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Biblical Word Studies

Hebrew and Greek word studies shaped for Scripture readers, teachers, and careful proclamation.

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Biblical Word Studies

Word Studies

These entries bring meaning, canonical usage, teaching notes, and reader-facing guardrails together for study and proclamation.

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GreekG4071

A Bird or Winged Creature

πετεινόνpeteinón

G4071 is an adjective meaning winged or flying that functions substantivally in the New Testament for birds or winged creatures. Birds appear in Jesus' teaching as recipients of the Father's provision, agents within seed parables, creatures with...

Teaching OpensG4071 opens teaching on providence, attentive observation of creation, seed and reception, and shelter and hospitality. It also supports teaching on costly discipleship, creaturely...

  • Matt.6.26
  • Matt.13.4
  • Matt.13.32
HebrewH5061

A Blow or Affliction; A Skin Condition or Material Contamination

נֶגַעnegaʿ

H5061, neḡaʿ, is a Hebrew noun for a blow, affliction, or observable affected condition. The object and passage determine what kind of condition is in view. Genesis can use it for a plague or severe affliction. Deuteronomy can use it in legal...

Teaching OpensH5061 opens a varied biblical vocabulary for blows, afflictions, visible conditions, and material contamination. Leviticus models deliberate examination before classification while other...

  • Lev.13.2
  • Lev.13.47
  • Deut.17.8
HebrewH8641

A Contribution, Offering, Lifted Portion, Tribute, Or Set-Apart Gift

תְּרוּמָהtĕrûmāh

H8641 is a Hebrew noun for a contribution or portion lifted up and set apart, especially an offering presented for the LORD's sanctuary, priests, or holy service, though some contexts use it for tribute or an allotted district. Exodus 25:2 instructs...

Teaching OpensH8641 opens careful teaching about resources set apart for worship, shared ministry, and the support of those assigned to holy service. It brings generosity, obligation, administration, and...

  • Exod.25.2
  • Lev.7.14
  • 2Chr.31.10
GreekG3101

A Disciple, Learner, Or Follower

μαθητήςmathētḗs

G3101 is a noun for a disciple, learner, or follower associated with a teacher or movement. Its 262 governed forms occur only in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts. Most identify Jesus' disciples, sometimes the Twelve and sometimes a wider group,...

Teaching OpensThis noun opens a Gospel-and-Acts study of following, learning, formation, allegiance, continuance, communal love, failure, and growth.

  • Matt.10.24
  • Luke.6.40
  • John.6.66
GreekG3042

A Famine, Hunger, Or Severe Food Shortage

λιμόςlimós

G3042 is a Greek noun for hunger, famine, or severe shortage of food. Acts joins a predicted famine to organized interchurch relief, Luke places famine within a vulnerable person's collapse, Romans names it as real suffering that cannot sever...

Teaching OpensG3042 opens teaching on famine relief, shared resources, vulnerability, endurance in Christ's love, prophecy, and sober eschatological watchfulness. It also helps churches hold material...

  • Acts.11.28
  • Luke.15.14
  • Rom.8.35
HebrewH6685

A Fast; Fasting; The Practice of Abstaining from Food as a Religious Act

צוֹםṣwōm

צוֹם (ṣôm) is a fast, a period of abstaining from food in a religious setting. The Hebrew texts associate fasting with grief, danger, petition, confession, repentance, public assembly, and communal memory. Esther 4 describes widespread fasting during...

Teaching OpensTsom opens teaching on embodied dependence, lament, danger, confession, repentance, justice, communal memory, truth, peace, voluntary discipline, and health-conscious pastoral care.

  • Ps.35.13
  • Esth.4.3
  • Ezra.8.21
GreekG4889

A Fellow Slave Serving the Same Master

σύνδουλοςsýndoulos

G4889, sýndoulos, is a Greek noun formed from the language of with and slave. It names a fellow slave, someone serving the same master. In Jesus' parables, the word keeps servants from imagining that entrusted authority makes their peers disposable....

Teaching OpensG4889 opens shared service under one Lord as a test of mercy, leadership, truthful reporting, coworker honor, perseverance, and worship. It asks whether servants protect and dignify peers or...

  • Matt.18.28
  • Matt.18.31
  • Matt.24.49
HebrewH8198

A Female Slave or Maidservant Within a Household

שִׁפְחָהšipĕḥāh

H8198, šipĕḥāh, is a Hebrew noun for a female slave or maidservant within a household. English versions may use servant, maidservant, slave girl, or female slave according to context, but the word often names a woman whose freedom, labor, sexuality,...

