews James
Across the New Testament7 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 121 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 Clement of Rome Ignatius of Antioch The Shepherd of Hermas
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 1.16c. AD 75–95

γέγονε γὰρ πρὸ ἐτῶν δισχιλίων, ἐφʼ ὅσον πλῆθος αἰῶνος οὐδʼ αὐτῶν οἱ ποιηταὶ τὰς γενέσεις τῶν θεῶν, μήτι γε τὰς τῶν ἀνθρώπων πράξεις ἢ τοὺς νόμους ἀνενεγκεῖν ἐτόλμησαν.

Clement of RomeFirst Clement 6.1c. AD 96

Τούτοις τοῖς ἀνδράσιν ὁσίως πολιτευσαμένοις συνηθροίσθη πολὺ πλῆθος ἐκλεκτῶν, οἵτινες πολλαῖς αἰκίαις καὶ βασάνοις διὰ ζῆλος παθόντες ὑπόδειγμα κάλλιστον ἐγένοντο ἐν ἡμῖν.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
3rd c. BC 2nd c. BC 2nd c. AD 1st c. AD 4th c. AD
P.Cair. Zen. 2 59297Arsinoites (?)251 BC

φδ γίνονται ἀργυρίου Βφδ χαλκοῦ Α γίνονται Γφδ καὶ παρὰ Ὥρου καπήλου οὗ τὸ πλῆθος ου … … ἐπισκεψαμ … ἂν ἦι ἀπὸ τούτου διαγράφομεν τῶι βασιλεῖ θρισσῶν τῶν

P.Cair. Zen. 3 59331Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)249 BC

Εὐκλεῖ … δοῦναι, ἵνα εἰδήσω μή τι πλέον ἀναφερόμενον … ἐάν τι κείμενόν μοι πλῆθος … … φερ … ου διὰ σὲ ἔσομαι σεσωμένος. οὐ γὰρ ἀγνοεῖς τοὺς

κε ἔτους μηνὸς … … ς ἄλλο δὲ προσγένημα … … … τοῦ προκειμένου πλήθους … Ὀμνύω βασιλέα Πτολεμαῖον … τὸν ἐγ βασιλέως Πτολεμαίου καὶ … … καὶ τοὺς

In these were lying a multitude great of those ailing, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for <the> of the water motion.
πολὺpolus great G4183 Adjective · nominative · singular · neuter
413× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means much or many, and is used to describe things like large crowds, as in Mark 5:24, or a great amount of time, as in Matthew 25:19. It emphasizes the magnitude of something.
Tyndale gloss
much
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

πολύς (polus) means much or many, covering a range of contexts from quantity to degree and value. It appears as an adjective and can also function as a noun or adverb. In the New Testament, it is used to describe large numbers of people or things, as seen in verses like Matthew 9:37 and John 6:10. The lexicons do not show significant disagreement on its meanings.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

πολύς, πολλή, πολύ,

[in LXX chiefly for רַב and cognate forms;]

as adj., much, many, great, of number, space, degree, value, time, etc.: ἀριθμός, Ac 11:21; ὄχλος, Mk 5:24; θερισμός, Mt 9:37; χόρτος, Jo 6:10; χρόνος, Mt 25:19; γογγυσμός, Jo 7:12; πόνος, Col 4:13; δόξα, Mt 24:30; σιγή, Ac 21:40; pl., προφῆται, Mt 13:17; ὄχλοι, Mt 4:25; δαιμόνια, Read the full entry →

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

πολύς, πολλή (fr. an older form πολλός, found in Hom., Hes., Pind.), πολύ; [(cf. Curtius § 375)]; Sept. chiefly for 39; much; used a. of multitude, number, etc., many, numerous, great: ἀριθμός, Acts xi. 21; λαός, Acts xviii. 10; ὄχλος, Mk. v. 24; vi. 34; [viii.1 LT Tr WH]; Lk. vii. 11; viii. 4; Jn. vi. 2,5; Rev. vii. 9; xix. 6, etc.; πλῆθος, Mk. iii. 7sq.; Lk. v. 6; Acts xiv. 1, ete.; 1. q. abundant, plenteous [A. V. often much], καρπός, Jn. xii. 24; xv. 5,8; θερισμός, (the harvest to be gathered), Mt. ix. 37; Lk. x. 2; γῆ, Mt. xiii. 5; Mk. iv. 5; χόρτος, Jn. vi. 10; οἶνος, 1 Tim. iii. 8; plur. πολλοὶ τελῶναι, Mt. ix. 10; Mk. ii. 15; πολλοὶ προφῆται, Mt. xiii. 17; Lk. x. 24; σοφοί, 1 Co. i. 26; πατέρες, 1 Co. iv. 15; δυνάμεις, Mt. vii. 22; xiii. 58, ete.; ὄχλοι, Mt. iv. 25; viii. 1; xii. 15 [but here L TWH om. Trbr. ὄχ.7; Lk. v. 15, ete.; δαιμόνια, Mk.i. 34; and in many otherexx.; with…

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

πολύς, “much,” plur. ‘‘many’’: P Petr I. 2905 (iii/B.c.) χάρις τοῖς θεοῖς πολλὴ εἰ ὑγιαίνεις, ‘‘much thanks to the gods if you are well,” P Ryl II. 2435 (ii/A.D.) τοῦτο οὐ μόνον ἡμεῖν yevapevov ἀλλὰ Kal πολλοῖς, ‘this has happened not to us only but to many ” (Edd.), and 16. 238* (A.p. 262) διὰ πολλὰς χρείας, “for various needs’ (Edd.). The word is very conimon in epistolary greetings (πολλὰ χαίρειν : exx. from B.C. 118 to ili/iv A.D. in Exler Eprstolography p. 27 f.) and in rhetorical prefaces (Sirach proem.), and consequently, as Cadbury suggests (in Jackson and Lake Beginnings of Christianity Part I. Vol. ii. p. 492 f.), πολλοί must not be pressed to mean “ἡ Ac 243, 10, For the adverbial πολλά, which ‘‘ lies between πολύ and πολλάκις : it is ‘much’ with the idea of plurality and repetition introduced’’ (Hort ad Jas 32), cf. P Heid 622 (iv/a.p.) (= Selections, p. 127) πολλὰ…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

πολύς (polus) — much.

πολύς,

Attic dialect πολλή, πολ; genitive πολλοῦ, ῆς, ou=; dative πολλῷ, ῇ, ; accusative πολύν, πολλήν, πολύ:—Ionic dialect πολλός [Refs 6th c.BC+], πολλή, πολλόν [Refs 6th c.BC+]; also in Trag., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; accusative πολλόν, πολλήν, πολλόν: [Refs 5th c.BC+] uses the Ionic dialect forms, but codices have πολύν [Refs 1st c.AD+]:—both sets of forms are found in Epic dialect, also genitive singular πολέος [Refs 8th c.BC+], once contraction πολεῖς [Refs]; dative πολέσι [Refs 8th c.BC+]; accusative πολέας (trisyllable) [Refs 8th c.BC+] (frequently with variant{πολεῖς} [Refs 8th c.BC+]; in later Epic dialect πολέες is used as feminine, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]:—Epic dialect also have πουλύς (once in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; these forms are found in codices of [Refs 5th c.BC+] — Lyric poetry and Trag. (Lyric poetry) sometimes use Epic dialect forms, dative singular…

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Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

πολύς, πολλή, πολύ

Adj

much, many, often

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

πολύς polys 416x

great in magnitude or quantity, much, large, Mt. 13:5; Jn. 3:23; 15:8; pl. many, Mt. 3:7; in time, long, Mt. 25:19; Mk. 6:35; Jn. 5:6; οἱ πολλοί, the many, the mass, Rom. 5:15; 12:5; 1 Cor. 10:33; τὸ πολύ, much, 2 Cor. 8:15; πολύ, as an adv., much, greatly, Mk. 12:27; Lk. 7:47; of…

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Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

πολύς the ionic declension πολλός, ή, όν is retained by the attic in all cases, except the nom. and acc. masc. and neut. Hom. uses both ionic and attic forms. of Number, many, opp. to ὀλίγος, Hom., etc.;— with nouns of multitude, πουλὺς ὅμιλος Od.; πολλὸν πλῆθος Hdt., etc.:—also of anything often repeated, πολλὸν ἦν τοῦτο τὸ ἔπος id. Hdt.; πολλὸς αἰνεόμενος id. Hdt.; τούτῳ πολλῷ χρήσεται τῷ λόγῳ often, Dem.

of Size, Degree, Force, much, mighty, great, Il., etc.; π. ὕπνος deep sleep, Od.; π. ὑμέναιος a loud song, Il., etc.:—rarely of a single person, μέγας καὶ πολλὸς ἐγένεο Hdt.; ἢν πολλῇ ῥυῇ if she flow with full stream, metaph. from a river, Eur.; πολλῷ ῥέοντι Dem.; from the wind, πολὺς ἔπνει was blowing strong, id. Dem.; often with a Partic., πολλὸς ἦν λισσόμενος…

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Adj-NSN — Adjective · nominative · singular · neuter
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked singular neuter.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

A-NSN Part of Speech: Adjective Case: Nominative Number: Singular Gender: Neuter

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
52%many
many52% · 196×great17% · 66×much17% · 65×many things6% · 21×other renderings6% · 23×other renderings2% · 7×

378 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 20 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
subject36%adverbial29%object22%predicate10%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 354 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,ὅςεἰς
καίand, even, also, nam
αὐτόςἀπώλειαdestruction, ruiἀπέρχομαιI come or go awa
ὄχλοςa crowd
αὐτόςὁράωI see, look uponκαίand, even, also,
δέbut, on the other ha
Article theὁράωI see, look uponμετά
αὐτός
παρακαλέωI summon, entreaἀκολουθέωI accompany, attλαλέωI speak, say
πολύςgreat413×
what comes after →
Article the
δέbut, on the otheπρῶτοςfirst, beforeσυναναβαίνωI go up with
καίand, even, also, nam
ὡςas, like as, howθεραπεύωI care for, atteεὐθέωςimmediately, soo
δέbut, on the other ha
εἰμίI am, existἐκτέραςa wonder, porten
γάρfor
ἔρχομαιI come, goεἰμίI am, existπάσχωI am acted upon,
μᾶλλονmore, rather
Article theκράζωI cry aloud, shrσύ

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

Concordanceπολύς · 413× in the New Testament
Acts Luke Mark Matthew John 2 Corinthians 1 Corinthians Romans Revelation Hebrews 1 Timothy 1 Thessalonians

Every reference is on the Strong's page.