Teaching OpensH8198 opens the lives of women whom biblical households could classify by service status while God still sees, addresses, judges on behalf of, and gifts them. It leads from Hagar's exposure...

  • Gen.16.1
  • Gen.16.6
  • Lev.19.20
GreekG1350

A Fishing Net

δίκτυονdíktyon

Diktyon names a fishing net, the working equipment of fishermen in the Gospels. Matthew and Mark show Simon, Andrew, James, and John leaving or mending their nets when Jesus calls them, so the word can mark vocation surrendered to discipleship. Luke...

Teaching OpensDiktyon opens a teaching path on ordinary work surrendered to Jesus' call and redirected by His word for obedient mission.

  • Matt.4.20
  • Matt.4.21
  • Luke.5.4
GreekG2780

A Gardener, Keeper of a Garden

κηπουρόςkēpourós

G2780 names a gardener or keeper of a garden. Its only New Testament form occurs in John 20:15, where Mary Magdalene supposes that the risen Jesus is the gardener and asks whether he has carried Jesus's body away. John 19:41 has already located the...

Teaching OpensThis word opens a teaching doorway on personal recognition of the risen Christ: Mary's honest mistake, taking Jesus for the gardener, dissolves the instant he speaks her name, showing that...

  • John.20.15
  • John.20.16
  • John.19.41
GreekG2232

A Governor, Ruler, Leader, Or Commander

ἡγεμώνhēgemṓn

G2232 is a Greek noun for one who leads or governs, including a commander, provincial governor, or ruler. Matthew uses it for the promised shepherd-ruler, for Pilate's civil office, and for authorities before whom disciples will testify; 1 Peter...

Teaching OpensG2232 opens teaching on delegated authority, civil government, shepherd-like leadership, public order, conscience, and testimony under pressure. It also helps readers evaluate rulers by...

  • Matt.2.6
  • Matt.27.2
  • 1Pet.2.14
GreekG3595

A Guide or One Who Leads Along a Way

ὁδηγόςhodēgós

G3595, hodēgós, is a Greek noun for a guide, a person who leads others along a way or directs them toward a destination. The New Testament uses it five times, and each setting asks readers to evaluate not merely the guide's position but the way,...

Teaching OpensHodēgós opens the moral responsibility carried by anyone who directs another person's belief, conscience, or action. It asks a congregation to examine destination, doctrine, character,...

  • Matt.15.14
  • Matt.23.16
  • Matt.23.24
GreekG3610

A Household Servant or Enslaved Domestic Worker

οἰκέτηςoikétēs

G3610, oikétēs, is a Greek noun for a household servant or an enslaved domestic worker. The term belongs to the social world of ancient households, where people could live under another person's legal and economic power. It should not be softened...

Teaching OpensG3610 opens a sober account of household service under unequal power, including faithful stewardship, economic allegiance, trusted participation, belonging to the Lord, and unjust suffering...

  • Matt.24.45
  • Luke.16.13
  • Acts.10.7
GreekG444

A Human Being, Person, Or Man in Context

ἄνθρωποςánthrōpos

Ἄνθρωπος is a common Greek noun for a human being or person. Depending on number, grammar, and referent, it may denote an individual, people generally, a male person, humanity, Adam, Christ in His true humanity, or the title "Son of Man" as part of a...

Teaching OpensThis word opens a teaching path on the many ways Scripture names human persons, humanity before God, the Adam and Christ comparison, and the true humanity of the one mediator.

  • Matt.4.4
  • John.19.5
  • Rom.5.12
GreekG968

A Judgment Seat or Tribunal Platform

βῆμαbēma

Bema names a raised seat, platform, or tribunal place where a ruler or judge sits to render decisions. In the Gospels, Pilate sits on the judgment seat while Jesus, the innocent one, is judged by human authority. In Acts, local and imperial tribunals...

Teaching OpensThis word opens a study of judgment seats: human tribunals may misjudge or protect, but God and Christ will finally judge with righteousness.

  • Matt.27.19
  • John.19.13
  • Acts.18.12
GreekG3088

A Lamp That Gives Light

λύχνοςlýchnos

G3088 names a lamp, a portable source of light used to illuminate a room, guide attention, or symbolize the witness that makes something visible. Jesus uses the lamp in household teaching: a lamp is not lit to be hidden under a basket or bed but...

Teaching OpensThis noun opens a teaching path into visible witness, household service, readiness, prophetic attention, temporary human ministry, and the final illumination of God and the Lamb. It helps...

  • Matt.5.15
  • Luke.8.16
  • Luke.12.35
GreekG5579

A Lie, Falsehood, Or What Stands Against Truth

ψεῦδοςpseûdos

G5579, pseûdos, is a Greek noun for a lie or falsehood. It appears in Jesus' description of the devil as the father of lies, Paul's account of exchanging God's truth for a lie, the command to put off falsehood because believers belong to one another,...

Teaching OpensG5579 opens teaching on lies as content, allegiance, neighbor-harm, counterfeit spiritual power, practiced deception, and truth under the Lamb's reign. It helps communities build accuracy...

  • John.8.44
  • Rom.1.25
  • Eph.4.25
GreekG3012

A Linen Towel

λέντιονléntion

G3012 is the noun for the towel in John 13:4-5. The governed witness has only two forms: Jesus wraps the towel around His waist after rising from supper and laying aside His outer garments, then uses that same towel to dry the disciples' feet as He...

Teaching OpensThis noun opens a close reading of the two concrete towel actions in John 13:4-5 before the surrounding discourse supplies their meaning.

  • John.13.4
  • John.13.5
GreekG435

A Man; A Husband; An Adult Male

ἀνήρanḗr

ἀνήρ names a man or husband, with context deciding whether the emphasis is adult male identity, marital relation, public address, or household credibility. In the Pastoral Epistles, the word appears in settings that require sober interpretation: men...

Teaching OpensThis word opens teaching on men and husbands under holy worship, marital faithfulness, household credibility, and the public witness of the church.

  • 1Tim.2.8
  • 1Tim.2.12
  • 1Tim.3.2
GreekG3358

A Measure or Measured Amount

μέτρονmétron

Metron is the Greek noun for a measure, a measured amount, or a measuring standard. The word can be literal, as when Revelation describes a measuring rod for the city, but the New Testament often uses it to expose how people judge, receive, grow, and...

Teaching OpensMetron opens a teaching path into God's standards for judgment, gifting, and maturity. It helps readers see that the church is not measured by pride, comparison, or self-invented scales, but...

  • Matt.7.2
  • John.3.34
  • Rom.12.3
GreekG5506

A Military Commander or Officer

χιλίαρχοςchilíarchos

Chiliarchos names a military commander or officer, often a Roman commander in narrative settings. The word is not a theological title for spiritual leadership, and it should not be inflated beyond its narrative role. In John 18, a commander stands...

Teaching OpensThis word opens a study of official military authority in the narratives of Jesus and Paul. It helps readers see civil order, coercive power, and providence without romanticizing empire....

  • John.18.12
  • Acts.21.31
  • Acts.22.24
GreekG2773

A Moneychanger

κερματιστήςkermatistḗs

κερματιστής names a moneychanger. In John 2:14 the moneychangers are seated in the temple scene Jesus confronts. The word should be handled as a setting term, not as a standalone accusation against every exchange of money. John uses it to identify...

Teaching OpensThis word opens the temple-cleansing scene as a public challenge to commercial occupation of worship space.

  • John.2.14
GreekG3376

A Month or Measured Interval of Months

μήνmḗn

G3376, mḗn, is the Greek masculine noun for a month or for months counted as a span. It is a calendar and duration word, not the Greek noun for an appointed opportunity, the general flow of time, or a year. Its grammatical forms can locate an event...

Teaching Opensmḗn opens teaching on the month as a modest but useful unit of sequence and duration in family stories, sustained ministry, calendar observance, apocalyptic judgment, and new-creation...

  • Luke.1.26
  • Acts.19.8
  • Gal.4.10
HebrewH5971

A People; Nation; Congregation; Troops

עַםam

עַם (ʿam) is a high-frequency Hebrew noun for a people, kinspeople, community, nation, congregation, or body of troops. Genesis 11:6 describes Babel's builders as one people with one language, and Genesis 17:14 speaks of a person cut off from...

Teaching OpensʿAm opens teaching on collective identity, oppression, deliverance, covenant belonging, communal holiness, shepherd leadership, all-peoples praise, judgment, and restoration.

  • Exod.1.9
  • Exod.3.7
  • Exod.6.7
HebrewH8451

A Precept or Statute , Especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch

תּוֹרָהtôrāh

תּוֹרָה (torah) can name instruction, a particular ruling, priestly teaching, the law associated with Moses, or the Torah as a recognized body of Scripture. Context determines the scope. The noun should not be defined only from a proposed connection...

Teaching OpensTorah opens Scripture's presentation of God's instruction as covenant gift, wisdom for life, prophetic standard, and written witness that Christians receive through Christ's fulfillment.