Across the New Testament25 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 335 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 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 1.1c. AD 75–95

Τοῖς τὰς ἱστορίας συγγράφειν βουλομένοις οὐ μίαν οὐδὲ τὴν αὐτὴν ὁρῶ τῆς σπουδῆς γινομένην αἰτίαν, ἀλλὰ πολλὰς καὶ πλεῖστον ἀλλήλων διαφερούσας.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.4c. AD 100

πεπεισμένος οὖν τοῦτο καὶ συνειδὼς ἐμαυτῷ, ὅτι ἐν ὑμῖν λαλήσας πολλὰ ἐπίσταμαι, ὅτι ἐμοὶ συνώδευσεν ἐν ὁδῷ δικαιοσύνης κύριος, καὶ πάντως ἀναγκάζομαι κἀγὼ εἰς τοῦτο, ἀγαπᾶν ὑμᾶς ὑπὲρ τὴν ψυχήν μου, ὅτι μεγάλη πίστις καὶ ἀγάπη ἐγκατοικεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν ἐπ’…

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 4th c. AD 3rd c. AD 6th c. AD 3rd c. BC
P.Grenf. 1 38Pathyrites171 BC

τῶι προγεγραμμένωι ἱερῶι, ὁ ἐνκεκλημένος προσπηδήσας μοι ἐνώπιόν τινων ἔτυπτεν ἧι εἶχεν ῥάβδωι πληγαῖς πλειόσιν εἰς τὸ τυχὸν μέρος τοῦ σώματός μου. ὅ τε περιεβλήμην, ὀθόνιον κατέρηξεν, περὶ ὦν

P.Grenf. 1 42Diospolis Parva170 BC–169 BC

νυνὶ παρεφεδρευόντων ἐν Διὸς πόλει τῆι μικρᾶι ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν τῶι ἐν Πτολεμαίδι ὑπαίθρωι. πολλὰς χρείας μισθοφόρων ἱππέων παρεσχημένων ἡμῶν ἤδη πολλάκις κατὰ τὸν πόλεμον καὶ κινδύνους μεγάλους

μέρους ἡμίσους ἀπὸ ἐδάφους ἀμπελῶνος ἀρουρῶν β ἡμίσους ἢ ὅσαν ἂν ἦι ἐπὶ τὸ πλεῖον καὶ τοῦ ἀπὸ ἀπηλιώτου αὐτοῦ παραδείσου καὶ φρεάτων καὶ ἐποικίων καὶ ληνῶνος καὶ γῆς

In these were lying a multitude great of those ailing, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for <the> of the water motion.
τῶνho of those G3588 Article · genitive · plural · masculine
19,783× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John 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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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-GPM — Article · genitive · plural · masculine
genitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

T-GPM Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Genitive Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

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
of those19783×
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

In these were lying a multitude great of those ailing, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for <the> of the water motion.
ἀσθενούντων,astheneō ailing, G770 Verb · present · active · participle · genitive · plural · masculine
33× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in John than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
The Greek word for being weak or feeble describes a state of physical or moral weakness, as seen in Acts 20:35 and Romans 8:3, and can also refer to being sick or diseased, as in Matthew 25:36 and John 4:46. This concept is discussed in various New Testament passages, including 2 Corinthians and Philippians.
Amplified meaning
weak, feeble
Tyndale gloss
be weak: weak
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

ἀσθενέω (astheneo) means to be weak or sick, derived from the word for weakness, ἀσθενής. It encompasses a range of meanings from physical weakness and sickness to moral or spiritual feebleness. The New Testament uses it in various contexts, including references to illness (e.g., Matthew 25:36) and weakness in faith (e.g., Romans 14:1). Mounce notes its use in a metaphorical sense, indicating weakness in authority or power.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἀσθενέω, -ῶ

(< ἀσθενής),

[in LXX chiefly for כּשׁל;]

to be weak, feeble: Ac 20:35, Ro 8:3, II Co 11:21 12:10 13:4, 9; c. dat., πίστει (Cremer, 527), Ro 4:19 14:1; same implied, Ro 14:2, 21, I Co 8:11, 12, II Co 11:29; εἰς, II Co 13:3. Specif., of bodily debility, to be sick: Mt 25:36, 39, Lk 4:40, Jo 4:46 5:3, 7, 13 11:1-3, 6, Ac 9:37, Phl 2:26, 27, II Ti 4:20, Ja 5:14; οἱ ἀσθενοῦντες…

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

ἀσθενέω is too common to need many citations. There is a pathetically laconic ᾿Ασθενῶ between some household details and concluding salutations in an undated letter, BGU III. 82774 P Oxy IV. 725% (A.D. 183) is typical: a boy apprenticed to a weaver is to have 20 holidays a year for festivals, without loss of wages, ἐὰν δὲ πλείονας τούτων ἀργήστ [ἢ ἀσ]θενήσῃ ἢ ἀτακτήσῃ κτλ, “from idleness or ill-health or disobedience’ (Edd.), they must be made up, With the use of the verb in Mt 108 may be compared Sy// 5031° where a certain man is extolled because, in addition to other benefactions, παρέσχεν ἰατ]ρὸν τὸν θεραπεύσοντία τοὺς ἀσθενοῦντας ἐν rile] παν[ηγύρει]. See also P Par 5! (8.6. 114) ἀσθενῶν τοῖς ὄμμασι (so also P Leid Mi), 26. 63'¥. 122 (B.c, 165) κατὰ τῶν ἀσθενούντων καὶ μὴ δυναμένων ὑπουργεῖν, BGU III. 84432 (A.D. 83) κόπους γάρ po[t] παρέχει ἀσθενοῦντει. In ἀσθένημα δῦ P Lond 144 (?…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἀσθενέω (astheneō) — be weak: weak.

Included with: ἀσθέν-εια, ἡ,

want of strength, weakness, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially feebleness, sickliness, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. disease, sickness, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; δι᾽ ἀσθένειαν[NT]

3. ἀ. βίου poverty, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

4. in moral sense, feebleness, weakness, τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως[Refs 5th c.BC+] to be weak, feeble, sickly, ἀ. μέλη to be weak in limb, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. ἀσθένειαν [NT+5th c.BC+]; ἠσθένησε he fell sick, [Refs 4th c.BC+]sick man, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἠσθενηκότα[Refs 2nd c.BC+]

2. to be needy, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἠσθενηκότες, of those unable to pay taxes, [Refs 1st c.BC+]

3. with infinitive, to be too weak to do a thing, not to be able.., [Refs 1st c.AD+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἀσθενέω

astheneo

from 772; to be feeble (in any sense):--be diseased, impotent folk

(man), (be) sick, (be, be made) weak.

see GREEK for 772

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἀσθενέω

v.

I am weak, sick

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἀσθενέω astheneō 33x

to be weak, infirm, deficient in strength; to be inefficient, Rom. 8:3; 2 Cor. 13:3; to be sick, Mt. 25:36; met. to be weak in faith, to doubt, hesitate, be unsettled, timid, Rom. 14:1; 1 Cor. 8:9, 11, 12; 2 Cor. 11:29; to be deficient in authority, dignity, or power, be contemptible, 2 Cor. 11:21; 13:3, 9; to be afflicted, distressed, needy, Acts 20:35; 2 Cor. 12:10; 13:4, 9

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ἀσθενέω ἀσθενής to be weak, feeble, sickly, Eur., Thuc., etc.; ἠσθένησε he fell sick, Dem.