  • Deut.33.4
  • Ps.119.97
  • Isa.2.3
GreekG5568

A Psalm, Sacred Song, Or Scriptural Song of Praise and Prayer

ψαλμόςpsalmós

G5568 is a Greek noun for a psalm or sacred song, often connected with the scriptural Psalms and with song offered in gathered worship. Colossians 3:16 calls believers to let Christ's word dwell richly among them as they teach and admonish one...

Teaching OpensG5568 opens sacred song as Scripture-shaped praise, lament, prayer, wisdom, remembrance, admonition, and shared participation. It connects musical expression to truth, gratitude, Christ, and...

  • Col.3.16
  • 1Cor.14.26
  • Luke.24.44
GreekG3046

A Roman Pound or Measured Pound

λίτραlítra

G3046 is a noun for a Roman pound or measured pound. Its two governed forms occur in John's Gospel. John 12:3 names the measured amount of pure nard Mary uses to anoint Jesus' feet, rendered by the BSB as about a pint. John 19:39 uses the plural...

Teaching OpensThis noun opens close reading of two measured quantities in John's anointing and burial narratives.

  • John.12.3
  • John.19.39
GreekG3789

A Serpent or Snake

ὄφιςóphis

Ophis means a snake or serpent. The New Testament uses the word in literal, proverbial, accusatory, typological, and warning contexts. Jesus can mention a snake as the opposite of a father's good gift, use snake-like shrewdness in mission...

Teaching OpensOphis opens a teaching path on danger, deception, wise mission, and the surprising way John uses the lifted serpent to point toward the lifted Son of Man.

  • Matt.7.10
  • Matt.10.16
  • Matt.23.33
HebrewH226

A Signal (Literally or Figuratively), As a Flag , Beacon , Monument , Omen , Prodigy , Evidence , Etc.

אוֹתʾôt

אוֹת is the Hebrew word for a sign — but the English word 'sign' carries far less weight than the original. In the OT, an אוֹת is not merely an indicator or symbol; it is a divinely appointed token that establishes a covenant, confirms a prophetic...

Teaching OpensOth shows how God attaches his promises to concrete signs his people can see, remember, and keep. The rainbow, circumcision, Sabbath, prophetic signs, and New Testament sign theology help...

  • Gen.9.12
  • Exod.31.13
  • Isa.7.14
HebrewH7892

A Song or Singing

שִׁיר

H7892 is a Hebrew noun for a song or for singing understood as a formed expression. A song can preserve words so that a community remembers them, repeats them, and hands them to another generation. The song at the sea recounts the LORD's deliverance....

Teaching OpensH7892 opens song as a durable vessel of communal memory, doctrine, prayer, lament, warning, testimony, and love. It helps readers ask what a song preserves and what kind of people its...

  • Exod.15.1
  • Deut.31.19
  • Ps.40.3

Original-Language Forms

Verse Form Guides

Verse guides connect an original-language word, verse reference, and morphology label to a focused explanation of what the form can and cannot support.

Language
Book
Letter

Showing 30 of 1,914 forms across 560 words and 111 chapters

1 Chronicles 16:35H6908

To Grasp

וְקַבְּצֵ֥נוּwə·qab·bə·ṣê·nū

Form
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular | first person common plural
Lemma
קָבַץ
Gloss
to grasp , i.e. collect
Book
1 Chronicles
1 Chronicles 29:12H1431

To Be

לְגַדֵּ֥לlə·ḡad·dêl

Form
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Lemma
גָּדַל
Gloss
to be (causatively make ) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride)
Book
1 Chronicles
1 Samuel 17:28H1696

Perhaps Properly

בְּדַבְּר֖וֹbə·ḏab·bə·rōw

Form
Preposition-b | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Lemma
דָבַר
Gloss
perhaps properly, to arrange ; but used figuratively (of words), to speak ; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
Book
1 Samuel
1 Samuel 17:51H4191

To Die

וַיְמֹ֣תְתֵ֔הוּway·mō·ṯə·ṯê·hū

Form
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Lemma
מוּת
Gloss
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
Book
1 Samuel
1 Samuel 24:19H7999

To Be Safe

יְשַׁלֶּמְךָ֣yə·šal·lem·ḵā

Form
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Lemma
שָׁלַם
Gloss
to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make ) completed ; by implication, to be friendly ; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications)
Book
1 Samuel
1 Samuel 8:21H1696

Perhaps Properly

וַֽיְדַבְּרֵ֖םway·ḏab·bə·rêm

Form
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Lemma
דָבַר
Gloss
perhaps properly, to arrange ; but used figuratively (of words), to speak ; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
Book
1 Samuel
2 Kings 17:35H6680

(Intensively) to Constitute , Enjoin

וַיְצַוֵּ֣םway·ṣaw·wêm

Form
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Lemma
צָוָה
Gloss
(intensively) to constitute , enjoin
Book
2 Kings
2 Samuel 11:12H7971

To Send Away

אֲשַׁלְּחֶ֑ךָּ’ă·šal·lə·ḥe·kā

Form
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular
Lemma
שָׁלַח
Gloss
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
Book
2 Samuel
2 Samuel 11:25H2388

To Fasten Upon

וְחַזְּקֵֽהוּ׃wə·ḥaz·zə·qê·hū

Form
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Lemma
חָזַק
Gloss
to fasten upon; hence, to seize , be strong (figuratively, courageous , causatively strengthen , cure , help , repair , fortify ), obstinate ; to bind , restrain , conquer
Book
2 Samuel
2 Samuel 12:3H2421

To Live

וַיְחַיֶּ֕הָway·ḥay·ye·hā

Form
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Lemma
חָיָה
Gloss
to live , whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
Book
2 Samuel
2 Samuel 22:49H7311

To Be High Actively

תְּר֣וֹמְמֵ֔נִיtə·rō·wm·mê·nî

Form
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common singular
Lemma
רוּם
Gloss
to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
Book
2 Samuel
Daniel 1:4H3925

Properly

וּֽלֲלַמְּדָ֥םū·lă·lam·mə·ḏām

Form
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Lemma
לָמַד
Gloss
properly, to goad , i.e. (by implication) to teach (the rod being an Oriental incentive )
Book
Daniel
Deuteronomy 18:18H6680

(Intensively) to Constitute , Enjoin

אֲצַוֶּֽנּוּ׃’ă·ṣaw·wen·nū

Form
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine singular
Lemma
צָוָה
Gloss
(intensively) to constitute , enjoin
Book
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 30:1H935

To Go or Come

יָבֹ֨אוּyā·ḇō·’ū

Form
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Lemma
בּוֹא
Gloss
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
Book
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 30:12H559

To Say

לֵאמֹ֗רlê·mōr

Form
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Lemma
אָמַר
Gloss
to say (used with great latitude)
Book
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 30:13H559

To Say

לֵאמֹ֗רlê·mōr

Form
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Lemma
אָמַר
Gloss
to say (used with great latitude)
Book
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 30:16H3423

To Occupy

לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃lə·riš·tāh

Form
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
Lemma
יָרַשׁ
Gloss
to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize , to rob , to inherit ; also to expel , to impoverish , to ruin
Book
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 30:18H3423

To Occupy

לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃lə·riš·tāh

Form
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
Lemma
יָרַשׁ
Gloss
to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize , to rob , to inherit ; also to expel , to impoverish , to ruin
Book
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 30:3H6908

To Grasp

וְקִבֶּצְךָ֙wə·qib·beṣ·ḵā

Form
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Lemma
קָבַץ
Gloss
to grasp , i.e. collect
Book
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 30:4H6908

To Grasp

יְקַבֶּצְךָ֙yə·qab·beṣ·ḵā

Form
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Lemma
קָבַץ
Gloss
to grasp , i.e. collect
Book
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 32:10H5437

To Revolve

יְסֹֽבְבֶ֙נְהוּ֙yə·sō·ḇə·ḇen·hū

Form
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Lemma
סָבַב
Gloss
to revolve , surround , or border ; used in various applications, literally and figuratively
Book
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 32:46H6680

(Intensively) to Constitute , Enjoin

תְּצַוֻּם֙tə·ṣaw·wum

Form
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine plural | third person masculine plural
Lemma
צָוָה
Gloss
(intensively) to constitute , enjoin
Book
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 6:10H5414

To Give

לָ֣תֶתlā·ṯeṯ

Form
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Lemma
נָתַן
Gloss
to give , used with greatest latitude of application ( put , make , etc.)
Book
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 6:2H8104

Properly

לִ֠שְׁמֹרliš·mōr

Form
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Lemma
שָׁמַר
Gloss
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard ; generally, to protect , attend to , etc.
Book
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 6:20H7592

To Inquire

יִשְׁאָלְךָ֥yiš·’ā·lə·ḵā

Form
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Lemma
שָׁאַל
Gloss
to inquire ; by implication, to request ; by extension, to demand
Book
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 6:22H5414

To Give

וַיִּתֵּ֣ןway·yit·tên

Form
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Lemma
נָתַן
Gloss
to give , used with greatest latitude of application ( put , make , etc.)
Book
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 6:23H5414