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

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

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
29%ailing
ailing29% · 10×being weak14% · 5×weak11% · 4×sick9% · 3×being sick6% · 2×having become sick3% · 1×having become weak3% · 1×it was weak3% · 1×other renderings23% · 8×

35 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 16 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
verb82%object6%adverbial6%predicate3%subject3%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 33 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
ἐπίτίθημιI put, placeπλῆθοςa multitude
ἐγώ
περιβάλλωI cast around, cὅτιthat, since, becγάρfor
ὅτιthat, since, because
ἀκούωI hear, listen
δέbut, on the other ha
Article the
οὐNeg
καίand, even, also,σύ
ἀσθενέωailing,33×
what comes after →
ἐν
ΚαφαρναούμPropArticle theὅς
καίand, even, also, nam
ἐπισκέπτομαιI look upon, visπαρακαλέωI summon, entreaοὐNeg
τότεthen
μένDisjδυνατόςpowerful, able,
Article the
πίστιςfaith, belief, t
θεραπεύωI care for, attend,
νεκρόςdead, a corpse

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

Concordanceἀσθενέω · 33× in the New Testament
John 2 Corinthians Romans Acts Matthew 1 Corinthians Philippians 2 Timothy James Luke Mark
Across the New Testament11 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 32 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 Clement of Rome
Philo of AlexandriaThat the Worse Attacks the Better 106c. AD 40

παυσαμένη γὰρ τοῦ διανέμειν καὶ κατακερματίζειν τὴν τροφὴν πολλοῖς ἐκγόνοις ἅτε ἱκανοῖς γεγονόσιν ἐξ ἑαυτῶν τρέφεσθαι, παρ’ ἣν αἰτίαν λιμώττουσα ἠσθένει, μόλις διακορὴς ἐγένετο, ὡς πιανθεῖσαν πάλιν ἀνηβῆσαι.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 3.170c. AD 75–95

τῶν οὖν κρίκων ἀσθενῶν ὄντων κατʼ αὐτοὺς ἐνεγκεῖν τὸ βάρος τῶν λίθων ἑτέρους δύο κρίκους μείζονας τῇ πέζῃ τοῦ ἐσσήνου ᾗπερ ἀνήκει πρὸς τὸν τράχηλον ἐμβεβηκότας τῷ ὑφάσματι ποιοῦσι, δεξομένους ἁλύσεις εἰργασμένας, αἳ συνῆσαν κατʼ ἄκρον τῶν ὤμων…

Clement of RomeFirst Clement 59.4c. AD 96

τοὺς ἐν θλίψει ἡμῶν σῶσον, τοὺς ταπεινοὺς ἐλέησον, τοὺς πεπτωκότας ἔγειρον, τοῖς δεομένοις ἐπιφάνηθι, τοὺς ἀσθενεῖς ἴασαι, τοὺς πλανωμένους τοῦ λαοῦ σου ἐπίστρεψον: χόρτασον τοὺς πεινῶντας, λύτρωσαι τοὺς δεσμίους ἡμῶν, ἐξανάστησον τοὺς ἀσθενοῦντας,…

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 4th c. AD 3rd c. BC
P.Aberd. 194AD 1–AD 100

γὰρ μόναι σε ἠρώτησε … ου χάριν ἀπηλλάγη δὲ … σήμερον ἀσθενῶν ἵνα … ἡμέρας πέντε ἐν τῆι … … ἕως κομ … ψω ἐσχηκέναι

O.Did. 338DidymoiAD 77–AD 90

Ἐπαφροδείτῳ τῷ ἀδελφῷ πλεῖστα χαίρειν· πέμπεις με μεμφόμενος ἄλλ’ οὐκ ἔγραψά σοι ὅτι ἀσθενῶ … … … ἐξάπινα ἐξῆλθεν … … ευς καὶ οὐ δεδύνημαι σοι … ης

P.Oxy. 76 5099OxyrhynchosAD 76–AD 125

εἰς τὴν πόλιν τῆι α τοῦ Ἁθὺρ μηνός, καὶ ἐλθὼν εὗρε τὴν ἀδελφὴν αὐτοῦ ἀσθενοῦσαν, καὶ μέχρι τούτου ἀσθενεῖ. οὐκ ἤθελον δὲ αὐτὸν σκυλῆναι καὶ καταπλεῦσαι, ἀλλὰ διεμα

In these were lying a multitude great of those ailing, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for <the> of the water motion.
τυφλῶν,tuphlos blind, G5185 Adjective · genitive · plural · masculine
50× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in John than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
In the Bible, this word means blind, either physically or spiritually, as seen in Matthew 9:27 and John 9:39-41. It describes a lack of sight or understanding. Jesus often healed the blind in his ministry.
Amplified meaning
physically or spiritually unable to see
Tyndale gloss
blind
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word τυφλός (i.e., *typhlos*) means 'blind' and can refer to both physical and metaphorical blindness. It appears frequently in the New Testament, often in contexts discussing spiritual or mental blindness, as seen in Matthew and John. The term is derived from a root meaning 'to raise a smoke,' suggesting a state of obscurity or darkness.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

τυφλός, -ή, -όν

[in LXX for עִוֵּר ;]

blind: as subst., ὁ τ., Mt 9:27, Mk 8:22, Lk 4:18 (LXX), Jo 5:3, al. Metaph.: Mt 15:14 23:16-26, Jo 9:39-41, Ro 2:19, II Pe 1:9, Re 3:17.

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

τυφλός, -od, 6, (τύφω, to raise a smoke; hence prop. ‘darkened by smoke’), fr. Hom. down, Sept. for 11y, blind ; a. prop.: Mt. ix. 27sq.; xi. 5; Mk. viii. 22 sq-; x. 46; Lk. vii. 21sq.; xiv. 13,21; Jn. ix. 1 sq. 13; x. 21, ete. b. as often in prof. auth. fr. Pind. down, mentally dlind: Mt. xv. 14; xxiii. 17,19, 24, 26; Jn. ix. 39-41; Ro. ii. 19; 2 Pet. i. 9; Rev. iii. 17.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

τυφλός (tuphlos) — blind.

τυφλός, ή, όν,

blind, once in [Refs 8th c.BC+], frequently in other writers; τυφλὸς ἐκ δεδορκότος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τ. Ἄρης, Πλοῦτος, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τ. ὄψις, ὀφθαλμοί, [Refs 5th c.BC+] blind to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; but τ. τῆς προνοίας lacking vision of the future, [Refs]; τὰ τ. τοῦ σώματος, i. e. one's back, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; καὶ τυφλῷ γε δῆλον even a blind man can see that, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. of the limbs of the blind, τ. πούς [Refs 5th c.BC+]; [βάκτρον], τοξεύματα, [Refs]

3. metaphorically of the other senses and the mind, τ. ἦτορ [Refs 5th c.BC+]

4. metaphorically, τ. ὄλβος [Refs 5th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

τυφλός

tuphlos

from, 5187; opaque (as if smoky), i.e. (by analogy) blind (physically

or mentally):--blind.

see GREEK for 5187

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

τυφλός, ή, όν

Adj

blind

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

τυφλός typhlos 50x

blind, Mt. 9:27, 28; 11:5; 12:22; met. mentally blind, Mt. 15:14; 23:16

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

τυφλός τυφλός, ή, όν τύφω blind, Il., etc.:—c. gen., τ. τινος blind to a thing, Xen.:— τὰ τυφλὰ τοῦ σώματος, i. e. one's back, id. Xen.:—of the limbs of the blind, τ. πούς, χείρ Eur.; cf. τυφλόπους.

of things, blind, dark, obscure, Aesch., Soph.; τ. σπιλάδες blind rocks, Anth.

of channels, blind, i. e. closed, choked with mud, Plut.

adv., τυφλῶς ἔχειν πρός τι to be blind to it, Plat.

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

A-GPM Part of Speech: Adjective Case: Genitive Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
Easton's Bible Dictionary

Blind

Blind beggars are frequently mentioned (Matt. 9:27; 12:22; 20:30; John 5:3). The blind are to be treated with compassion (Lev. 19:14; Deut. 27:18). Blindness was sometimes a punishment for disobedience (1 Sam. 11:2; Jer. 39:7), sometimes the effect of old age (Gen. 27:1; 1 Kings 14:4; 1 Sam. 4:15). Conquerors sometimes blinded their captives (2 Kings…

→ Cruelty to, forbidden Le 19:14; De 27:18

→ The taunting Jebusites, hated by David 2Sa 5:8

→ See BLINDNESS

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
90%blind
blind90% · 47×blind!6% · 3×other renderings4% · 2×

52 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
subject28%object26%predicate24%indirect object6%adverbial6%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 50 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
περιπατέωI walk, conduct μωρόςstupid, foolishἄφεσιςdeliverance, par
Article the
αὐτόςχείρa handφωνέωI crow, shout, s
εἰμίI am, exist
ὅτιthat, since, becὅςκαίand, even, also,
αὐτός
ἀφίημιI send away, relπροσέρχομαιI come near, conφέρωI carry, bear, b
ὁδηγόςa leader, guide
εἰμίI am, existσύ
τυφλόςblind,50×
what comes after →
καίand, even, also, nam
λέγωI say, speakχωλόςlame, deprived oκωφόςdumb, deaf
εἰμίI am, exist
ὁδηγόςa leader, guideἄρτιnow, just nowοὐNeg
γεννάωI beget, bring forth
πῶς
ἀναβλέπωI look up, recover m
καίand, even, also,χωλόςlame, deprived o
τυφλόςblind
δέbut, on the otheὁδηγέωI lead, guide

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

Concordanceτυφλός · 50× in the New Testament
Matthew John Luke Mark 2 Peter Acts Revelation Romans
Across the New Testament8 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 Josephus The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaAllegorical Interpretation of Genesis 3.91c. AD 40

ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἐναύλους ἔχει καὶ ἐναργεῖς τὰς καταλήψεις, ὡς μηδὲ ἀγνοίᾳ διαμαρτεῖν, ἀναμνήσεως δὲ λήθη πάντως προηγεῖται, πηρὸν καὶ τυφλὸν πρᾶγμα.

JosephusAgainst Apion 2.15c. AD 75–95

τὰ δὲ δὴ τῶν χρόνων, ἐν οἷς φησι τὸν Μωσῆν ἐξαγαγεῖν τοὺς λεπρῶντας καὶ τυφλοὺς καὶ τὰς βάσεις πεπηρωμένους, σφόδρα δὴ τοῖς πρὸ αὐτοῦ συμπεφώνηκεν, ὡς οἶμαι, ὁ γραμματικὸς ὁ ἀκριβής.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 14.7c. AD 100

λέγει οὖν ὁ προφήτης: Ἐγὼ κύριος, ὁ θεός σου, ἐκάλεσά σε ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ καὶ κρατήσω τῆς χειρός σου καὶ ἐνισχύσω σε, καὶ ἔδωκά σε εἰς διαθήκην γένους, εἰς φῶς ἐθνῶν ἀνοῖξαι ὀφθαλμοὺς τυφλῶν καὶ ἐξαγαγεῖν ἐκ δεσμῶν πεπεδημένους καὶ ἐξ οἴκου φυλακῆς…

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
3rd c. AD 1st c. AD 4th c. AD 7th c. AD 1st c. BC
BGU 14 2425Herakleopolites101 BC–2 BC

Σιεφμοῦς Χαλεῖβις Παψαλις Πρυης σκυτεύς Σωτήριχος Ἱππάλου Σαλάμων Κέννις Ἀσφεῦς Τακωνος Πανκράτης Ὀννῶφρις ἀδελφός Τυφλὸς ἀλέτης Πέτων ὀνηλάτης Σαλάμων Πολῆμις Κεφαλᾶς Νωείτης γίνονται ἄνδρες κζ γεωργῶν πρὸς χώματα ἀνδρῶν

P. Princ. 3 171AD 1–AD 100

οιπον οφ … … ς οπτον … … ητηι … … ουτω … … τυφλον … … … αι κω … … μεν

O.Elkab 147EileithyiopolisAD 1–AD 200

Ψενοντῆρις Μάριος Ἰουλίου Τύφλος Ἁρσιήσιος Ψενσενμῖνις Πετεχνοῦμις … η Παβοῦς Ψενπ … η Πετε … υφις Ψενοντήριος Ψεναπάθης

In these were lying a multitude great of those ailing, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for <the> of the water motion.
χωλῶν,chōlos lame, G5560 Adjective · genitive · plural · masculine
14× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word describes someone who is lame or crippled, used in Matthew 11:5 to describe those healed by Jesus.
Amplified meaning
crippled
Tyndale gloss
lame
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word χωλός (cholos) means 'lame' or 'halt,' specifically referring to someone who limps or is crippled. It can also be used metaphorically to describe something that is defective or imperfect. The New Testament uses this term in various contexts, including physical ailments and spiritual weaknesses.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

χωλός, -ή, -όν

[in LXX for פִּסֵּחַ ;]

lame, halt, maimed: Mt 11:5 15:30, 31 18:8 21:14, Mk 9:45, Lk 7:22 14:13, 21, Jo 5:3, Ac 3:2 8:7 14:8, He 12:13.†

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

χωλός, -7, -όν, fr. Hom. down, Sept. for md3, lame : Acts iii. 2, 11 Rec.; xiv. 8; plur., Mt. xi. 5; xv. 30sq.; xxi. 14; Lk. vii. 225 xiv. 18, 21; Jn.v.3; Acts vill. 7; τὸ χωλόν, Heb. xii. 13 (on which see ἐκτρέπω, 1). deprived of a foot, maimed, [A. V. halt]: Mt. xviii. 8; Mk. ix. 45.

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

χωλός, “lame.” A good ex. of this adj. is afforded by the personal description in a note of sale, Preisigke 428° (B.C. 99) εὐθύρ(ινος) ὑποσκνιφο[ῦ] χωλ[οῦ, “‘straightnosed, near-sighted, lame.” See also BGU IV. 1196% (B.c. 10), III. 712+ 8120 (ji/a.p.), and P Cairo Goodsp 30 =1.21 (A.D. 191-2), and for a metaph. usage Herodas I. 71 (ed. Headlam)— χωλὴν δ᾽ ἀείδειν χώλ᾽ ἂν ἐξεπαίδευσα, {1 would have taught her to sing her lame song to a limp.” g g g Pp.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

χωλός (chōlos) — lame.

χωλός, ή, όν,

lame in the feet, halting, limping, with accusative, χωλὸς δ᾽ ἕτερον πόδα [Refs 8th c.BC+]; also with dative, σκέλει χωλός [Refs 1st c.AD+]: later also of the hand, like{κυλλός}, χωλὸς τὴν χεῖρα [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. metaphorically, defective, φύσις [Refs 5th c.BC+]; one-sided, [Refs]; βασιλεία Oracle texts cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.2. of metre, especially of the χωλίαμβος (which see), halting, μέτρον [Refs 4th c.BC+]; also of a trochaic metre, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]

II.3. ἀείδειν χωλά, of a 'lame tale', [Refs 3rd c.BC+]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

χωλός

cholos

apparently a primary word; "halt", i.e. limping:--cripple, halt, lame.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

χωλός, ή, όν

Adj

lame, deprived of a foot

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

χωλός chōlos 14x

crippled in the feet, limping, halting, lame, Mt. 11:5; 15:30, 31; met. limping, weak, spiritually, Heb. 12:13; maimed, deprived of a foot, for ἀναπηρός, Mk. 9:45

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

χωλός χωλός, ή, όν lame in the feet, halting, limping, χωλὸς πόδα Hom.; χωλὸς ἀμφοτέροις (sc. ποσί) Luc.

metaph. maimed, imperfect, defective, Lat. mancus, Plat., Xen.

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

A-GPM Part of Speech: Adjective Case: Genitive Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

lam (piceach, nakheh; cholos):

(1) The condition of being unable or imperfectly able to walk, which unfitted any descendant of Aaron so afflicted for service in the priesthood (Le 21:18), and rendered an animal unsuitable for sacrifice (De 15:21). The offering of animals so blemished was one of the sins with which Malachi charges the negligent Jews of his time (Mal 1:8-13).

(2) Those who suffered from lameness, such as Mephibosheth, whose limbs were injured by a fall in childhood (2Sa 4:4; 9:3). In the prophetic description of the completeness of the victory of the returning Israelites, it is predicted that the lame shall be made whole and shall leap like a hart (

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
100%lame
lame100% · 15×

15 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.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
subject50%object21%adverbial14%predicate14%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 14 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
τυφλόςblindἀναβλέπωI look up, recovὑγιήςsound, whole, wh
ἑαυτοῦ
μετά
Disj
κυλλόςcrippled, lame
ζωήlife
Article the
ἀναβλέπωI look up, recover m
τυφλόςblind
χωλόςlame,14×
what comes after →
περιπατέωI walk, conduct my l
λεπρόςa leperκαίand, even, also,
Disj
δύοArticle the
ἐκ
κοιλίαbelly, womb, the
κυλλόςcrippled, lame
τυφλόςblind
ἐν
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

Concordanceχωλός · 14× in the New Testament
Matthew Acts Luke Hebrews John Mark
Across the New Testament6 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
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 Philo of Alexandria
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Eternity of the World 127c. AD 40

ἀτροφῆσαν γὰρ αὐτίκα σβέννυται, χωλόν, ᾗ φασιν οἱ ποιηταί, γεγονὸς ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ·

JosephusAgainst Apion 2.23c. AD 75–95

ἀλλʼ εἰ μὲν ἦσαν ἐκεῖνοι τυφλοὶ καὶ χωλοὶ καὶ πάντα τρόπον νοσοῦντες ὁποίους αὐτοὺς εἶναί φησιν Ἀπίων, οὐδʼ ἂν μιᾶς ἡμέρας προελθεῖν ὁδὸν ἠδυνήθησαν·

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
4th c. AD 1st c. AD 2nd c. AD 6th c. AD 1st c. BC
BGU 16 2614Herakleopolites22 BC–AD 5

τῶν ἐν πρώτοις σοι … ἐγβησομένων θαιαναμλη ἐρωτῶ δέ σέ μοι πέμψασθαι Ἡρακλῆν τὸν χωλὸν ἄλογος ησ … ι αὐτὸν καὶ νῦν γενέσθαι. … … … … ημ

P.Corn. 22Philadelphia (Arsinoites)AD 1–AD 25

αὐλητής Σαμβᾶς … ετβε … νθος Ἡρᾶς αὐλητής Π … ιρεος Ἡρακλήου Ἐργεῦς χωλός Πετεαμούνεος χαλκεύς Πετεσοῦχος Ω … Σ … εικος Τανίτης … ρις Βακχιώτης Σισώεις ἀδελφός