To Give

לָ֤תֶתlā·ṯeṯ

Form
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Lemma
נָתַן
Gloss
to give , used with greatest latitude of application ( put , make , etc.)
Book
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 6:7H7901

To Lie Down

וּֽבְשָׁכְבְּךָ֖ū·ḇə·šā·ḵə·bə·ḵā

Form
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | second person masculine singular
Lemma
שָׁכַב
Gloss
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
Book
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 8:16H6031

To Depress Literally or Figuratively

עַנֹּֽתְךָ֗‘an·nō·ṯə·ḵā

Form
Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | second person masculine singular
Lemma
עָנָה
Gloss
to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
Book
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 8:2H6031

To Depress Literally or Figuratively

עַנֹּֽתְךָ֜‘an·nō·ṯə·ḵā

Form
Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | second person masculine singular
Lemma
עָנָה
Gloss
to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
Book
Deuteronomy

Greek Discourse

Verb Aspect Entry Points

These entries surface the verbs with the largest NT discourse-aspect footprint, including dominant prominence, tense, voice, and mood summaries.

Letter

30 entries

G3004Ongoing

To Say

λέγωlégō

Aspect Uses
1,307
Aspect Pattern
Ongoing 654, Participle 438, Background 151
Grammar
Indicative · Participle · Infinitive
G2036Completed

To Speak or Say (by Word or Writing)

ἔπωépō

Aspect Uses
922
Aspect Pattern
Completed 775, Subjunctive 58, Participle 39
G2192Ongoing

To Have/Be

ἔχωéchō

Aspect Uses
697
Aspect Pattern
Ongoing 296, Participle 238, Background 51
Grammar
Indicative · Participle · Infinitive
G2064Completed

To Come or Go (in a Great Variety of Applications, Literally and Figuratively)

ἔρχομαιérchomai

Aspect Uses
628
Aspect Pattern
Completed 170, Participle 156, Ongoing 131
Grammar
Indicative · Participle · Infinitive
G4160Completed

To Make or Do (in a Very Wide Application, More or Less Direct)

ποιέωpoiéō

Aspect Uses
552
Aspect Pattern
Completed 117, Ongoing 97, Participle 91
Grammar
Indicative · Infinitive · Participle
G3708Completed

By Extension, To Attend to; By Hebraism, To Experience; Passively, To Appear

ὁράωhoráō

Aspect Uses
464
Aspect Pattern
Completed 162, Participle 137, Infinitive 39
Grammar
Participle · Indicative · Infinitive
G1325Completed

To Give

δίδωμιdídōmi

Aspect Uses
412
Aspect Pattern
Completed 119, Prospective 67, Participle 45
Grammar
Indicative · Infinitive · Imperative
G191Participle

To Hear (in Various Senses)

ἀκούωakoúō

Aspect Uses
411
Aspect Pattern
Participle 133, Completed 108, Ongoing 43
Grammar
Participle · Indicative · Infinitive
G1096Completed

To Be

γίνομαιgínomai

Aspect Uses
389
Aspect Pattern
Completed 174, Participle 88, Infinitive 29
Grammar
Indicative · Subjunctive · Infinitive
G1492Resultant

To Perceive: See

εἴδωeídō

Aspect Uses
291
Aspect Pattern
Resultant 240, Participle 29, Infinitive 11
G2980Participle

To Speak

λαλέωlaléō

Aspect Uses
290
Aspect Pattern
Participle 69, Completed 53, Ongoing 52
Grammar
Indicative · Infinitive · Participle
G2983Participle

While Is More Violent, To Seize or Remove))

λαμβάνωlambánō

Aspect Uses
257
Aspect Pattern
Participle 79, Completed 69, Ongoing 30
Grammar
Participle · Infinitive · Indicative
G4100Participle

To Trust (in)

πιστεύωpisteúō

Aspect Uses
240
Aspect Pattern
Participle 77, Completed 53, Ongoing 37
Grammar
Participle · Indicative · Subjunctive
G611Completed

To Answer

ἀποκρίνομαιapokrínomai

Aspect Uses
232
Aspect Pattern
Completed 111, Participle 104, Ongoing 7
Grammar
Participle · Indicative · Imperative
G1097Ongoing

To Know

γινώσκωginṓskō

Aspect Uses
219
Aspect Pattern
Ongoing 54, Completed 44, Participle 29
Grammar
Indicative · Infinitive · Participle
G1831Completed

To Issue (Literally or Figuratively)

ἐξέρχομαιexérchomai

Aspect Uses
216
Aspect Pattern
Completed 102, Participle 64, Imperative 13
Grammar
Indicative · Participle · Imperative
G1410Ongoing

To Be Able or Possible

δύναμαιdýnamai

Aspect Uses
209
Aspect Pattern
Ongoing 134, Participle 24, Background 19
Grammar
Indicative · Infinitive · Participle
G2309Ongoing

To Will/Desire

θέλωthélō

Aspect Uses
206
Aspect Pattern
Ongoing 103, Participle 29, Subjunctive 25
Grammar
Indicative · Participle · Subjunctive
G1525Completed

To Enter (Literally or Figuratively)

εἰσέρχομαιeisérchomai

Aspect Uses
192
Aspect Pattern
Completed 59, Participle 48, Infinitive 37
Grammar
Indicative · Infinitive · Participle
G1125Resultant

To "Grave", Especially to Write; Figuratively, To Describe

γράφωgráphō

Aspect Uses
182
Aspect Pattern
Resultant 69, Completed 33, Participle 30
Grammar
Indicative · Imperative · Participle
G2147Completed

To Find (Literally or Figuratively)

εὑρίσκωheurískō

Aspect Uses
172
Aspect Pattern
Completed 71, Participle 25, Prospective 23
Grammar
Indicative · Participle · Infinitive
G4198Participle

To Travel

πορεύομαιporeúomai

Aspect Uses
150
Aspect Pattern
Participle 48, Imperative 26, Infinitive 19
Grammar
Infinitive · Participle · Imperative
G2476Participle

To Stand

ἵστημιhístēmi

Aspect Uses
148
Aspect Pattern
Participle 52, Resultant 33, Completed 30
Grammar
Indicative · Participle · Infinitive
G863Completed

To Send Forth, In Various Applications (as Follow)

ἀφίημιaphíēmi

Aspect Uses
143
Aspect Pattern
Completed 29, Imperative 28, Ongoing 20
Grammar
Indicative · Imperative · Participle
G25Participle

To Love (in a Social or Moral Sense)

ἀγαπάωagapáō

Aspect Uses
143
Aspect Pattern
Participle 37, Completed 25, Ongoing 24
Grammar
Participle · Indicative · Infinitive
G1453Completed

To Arise

ἐγείρωegeírō

Aspect Uses
141
Aspect Pattern
Completed 42, Participle 25, Imperative 19
Grammar
Indicative · Participle · Imperative
G2198Participle

To Live (Literally or Figuratively)

ζάωzáō

Aspect Uses
134
Aspect Pattern
Participle 57, Ongoing 27, Prospective 20
Grammar
Participle · Indicative · Infinitive
G1210Ongoing

To Bind (in Various Applications, Literally or Figuratively)

δέωdéō

Aspect Uses
133
Aspect Pattern
Ongoing 78, Participle 21, Completed 9
Grammar
Indicative · Participle · Imperative
G649Completed

To Send

ἀποστέλλωapostéllō

Aspect Uses
131
Aspect Pattern
Completed 68, Participle 24, Ongoing 13
Grammar
Indicative · Participle · Imperative
G991Ongoing

To Look at (Literally or Figuratively)

βλέπωblépō

Aspect Uses
127
Aspect Pattern
Ongoing 43, Participle 35, Imperative 27
Grammar
Imperative · Participle · Indicative

High-Use Terms

Source Evidence Entry Points

High-occurrence entries give a quick path into terms with visible occurrence patterns, source-word evidence, and grammar summaries across the biblical text.

Language
Letter

24 entries

GreekG3588

The (Sometimes to Be Supplied, At Others Omitted, In English Idiom)

ho

Occurrences
19,769
Grammar
Nominative · Singular · Masculine
HebrewH834, H3068, H430, H5414

Who , Which , What , That ; Also (as an Adverb and a Conjunction) When , Where , How , Because , In Order That , Etc.