π … αὐτῶι τὸ ἀργύριον τῶν … ων καὶ ὁ ἐν τῆι παρεμβολῆι χωλὸς δούς σοι τὰς τρεῖς λεκτίκας κράζει λέγων οὐδὲν ἄλλο τι ἢ ἐνιαύσιος χρόνος, ἀφʼ

In these were lying a multitude great of those ailing, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for <the> of the water motion.
ξηρῶνxēros paralyzed G3584 Adjective · genitive · plural · masculine
8× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word describes something that is dry or withered, like a barren landscape. Jesus used it in Luke 23:31 to describe a withered tree. It also appears in Matthew 12:10 and Mark 3:3.
Amplified meaning
completely unable to move
Tyndale gloss
dried up/withered
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

ξηρός is an adjective meaning 'dry' or 'withered.' It can describe dry land, parts of the body that are shriveled, or even metaphorically refer to a sinner. The New Testament uses it in contexts like the withered hand (Matthew 12:10) and dry land (Matthew 23:15; Hebrews 11:29). The entries do not show significant disagreement.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ξηρός, -ά, -όν,

[in LXX chiefly for יָבֵשׁ, its parts and derivatives, also for חָרָבָה, etc.;]

dry: metaph. (of a sinner), ξύλον ξ., Lk 23:31; of members of the body shrunken by disease, withered: Jo 5:3; of the hand, Mt 12:10, Mk 3:3, Lk 6:6, 8; of the dry land, ἡ ξηρά (sc. γῆ, cf. Ge 1:9, 10; Jh 1:19, al.): Mt 23:15; γῆ, He 11:29.†

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

ξηρός, -d, -ov, fr. Hdt. down, dry: τὸ ξύλον, Lk. xxiii 31 (in a proverb. saying, ‘if a good man is treated τὸ, what will be done to the wicked ?’ ef. Ps.i. 3; Ezek. xx. 47. Is. ἵν]. 3; Ezek. xvii. 24) ; of members of the body deprived of their natural juices, shrunk, wasted, withered : as χείρ, Mt. xii. 10; Mk. iii. 3 L T Tr WH; Lk. vi. 6,8; men are spoken of as ξηροί, withered, Jn. v. 3. of the land in distinction from water, ἡ ξηρά sc. γῆ (Sept. for nwa, Gen. i. 9 sq.; Jon.i. 9; ii. 11, and often [W. 18: 592 (550)]): Mt. xxiii. 15; Heb. xi. 29 where L T Tr WH add γῆς.

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

ξηρός. P Petr III. 62 (6)7 (Ptol.) χόρτον ξηροῦ, P Oxy ΙΧ. 11884 (A.D. 13) κλάδους ξηρο(ύς), 20. IV. 736% (c. A.D. 1) σεμιδάρί-- λ)εως ξηρᾶς (ἡμιωβέλιον), ‘for dry meal ᾧ ob.”, P Tebt II. 31428 (ii/A.D.) Kopéov ξηρο[ῦ, ““ dried coriander,” and the oracle Kazbel 103914 ξηρῶν ἀπὸ κλάδων καρπὸν οὐκ ἔσται λα[βεῖν. For the subst. ξηρασία, see P Tebt IT. 3709 (A.D. 128) χόρτον els κοπὴν καὶ ξηρασ[ί]αν, ‘grass The president | | for cutting and drying,’ 7m A , | τῷ πλινθουργίῳ κοπήτω.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ξηρός (xēros) — dried up/withered.

ξηρός, ά, όν,

dry, opposed to ὑγρός, of a dried-up river, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μέτρα ξ. τε καὶ ὑγρά dry and liquid measures, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ξ. γάλα, i.e. ripe cheese, [Refs]; so τυρὸς ξ., opposed to τυρὸς χλωρός, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐν ξηροῖσιν ἐκτρέφειν on solid food, i.e. cereals, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; καρπὸς ξ., i.e. cereal, opposed to κ. ξύλινος, produce of trees, i. e. fruit, wine, or oil, [Refs 5th c.BC+]hay, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; φοῖνιξ ξ. dried dates, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ξ. καρποί, opposed to οἶνος, ἔλαιον, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ξ. πυρίαι applications of dry heat, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare ξηροπυρία. adverb ξηρῶς by the use of dry powder, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ξηρός

xeros

from the base of 3582 (through the idea of scorching); arid; by

implication, shrunken, earth (as opposed to water):--dry land,

withered.

see GREEK for 3582

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ξηρός, ά, όν

Adj

dry, withered, dry land

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

χηρός xēros 8x

dry, withered, Lk. 23:31; ἡ χηρά, i.e. γῆ, the dry land, land, Mt. 23:15; Heb. 11:29; of parts of the body, withered, Mt. 12:10

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ξηρός ξηρός, ή, όν dry, Lat. siccus, opp. to ὑγρός, Hdt., Ar.; ξηροῖς ὄμμασι, Hor.'s siccis oculis, Aesch.

of bodily condition, withered, lean, haggard, δέμας Eur., Theocr.

like Lat. siccus, fasting, austere, harsh, Eur., Ar.; ἐν ξηροῖσιν ἐκτρέφειν Eur.

as Subst., ἡ ξηρά (sc. γῆ), dry land, Xen.; so, τὸ ξηρόν Hdt.; ναῦς ἐπὶ τοῦ ξηροῦ ποιεῖν to leave the ships aground, Thuc.

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

A-GPM Part of Speech: Adjective Case: Genitive Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
50%withered
withered50% · 4×dry38% · 3×paralyzed13% · 1×

8 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 3 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
second object25%object25%adverbial25%predicate13%subject13%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 8 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,ἀνήρa male human beiἐν
ἔχωI have, hold, posses
χείρa hand
εἰμίI am, exist
δεξιόςon the right han
χωλόςlame, deprived of a
τυφλόςblind
διά
ὡςas, like as, how
ξηρόςparalyzed
what comes after →
καίand, even, also, nam
ἐπερωτάωI interrogate, q
ποιέωI do, make
εἷςone
ἐγείρωI wake, arouse, rais
εἰς
ἔχωI have, hold, posses
Article the
τίςIrg
γίνομαιI come into bein

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

Concordanceξηρός · 8× in the New Testament
Luke Matthew Hebrews John Mark
Across the New Testament5 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 23 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 Philo of Alexandria Josephus Clement of Rome
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 39c. AD 40

ταῦτα διαταξάμενος ὀνόματ’ αὐτοῖς ἐτίθετο, τὴν μὲν ξηρὰν καλῶν γῆν,

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 5.249c. AD 75–95

ἔφθη τε τὴν διάνοιαν αὐτῶν Ἀβιμέλεχος μαθὼν ἐλθεῖν ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς μετὰ τῆς δυνάμεως καὶ φακέλλους ὕλης ξηρᾶς περιβαλὼν τῷ χωρίῳ διʼ αὐτοῦ φέρων ταῦτα ποιεῖν τὴν στρατιὰν παρεκελεύσατο.

Clement of RomeFirst Clement 24.5c. AD 96

ἐξῆλθεν ὁ σπείρων καὶ ἔβαλεν εἰς τὴν γῆν ἕκαστον τῶν σπερμάτων, ἅτινα πεσόντα εἰς τὴν γῆν ξηρὰ καὶ γυμνὰ διαλύεται: εἶτ̓ ἐκ τῆς διαλύσεως ἡ μεγαλειότης τῆς προνοίας τοῦ δεσπότου ἀνίστησιν αὐτά, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ἑνὸς πλείονα αὔξει καὶ ἐκφέρει καρπόν.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 6th c. AD 3rd c. AD 3rd c. BC 4th c. AD
P. Fay. 331 Vo descr.Theadelphia (Arsinoites)AD 125–AD 126

v ὑγροῦ λίτρον ξηρᾶς ὀβολ ιϛ ἀλιχευτρίδος σιλελια ἀποσφηνομα … βίβλους ὀβολ β ἰρια ξηρομύρου μύρου Κοπρῆτος ὀστοινα

P. Tebt. 2 450 descr.Tebtynis (Arsinoites)AD 141

μέτρῳ … χοινίκωι ἑρμηνέως τῆς κώμης, καὶ θαλλῶν ἐπὶ τὴν … κατʼ ἔτος σκόρδων ξηρῶν δεκα… πάντων ἀνυπολόγων καὶ ἀκινδύνων· ἄγων τὰ κατʼ ἔτος γεωργικὰ ἔργα πάντα ὅσα καθήκει,

P.Ross.Georg. 2 19OxyrhynchosAD 141

δεσμῶν δύο καὶ ῥόας εἴκοσι καὶ ἐλαίας μελαίνης ἀρτάβης τετάρτου χοινίκων δύο , περσικῶν ξηρῶν ἀρταβῶν ἑκατὸν, σύκων διακοσίων , μυξῶν ξηρῶν χοινικὰς ὀκτὼ , ἀκίνδυνα πάντα παντὸς κινδύνου

In these were lying a multitude great of those ailing, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for <the> of the water motion.
ἐκδεχομένωνekdechomai waiting for G1551 Verb · present · no voice stated · participle · genitive · plural · masculine
7× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means to wait for or expect something, like waiting for a promise to be fulfilled. It appears in John 5:3, Hebrews 11:10, and James 5:7, where people wait for God's timing.
Tyndale gloss
to wait for
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ἐκδέχομαι (ekdechomai) is composed of the prefix ἐκ meaning 'from' and the root δέχομαι meaning 'to receive.' It primarily means to receive from another or to expect and wait for something. In the New Testament, it appears in verses such as Acts 17:16 and Hebrews 11:10. The lexicons agree on its meanings, with no significant disagreements noted.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἐκ-δέχομαι

[in LXX for עֶרֶב, קָבַץ, etc. ;]

to take or receive from (Hom., Hdt., a1.).