אֲשֶׁר־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לָךְasher-YHWH ʾelohekha noten lakh

Grammar
Particle
HebrewH259, H3605, H4687, H3068, H6213

Properly, United , I.E. One ; Or (as an Ordinal) First

אַחַת מִכָּל־מִצְוֹת יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר לֹא תֵעָשֶׂינָהʾaḥat mikkol-miṣwōt YHWH ʾăšer lōʾ tēʿāśênāh

Grammar
Adjective
HebrewH3808, H859, H3588, H430

Not You, But God

לֹא אַתֶּם כִּי הָאֱלֹהִיםlo attem ki ha-Elohim

Grammar
Particle
HebrewH6440, H4427, H4428, H1121, H3478

Before Any King Reigned Over the Israelites

לִפְנֵי מְלָךְ־מֶלֶךְ לִבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵלlifnei melakh-melekh livnei Yisra'el

Grammar
Common noun
HebrewH5921, H3068

Above , Over , Upon , Or Against (Yet Always in This Last Relation with a Downward Aspect) in a Great Variety of Applications

עַל־יְהוָהal-YHWH

Grammar
Preposition
HebrewH776, H5414, H1121, H3478

The Earth (at Large, Or Partitively a Land )

הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר אֲנִי נֹתֵן לִבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵלha'arets asher ani noten livnei Yisra'el

Grammar
Common noun
HebrewH1, H5921, H1121

Father , In a Literal and Immediate, Or Figurative and Remote Application

אָבוֹת עַל־בָּנִיםavot ʿal-banim

Grammar
Common noun
HebrewH1121, H5921, H1

A Son (as a Builder of the Family Name), In the Widest Sense (of Literal and Figurative Relationship, Including Grandson, Subject, Nation, Quality or Condition, Etc., (Like Father or Brother), Etc.)

בָּנִים ... עַל־אָבוֹתbanim ... ʿal-avot

Grammar
Common noun
HebrewH559, H3068

As the LORD Has Said

כַּאֲשֶׁר אָמַר יְהוָהkaʾăšer ʾāmar YHWH

Grammar
Qal · Niphal · Hiphil
HebrewH3605, H5307, H5921

Properly, The Whole ; Hence, All , Any or Every (in the Singular Only, But Often in a Plural Sense)

וְכֹל אֲשֶׁר־יִפֹּל־עָלָיו מֵהֶםwĕḵol ʾăšer-yippōl-ʿālāyw mēhem

Grammar
Common noun
HebrewH1121, H3068

You Are Sons of the LORD Your God — the Foundational Covenant-Identity Declaration

בָּנִים אַתֶּם לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶםbanim atem la-YHWH Eloheikhem

Grammar
Common noun
HebrewH5921, H834

Above , Over , Upon , Or Against (Yet Always in This Last Relation with a Downward Aspect) in a Great Variety of Applications

עַל אֲשֶׁרal asher

Grammar
Preposition
HebrewH3068, H1961, H854, H3130

The LORD Was with Joseph

יְהוָה הָיָה אֶת־יוֹסֵףYHWH hayah et-Yosef

HebrewH5157, H3068, H430, H5414

To Inherit (as a (Figurative) Mode of Descent), Or (Generally) to Occupy ; Causatively, To Bequeath , Or (Generally) Distribute , Instate

תִּנְחַל ... יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵןtinchal ... YHWH eloheikha noten

Grammar
Qal · Hiphil · Hithpael
HebrewH1004, H3068, H430

The Lord's House; The Temple as the Place of Covenant Worship

בֵּית יְהוָה / בֵּית אֱלֹהֵינוּbêt YHWH / bêt ʾĕlōhênû

Grammar
Common noun
HebrewH3068, H430, H5414

(the) Self- Existent or Eternal; Jeho-Vah , Jewish National Name of God

יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵןYHWH eloheykha noten

HebrewH3605, H834, H7453

Properly, The Whole ; Hence, All , Any or Every (in the Singular Only, But Often in a Plural Sense)

כֹּל אֲשֶׁר לְרֵעֶךָkol asher lere'ekha

Grammar
Common noun
HebrewH776, H3068, H5414

The Earth (at Large, Or Partitively a Land )

הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר יְהוָה ... נֹתֵןha'arets asher YHWH ... noten

Grammar
Common noun
HebrewH3605, H834

Everyone Who; All Who

כֹּל אֲשֶׁרkol ʾăšer

Grammar
Common noun
HebrewH5869, H3605, H1004, H3478

Before the Eyes of All the House of Israel

לְעֵינֵי כָל־בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵלle-enei kol-beit Yisrael

Grammar
Common noun
HebrewH3605, H6213, H430

All That God Had Done

כָּל־אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה אֱלֹהִיםkol-asher asah Elohim

Grammar
Common noun
HebrewH6944, H1961, H3068

A Sacred Place or Thing; Rarely Abstract, Sanctity

קֹדֶשׁ תִּהְיֶה לְךָ לַיהוָהqōdesh tihyeh lekā laYHWH

Grammar
Common noun
HebrewH4428, H3605, H776

King of All the Earth

מֶלֶךְ כָּל־הָאָרֶץmelek kol-ha'arets

Grammar
Common noun