(Rare in cl.), to expect, await: c. acc rei, Jo 5:3, He 11:10, Ja 5:7; c. acc pers., Ac 17:16, I Co 11:33 16:11; seq. ἕως, He 10:13 (Cremer, 687).†

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

ἐκ-δέχομαι ; impf. efedexounv; (ἐκ from some person or quarter) ; 1. to receive, accept, ([Hom.], Aeschyl., Hadt., sqq-). 2. to look for, expect, wait for, await: τί, Jn. ν. 8 RL; Heb. xi. 10; Jas. v.7; τινά, Acts xvii. 16; 1 Co. xvi. 11; ἀλλήλους ἐκδέχεσθε wait for one another, 56. until each shall have received his food, 1 Co. xi. 33, cf. 21; foll. by ἕως etc. Heb. x. 13; [absol. 1 Pet. iii. 20 Ree., but see Tdf.’s note ad loc.]. Rarely with this meaning in prof. auth., as Soph. Phil. 123; Apollod. 1,9, 27§ 8; ἕως ἂν γένηταί τι, Dion. Hal. 6,67. [Comp.: ἀπ-εκδέχομαι. Cf. δέχομαι, fin. ]

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἐκδέχομαι (ekdechomai) — to wait for.

ἐκδέχομαι,

Ionic dialect ἐκδέκ-, Epic dialect 3rd.pers. plural ἐκδέχαται [Refs 3rd c.AD+]: future ἐκδερμᾰτ-δέξομαι: —passive (see. below[Refs]

I. mostly of persons,

I.1. take or receive from another, οἵ οἱ σάκος ἐξεδέχοντο [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a beacon-fire, τρίτον Ἀθῷον αἶπος..ἐξεδέξατο [Refs]; ἐ. τὴν αἰτίαν take it on oneself, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

I.2. of a successor, ἐ. τὴν βασιληΐην [Refs 5th c.BC+] succeeded, [Refs]; παῖς παρὰ πατρὸς ἐκδεκόμενος τὴν ἀρχήν, [τὴν τέχνην], [Refs]; so ἐκδεξάμενοι (i.e. τὴν μάχην) [Refs]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἐκδέχομαι

ekdechomai

from 1537 and 1209; to accept from some source, i.e. (by implication)

to await:--expect, look (tarry) for, wait (for).

see GREEK for 1537

see GREEK for 1209

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἐκδέχομαι

v.

I wait for, expect

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἐκδέχομαι ekdechomai 6x

pr. to receive from another; to expect, look for, Acts 17:16; to wait for, to wait, 1 Cor. 11:33; 16:11; Heb. 11:10; 10:13; Jas. 5:7*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ἐκδέχομαι ionic ἐκδέκ- fut. -δέξομαι Dep.:

mostly of persons,

to take or receive from another, τί τινι Il., Aesch.

to take up, of a successor, τὴν ἀρχὴν παρά τινος Hdt., etc.; often also with the acc. omitted, ἐξεδέξατο Σαδυάττης (sc. τὴν βασιληΐην) he succeeded, id. Hdt.

to take up the argument, ὥσπερ σφαῖραν ἐκδ. τὸν λόγον Plat.

to wait for, expect, Soph.

of events, to await, Lat. excipere, Hdt.

of contiguous countries, to come next, id. Hdt.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-PNP-GPM — Verb · present · no voice stated · participle · genitive · plural · masculine
genitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-PNP-GPM Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Present Voice: middle or passive depoNent Mood: Participle Case: Genitive Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

for (ki (conjunction), le, from 'el (preposition), and various other words. In the New Testament also the words are various, chiefly gar, kai gar, hoti (conjunctions); anti apo eis dia (accusative), epi (dative and accusative), peri (genitive), pros (genitive and accusative), huper (genitive) (prepositions)): the English Revised Version and the American Standard Revised Version give in many cases more literal or more accurate renderings than those in the King James Version.

In the New Testament the most important preps. from a doctrinal point of view are anti, "face to face," "over against," "instead," "on behalf of," peri, "around," "about," "concerning," huper, "over," "on behalf of." The first has been claimed as stating the substitutionary nature of Christ's sacrifice as contrasted with huper and peri, more frequently used of it. But, although anti in the New Testament often means…

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
29%waiting for
waiting for29% · 2×do wait for14% · 1×i am expecting14% · 1×awaiting14% · 1×he was awaiting14% · 1×awaits14% · 1×

7 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 6 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 7 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
ξηρόςdry, withered, dry l
χωλόςlame, deprived o
ἈθῆναιAthens
Article the
ἀλλήλων
ἐσθίωI eat
ἐγώ
πρός
λοιπόςleft, left behind, t
Article the
ἐκδέχομαιwaiting for
what comes after →
Article the
Article theτίμιοςof great price,
γάρfor
αὐτόςArticle the
αὐτός
Article the
ἕωςuntil, as far as
τίθημιI put, place

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

Concordanceἐκδέχομαι · 7× in the New Testament
1 Corinthians Hebrews Acts James John
Across the New Testament5 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 Clement of Rome The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaAllegorical Interpretation of Genesis 3.12c. AD 40

2, 15), τῇ κρίσει τῶν φύσεως πραγμάτων, „καὶ ἐκάθισεν ἐπὶ τοῦ φρέατος", ἐκδεχόμενος τί ὁ θεὸς ἀνομβρήσει πότιμον τῇ διψώσῃ καὶ ποθούσῃ ψυχῇ τὸ ἀγαθόν.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 2.47c. AD 75–95

εἴτε γὰρ δευτέραν δέησιν ἐξεδέχετο, ταύτην γεγονέναι καὶ μετὰ πλείονος σπουδῆς·

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 10.11c. AD 100

ὅτι ὁ δίκαιος καὶ ἐν τούτῳ τῷ κόσμῳ περιπατεῖ καὶ τὸν ἅγιον αἰῶνα ἐκδέχεται.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
6th c. AD 1st c. AD 1st c. BC 2nd c. AD 4th c. AD
BGU 16 2631Herakleopolites10 BC

ἀνέβη· ἐὰν οὖν σοι φαίνηται εὐθέως ἀνάγκασον ἐξορμῆσαι ἵνα καὶ αὐτὸς μὴ παραποδισθῶ· ἐκδέχομαι παρʼ αὐτὸν ἕξ· Ἀσκλάπων δέ μοι συμβούλευσε ευκλ … συνήγορον παραστῆσαι· ἄτερ οὖν τῆς

r Διογένης Γάμωι τῶι ἀδελφῶι πλεῖστα χαίρειν. μίαν ἐκ μιᾶς σὲ ἐκδεχόμενος, ἄγε ἐπιστολίδιόν μοι πέμψαι. ἐρωτῶ σὲ καὶ παρακαλῶ ἐπιστολίδιόν μοι ἀπόστειλον ἵνα ἀναψύξω καὶ

BGU 3 892HermopolitesAD 101–AD 200

Θέωνος ἀπὸ Πακὴ περὶ τῆς σῆς ἐπιδημίας εἰς Πακὴ καὶ προσέδρευσα ἐφʼ ἡμέρας δύο ἐκδεχόμενός σε καὶ διὰ τὸ τοῦτο οὐκ ἐδυνήθην παραγενέσθαι εἰς Τοοὺ Πασκώ· νῦν μὲν εἰ

In these were lying a multitude great of those ailing, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for <the> of the water motion.
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 John 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-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
<the>19783×
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

In these were lying a multitude great of those ailing, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for <the> of the water motion.
τοῦho of the G3588 Article · genitive · singular · neuter
19,783× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John 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-GSN — Article · genitive · singular · neuter
genitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked singular neuter.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

T-GSN Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Genitive Number: Singular Gender: Neuter

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ov:

(1) In Anglo-Saxon, had the meaning "from," "away from" (as the strengthened form "off" has still), and was not used for genitive or possessive relations, these being expressed by special case-forms. In the Norman period, however, "of" was taken to represent the French de (a use well developed by the time of Chaucer), and in the Elizabethan period both senses of "of" were in common use. But after about 1600 the later force of the word became predominant, and in the earlier sense (which is now practically obsolete) it was replaced by other prepositions. In consequence the King James Version (and in some cases the Revised Version (British and American)) contains many uses of "of" that are no longer familiar--most of them, to be sure, causing no difficulty, but there still being a few responsible for real obscurities.

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

OF, preposition ov. [Gr.]

1. From or out of; proceeding from, as the cause, source, means, author or agent bestowing.

I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you. 1 Corinthians 11:1.

For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts. Joshua 11:1.

It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed.

Lamentations 3:1.

The whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Proverbs 16:1.

Go, inquire of the Lord for me. 2 Chronicles 34:2.

That holy thing that shall be born of thee. Luke 1:1.

Hence of is the sign of the genitive case, the case that denotes production; as the son of man, the son proceeding from man, produced from man. This is the primary sense, although we now say, produced by man. 'Part of these were slain; ' that is, a number separate, for part denotes a division; the sense then is, a number from or out of the whole were slain. So also, 'some of these were slain; ' that is…

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
of 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

In these were lying a multitude great of those ailing, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for <the> of the water motion.
ὕδατοςhudōr, hudatos water G5204 Noun · genitive · singular · neuter
79× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in John than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
Water refers to literal or figurative water, as seen in Matthew 3:16 and John 4:7. It can also be used in a spiritual sense, such as in baptism or as a symbol of life.
Tyndale gloss
water
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ὕδωρ (lemma: hudor) means 'water' and is used in various contexts, including literal and metaphorical senses. It appears frequently in the New Testament, often in relation to baptism, spiritual refreshment, and contrasts with elements like wine and blood. The word can also refer to different types of water, such as rainwater or water from wells and rivers.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ὕδωρ

gen., ὕδατος, τό,

[in LXX chiefly for מַיִם ;]

water: Mt 3:16, Mk 1:10, Lk 7:44, Jo 4:7, Ja 3:12, Re 8:10, al.; pl., Mt 14:28, 29, Jo 3:23, Re 1:15, al.; βαπτίζειν (ἐν) ὕδατι, Mt 3:11, Mk 1:8, Jo 1:26, al.; τ. λουτρὸν τοῦ ὕ., Eph 5:26; opp. to οἴνος, Jo 2:9 4:46; αἷμα, Jo 19:34, He 9:19, I Jo 5:6, 8,

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

ὕδωρ, (ὕω [but ef. Curtius 8. 300]), gen. ὕδατος, τό, fr. Hom. down, Hebr. 0°, water: of the water in rivers, Mt. iii.16; Rev. xvi. 12; in wells, Jn.iv. 7; in fountains, Jas. iii. 12; Rev. viii. 10; xvi. 4; in pools, Jn. v. 3 56. [RL}, 7; of the water of the deluge, 1 Pet. iii. 20; 2 Pet. iii. 6 [W. 604 sq. (562)]; of water in any of earth’s repositories, Rev. viii. 10 sq.; xi.6; 6 ἄγγελος τῶν ὑδάτων, Rey. xvi. 5; of water as a primary element, out of and through which the world that was before the deluge arose and was compacted, 2 Pet. iii. 5. plur. τὰ ὕδατα, of the waves of the Lake of Galilee, Mt. xiv. 28 sq.; (so also the sing. τὸ ὕδωρ in Lk. viii. 25); of the waves of er vlog the sea, Rev. i. 15; xiv. 2, (on both these pass. see φωνή, 1); πολλὰ ὕδατα, many springs or fountains, Jn. iii. 23 ; fig. used of many peoples, Rev. xvii. 1, as the seer himseif explains it in vs. 15, ef.…

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

ὕδωρ. A few miscellaneous exx. should serve to illustrate this common word—P Cairo Zen III. 594671 (iii/B.c.) τὸ ὕδωρ ἀφίομεν, ‘we release the water,” PSI IV. 406%° (iii/B.c.) χαλκῖα δύο ὕδατος, 75. 429% (iii/B.c.) τὸ ὕδωρ ἐκ τῆς διώρυγος, P Bilabel 4915 (beg. ii/B.c.) ὥλκασσον (‘draw ἢ) δὲ τὴν τρ[οφὴν ἐκ τοῦ ὕδατος, P Fay 110! (A.D. 94) το[ὺ]ς é[Aat]avas τὸ δεύτερον [ὕ]δω[ρ] λουϊσ]άτωσαν, “have the olive-yards washed over a second time” (Edd.), BGU I. 2469 (ii/iii ap.) ade (2. ἁλὶ) καὶ ἄρτῳ Kal ὕδατι, P Oxy II. 2341} τ κρόκον ὕδωρ ἐπιστάξας, ‘‘drop on saffron water” (Edd.), and P Amh II. 143}? (iv/A.D.) διὰ τὴν ἀφορμὴν τοῦ ὕδατος, ‘“ because of the flow of water.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ὕδωρ (hudōr, hudatos) — water.

ὕδωρ [ῠ,

see near the end], τό, genitive ὕδατος: an Epic dialect dative ὕδει in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; later nominative ὕδος [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect οὕδωρ probably in [Refs]:—water, of any kind, but in [Refs 8th c.BC+] rarely of seawater without an epithet, ἄνεμός τε καὶ ὕ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of rivers, ὕ. Αἰσήποιο, Στυγός, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; so in Lyric poetry and Trag., ὕ, Ἀσώπιον [Refs 5th c.BC+]: frequently in plural (but only once in [Refs 8th c.BC+] the waters of Cephisus, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: spring-water, drinking-water, οἶνον ἔμισγον καὶ ὕ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὕ. πίνων a water-drinker, [Refs 5th c.BC+] water for washing the hands, see at {χεί; φέρτε χερσὶν ὕ}. [Refs 8th c.BC+] —a curse was invoked upon those who refused fire (i.e. the right to borrow burning embers) or water or to direct a traveller on his way, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅταν…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ὕδωρ

hudor

hudatos hoo'-dat-os, etc.

from the base of 5205; water (as if rainy) literally or

figuratively:--water.

see GREEK for 5205

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ὕδωρ, ὕδατος, τό

n.n.

water

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ὕδωρ hydōr 76x

water, Mt. 3:11, 16; 14:28, 29; 17:15; Jn. 5:3, 4, 7; watery fluid, Jn. 19:34; ὕδωρ ζῶν, living water, fresh flowing water, Jn. 4:11; met. of spiritual refreshment, Jn. 4:10; 7:38

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ὕδωρ epic also ὕδει as if from ὕδος water, of any kind, but in Hom. rarely of sea-water (which he calls ἁλμυρὸν ὕδωρ); — also in pl., ὕδατ᾽ αἰενάοντα Od.; ὕδατα Καφίσια the waters of Cephisos, Pind.:— ὕδωρ κατὰ χειρός water for washing the hands, Ar.; ὕ. ἐπὶ χεῖρας ἔχευαν Hom.—Proverbs., γράφειν τι εἰς ὕδωρ of anything untrustworthy, Soph.; ἐν ὕδατι γρ. Plat.; ὅταν τὸ ὕδωρ πνίγῃ, τί δεῖ ἐπιπίνειν; if water chokes, what more can be done? of a desperate case, Arist.

rain-water, rain, Il., Hdt., attic;—more definitely, ὕδωρ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ Thuc., etc.; Ζεὺς ὕδωρ ὕει, ὁ θεὸς ὕδωρ ποιεῖ Ar.

for the phrase ἐν ὕδατι βρέχεσθαι, Hdt., v. βρέχω.

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

N-GSN Part of Speech: Noun Case: Genitive Number: Singular Gender: Neuter

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

wo'-ter (mayim; hudor):

(1) The Greek philosophers believed water to be the original substance and that all things were made from it. The Koran states, "From water we have made all things." In the story of the creation (Ge 1:2) water plays an elemental part.

(2) Because of the scarcity of water in Palestine it is especially appreciated by the people there. They love to go and sit by a stream of running water. Men long for a taste of the water of their native village (1Ch 11:17). A town or village is known throughout the country for the quality of its water, which is described by many adjectives, such as "light," "heavy," etc.

(3) The rainfall is the only source of supply of water for Palestine. The moisture is carried up from the sea in clouds and falls on the hills as rain or snow.…

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

See CISTERN and WELLS.

In Isa 35:7, the Hebrew word for "parched ground" that shall become a pool of water, is the same with the Arabic term for the mirage, a peculiar optical illusion by which travelers in hot and dry deserts think they see broad lakes and flowing waters; they seem to discern the very ripple of the waves, and the swaying of tail trees on the margin in the cool breeze; green hills and houses and city ramparts rise before the astonished sight, recede as the traveler advances, and at length melt away in the hot haze. Not so the blessings of the gospel; they are no alluring mockery, but real waters of everlasting life, Isa 55:1 Joh 4:14 Re 22:1. Compare

Nave's Topical Bible

→ Creation of Ps 148:4,5

→ Covered the whole earth Ge 1:9

→ Daily allowance of Eze 4:11

→ City waterworks 2Ki 20:20

→ Vision of, by Ezekiel Eze 47:1-5

→ Of separation Nu 19:2-22

→ Libation of 1Sa 7:6

→ Irrigation with

See IRRIGATION

→ Miraculously supplied

To the Israelites Ex 17:1,6; Nu 20:11

To Samson Jud 15:19

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

- One of the elements of the world

Ge 1:2

- GOD ORIGINALLY

. Created the firmament to divide

Ge 1:6,7

. Collected into one place

Ge 1:9

. Created fowls and fishes, &c from

Ge 1:20,21

- Necessary to vegetation

Ge 2:5,6; Job 14:9; Isa 1:30

- Some plants particularly require

Job 8:11

- Necessary to the comfort and happiness of man

Isa 41:17; Zec 9:11

- COLLECTED IN

. Springs

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
79%water
water79% · 63×waters21% · 17×

80 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.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial52%object27%subject17%predicate3%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 79 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
ἐκἐνἐπί
ἐν
βαπτίζωI dip, submerge,ἐγώ
πηγήa fountain, spring,
αὐτόςζωήlifeκαίand, even, also,
διά
διασῴζωI save, bring saκαίand, even, also,ἔρχομαιI come, go
φωνήa sound, noise, voic
ὡςas, like as, how
ὕδωρwater79×
what comes after →
καίand, even, also, nam
ὁράωI see, look uponἔρχομαιI come, goπαύωI cause to cease
πολύςmuch, many, often
καίand, even, also,εἰμίI am, exist
Article the
ζάωI liveοὖνtherefore, thenτέDisj
εἰς
μετάνοιαrepentance, a chArticle theἄψινθοςwormwood
ὅς
ἐγώδίδωμιI offer, giveὁράωI see, look upon

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

Concordanceὕδωρ · 79× in the New Testament
John Revelation Acts Matthew Luke Mark 1 John 2 Peter Hebrews 1 Peter Ephesians James
Across the New Testament12 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 373 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 The Shepherd of Hermas The Epistle of Barnabas The Didache
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 29c. AD 40

εἶθ’ ὕδατος ἀσώματον οὐσίαν καὶ πνεύματος καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ἑβδόμου φωτός, ὃ πάλιν ἀσώματον ἦν καὶ νοητὸν ἡλίου παράδειγμα καὶ πάντων ὅσα φωσφόρα ἄστρα κατὰ τὸν οὐρανὸν ἔμελλε συνίστασθαι.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.70c. AD 75–95

ὑπὲρ δὲ τοῦ μὴ διαφυγεῖν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους τὰ ηὑρημένα μηδὲ πρὶν εἰς γνῶσιν ἐλθεῖν φθαρῆναι, προειρηκότος ἀφανισμὸν Ἀδάμου τῶν ὅλων ἔσεσθαι τὸν μὲν κατʼ ἰσχὺν πυρὸς τὸν ἕτερον δὲ κατὰ βίαν καὶ πλῆθος ὕδατος, στήλας δύο ποιησάμενοι τὴν μὲν ἐκ πλίνθου…

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 11.1c. AD 100

Ζητήσωμεν δέ, εἰ ἐμέλησεν τῷ κυρίῳ προφανερῶσαι περὶ τοῦ ὕδατος καὶ περὶ τοῦ σταυροῦ.

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. BC 3rd c. AD 1st c. AD 4th c. AD
P.Edg. $1Arsinoites276 BC–227 BC

τε μελίσσεια ἀπολέσθαι καὶ τὸν φόρον διαπεσεῖν. καὶ νῦν διαμαρτύρονται οἱ γεωργοὶ διότι, τὸ ὕδωρ ἀφίεμεν καὶ τὰ ξύλα ἐμπυρίζομεν. ἐὰν οὖν μὴ ἄρητε αὐτά, ἀπολεῖτε. δεόμεθα οὖν σου,

P.Cair. Zen. 4 59703276 BC–227 BC

νεῖ ἡμιωβέλιον γάλα ἡμιωβέλιον … … εὔζωμον … … ὀβολὸς βαλανεῖ … … ἡμιωβέλιον ὕδωρ ταῖς παιδίσκαις … … ἄρτους διώβολον γάλα ἡμιωβέλιον … … τωνι ὀβολὸς σίναπυ χαλκοῖ

P.Cair. Zen. 4 59704276 BC–227 BC

ἄρακοι ὀβολὸν γίνεται δραχμὴ α ἡμιωβέλιον ιε Ἀπολλωνίωι ῥαφάνια ὀβολοῦ τέταρτον κράμβη ὀβολοῦ τέταρτον ὕδωρ θερμὸν χαλκοῦς 1 βαλανεῖ ὀβολοῦ τέταρτον Σπίνθηρι ὀβολοὺς δ 𐅵 βαλανεῖ Ζήνωνος ὀβολοῦ τέταρτον

In these were lying a multitude great of those ailing, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for <the> of the water motion.
κίνησιν.kinēsis motion. G2796 Noun · accusative · singular · feminine
1× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in John than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Tyndale gloss
motion
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

κίνησις, -εως, ἡ

(< κινέω),

[in LXX: Jb 16:6 (5), (נִיד), al.;]

a moving: Jo 5:[3].†

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

κίνησις, -ews, 7, (κινέω), [fr. Plato on], α moving, agitation: τοῦ ὕδατος, Jn. v. 8 [ἢ 1,1.

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

κίνησις occurs with reference to the Jewish sedition in Syria (A.D. 132-5) in OGZS 543% διὰ τὴν κίνησιν τὴν Ιουδαϊκήν. Cf. also Wiinsch 4F 4°8 (iii/a.p.) ὁρκίζω oe τὸν θεὸν τὸν Χαρισάμενον τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τὴν διὰ τῶν ἄρθρων κείνησιν, and see the late P Mon I. 6“ (a.p. 583).

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

κίνησις (kinēsis) — motion.

κίνησις [ῑ], εως, ἡ,

motion, opposed to rest (στάσις), [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἠρεμία, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

2. in Cyrenaic philosophical, λεία κ., ={ἡδονή}, τραχεῖα κ., ={πόνος}, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; αἱ κ. αἱ ἀνθρωπικαί human emotions, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

3. dance, Ἄρεος κίνασις (sic) [Refs 7th c.BC+]

4. movement, in a political sense, ἐν κ. εἶναι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ κ. ἡ Ἰουδαϊκή the Jewish revolt, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of the Peloponn. war, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

5. change, revolution, κινήσεις πολιτείας [Refs 4th c.BC+]

6. movement of an army, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]

6. b removal, change of abode, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

7. Grammars, inflexion, τοῦ ζῆμι κ. οὐχ εὕρηται [Refs]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

κίνησις εως ἡ

kinesis

from 2795; a stirring:--moving.

see GREEK for 2795

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

κίνησις, εως, ἡ

n.f.

a moving, stirring

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

κίνησις κί_νησις, εως κινέω movement, motion, Plat., etc.: a dance, Luc.

movement, in a political sense, Thuc.; of the Peloponn. war, id. Thuc.

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
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

mo'-shun: In 2 Esdras 6:14, the King James Version "motion" represents the Latin commotio, "commotion," "disturbance" (the Revised Version (British and American) has revised entirely here). In Ro 7:5, "the motions of sins, which were by the law," "motion" is used in the sense of "impulse," and "impulses" would probably give the best translation. But the Greek noun (pathemata) is hard to translate exactly, and the Revised Version (British and American) has preferred "passions," as in Ga 5:24. Sanday (ICC) paraphrases "the impressions of sense, suggestive of sin, stimulated into perverse activity by their legal prohibition." See PASSION. "Motion" is found also in The Wisdom of Solomon 5:11 (the King James Version and the Revised Version margin) and The Wisdom of Solomon 7:24 (the…

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
100%motion
motion100% · 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.

Concordanceκίνησις · 1× in the New Testament
John
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 26c. AD 40

ἐπεὶ γὰρ διάστημα τῆς τοῦ κόσμου κινήσεώς ἐστιν ὁ χρόνος, προτέρα δὲ τοῦ κινουμένου κίνησις οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο, ἀλλ’ ἀναγκαῖον αὐτὴν ἢ ὕστερον ἢ ἅμα συνίστασθαι, ἀναγκαῖον ἄρα καὶ τὸν χρόνον ἢ ἰσήλικα κόσμου γεγονέναι ἢ νεώτερον ἐκείνου·

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 3.62c. AD 75–95

καὶ προϊὼν κατʼ ὀλίγον ἐν τριμήνῳ μετὰ τὴν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου κίνησιν παρῆν ἐπὶ τὸ Σιναῖον ὄρος, ἐν ᾧ τά τε περὶ τὸν θάμνον αὐτῷ καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ φαντάσματα συντυχεῖν προειρήκαμεν.

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 2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 7th c. AD
P.Oxy. 4 729OxyrhynchosAD 138

ἀρεσκείαν τοῦ Σαραπίωνος καὶ τὴν τοῦ κατὰ τὸν Σαραπίωνα οἴνου μεταφορὰν ἀπὸ τῆς … κίνησιν καὶ παραφυλακὴν ἐφʼ ὅσον ἐν ἡλιαστηρίῳ ἀπόκεινται, ἔτι δὲ καὶ οἱ αὐτοὶ μεμισθωμένοι ὑπολείψουσι

P.Oxy. 43 3140OxyrhynchosAD 201–AD 400

καὶ οὕτως ἐν δευτέρῳ θέμενος τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν νόμων κίνησιν ἐπιβὰς ἐποικίῳ Τβὼ λῃστρικῷ τρόπῳ χαμουλκοῦ ἡμετέρου μετὰ καὶ ἄλλων σκευῶν ἀποκιμένου ἐκεῖσε ἀπʼ

PapCongr. XXVI (Geneva 2010) p. 349-356Schreibort: Herakleopolis ? (Herakleopolites); Fundort: Pelusium ?AD 343

παρόντα … σήμερον γραφῆς λειτουργῶν διαφέρον οὐκ ἀθλη … τῆς σῆς διασημοτάτης ἡγεμονίας τὴν κίνησιν οὕτως ὠμῶς κ … … … θρίαν οὐκ ὀκνήσει μοι κατ’ αὐτῶν. ἠπείχθην

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